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==Crystal Structure Of Sea Bream Transthyretin in complex with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Crystallized in PEG==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[6gon]] is a 4 chain structure with sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurata_aurata Aurata aurata]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=6GON OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=6GON FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><scene name='pdbligand=8PF:PENTADECAFLUOROOCTANOIC+ACID'>8PF</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=6gon FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=6gon OCA], [http://pdbe.org/6gon PDBe], [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=6gon RCSB], [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/6gon PDBsum], [http://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=6gon ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Thyroid-disrupting chemicals (TDCs) are xenobiotics that can interfere with the endocrine system and cause adverse effects in organisms and their offspring. TDCs affect both the thyroid gland and regulatory enzymes associated with thyroid hormone homeostasis. Transthyretin (TTR) is found in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of vertebrates, where it transports thyroid hormones. Here we explored the interspecies variation in TDC binding to human and fish TTR (exemplified by Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)). The in vitro binding experiments showed that TDCs bind with equal or weaker affinity to seabream TTR than to the human TTR, particular, the polar TDCs (&gt;500-fold lower affinity). Crystal structures of seabream TTR-TDC complexes revealed that all TDCs bound at the thyroid binding sites. However, amino acid substitution of Ser117 in human TTR to Thr117 in seabream prevented polar TDCs from binding deep in the hormone binding cavity, which explains their low affinity to seabream TTR. Molecular dynamics and in silico alanine scanning simulation also suggested that the protein backbone of seabream TTR is more rigid than the human one and that Thr117 provides fewer electrostatic contributions than Ser117 to ligand bindings. This provides an explanation for the weaker affinities of the ligands that rely on electrostatic interactions with Thr117. The lower affinities of TDCs to fish TTR, in particular the polar ones, could potentially lead to milder thyroid-related effects in fish.

Interspecies Variation Between Fish and Human Transthyretins in Their Binding of Thyroid-Disrupting Chemicals.,Zhang J, Grundstrom C, Brannstrom K, Iakovleva I, Lindberg M, Olofsson A, Andersson PL, Sauer-Eriksson AE Environ Sci Technol. 2018 Sep 18. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03581. PMID:30226982<ref>PMID:30226982</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Transthyretin|Transthyretin]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Aurata aurata]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Andersson, P L]]
[[Category: Grundstrom, C]]
[[Category: Olofsson, A]]
[[Category: Sauer-Eriksson, A E]]
[[Category: Zhang, J]]
[[Category: Perfluorooctanoic acid]]
[[Category: Pfoa]]
[[Category: Tdc]]
[[Category: Thyroxine disrupting chemical]]
[[Category: Transport protein]]
[[Category: Transthyretin]]