1uun

Main porin from Mycobacterium smegmatis (MspA)

spinqualitylabelsall models 1uun, resolution 2.50Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1uun is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.5Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function MSPA_MYCS2 The major porin in this organism, forms a water-filled channel which favors the permeation of cations, amino acids, iron Fe(3+) and less efficiently phosphate. Does not transport Fe-ExoMS, the predominant siderophore. Plays a role in transport of beta-lactamase and hydrophilic fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as norfloxacin as well as chloramphenicol. There are about 2400 porins in wild-type, 800 in an mspA deletion and 150 in a double mspA-mspC deletion. Different conductance values with maxima at 2.3 and 4.6 nanosiemens might be caused by a simultaneous reconstitution of MspA channels into the membrane or by the existence of different MspA conformations. 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 Mycobacteria have low-permeability outer membranes that render them resistant to most antibiotics. Hydrophilic nutrients can enter by way of transmembrane-channel proteins called porins. An x-ray analysis of the main porin from Mycobacterium smegmatis, MspA, revealed a homooctameric goblet-like conformation with a single central channel. This is the first structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane protein. No structure-related protein was found in the Protein Data Bank. MspA contains two consecutive beta barrels with nonpolar outer surfaces that form a ribbon around the porin, which is too narrow to fit the thickness of the mycobacterial outer membrane in contemporary models. The structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane channel.,Faller M, Niederweis M, Schulz GE Science. 2004 Feb 20;303(5661):1189-92. PMID:14976314 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Porin 3D structures

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