1cq2

NEUTRON STRUCTURE OF FULLY DEUTERATED SPERM WHALE MYOGLOBIN AT 2.0 ANGSTROM

spinqualitylabelsall models 1cq2, resolution 2.00Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1cq2 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Physeter catodon. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Neutron Diffraction, Resolution 2Å Ligands: DOD, HEM Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function MYG_PHYMC Serves as a reserve supply of oxygen and facilitates the movement of oxygen within muscles. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed Although hydrogens comprise half of the atoms in a protein molecule and are of great importance chemically and structurally, direct visualization of them by using crystallography is difficult. Neutron crystallography is capable of directly revealing the position of hydrogens, but its use on unlabeled samples faces certain technical difficulties: the large incoherent scattering of hydrogen results in background scattering that greatly reduces the signal to noise of the experiment. Moreover, whereas the scattering lengths of C, N, and O are positive, that of hydrogen is negative and about half the magnitude. This results in density for hydrogens being half as strong and close to the threshold of detection at 2.0-A resolution. Also, because of its opposite sign, there is a partial cancellation of the hydrogen density with that from neighboring atoms, which can lead to ambiguities in interpretation at medium resolution. These difficulties can be overcome by the use of deuterated protein, and we present here a neutron structure of fully deuterated myoglobin. The structure reveals a wealth of chemical information about the molecule, including the geometry of hydrogen bonding, states of protonation of histidines, and the location and geometry of water molecules at the surface of the protein. The structure also should be of broader interest because it will serve as a benchmark for molecular dynamics and energy minimization calculations and for comparison with NMR studies. Enhanced visibility of hydrogen atoms by neutron crystallography on fully deuterated myoglobin.,Shu F, Ramakrishnan V, Schoenborn BP Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Apr 11;97(8):3872-7. PMID:10725379 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Myoglobin 3D structures

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