4a7e

X-ray crystal structure of porcine insulin flash-cooled at high pressure

spinqualitylabelsall models 4a7e, resolution 1.86Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4a7e is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Sus scrofa. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.856Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function INS_PIG Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration. It increases cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. It accelerates glycolysis, the pentose phosphate cycle, and glycogen synthesis in liver. Publication Abstract from PubMed High-pressure freezing (HPF) is a method which allows sample vitrification without cryoprotectants. In the present work, protein crystals were cooled to cryogenic temperatures at a pressure of 210 MPa. In contrast to other HPF methods published to date in the field of cryocrystallography, this protocol involves rapid sample cooling using a standard HPF device. The fast cooling rates allow HPF of protein crystals directly in their mother liquor without the need for cryoprotectants or external reagents. HPF was first attempted with hen egg-white lysozyme and cubic insulin crystals, yielding good to excellent diffraction quality. Non-cryoprotected crystals of the membrane protein photosystem II have been successfully cryocooled for the first time. This indicates that the presented HPF method is well suited to the vitrification of challenging systems with large unit cells and weak crystal contacts. Fast high-pressure freezing of protein crystals in their mother liquor.,Burkhardt A, Warmer M, Panneerselvam S, Wagner A, Zouni A, Glockner C, Reimer R, Hohenberg H, Meents A Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2012 Apr 1;68(Pt 4):495-500., Epub 2012 Mar 31. PMID:22505429 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Insulin 3D Structures

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