2fdo

Crystal Structure of the Conserved Protein of Unknown Function AF2331 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus DSM 4304 Reveals a New Type of Alpha/Beta Fold

spinqualitylabelsall models 2fdo, resolution 2.40Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2fdo is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Archaeoglobus fulgidus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. NonStd Res: MSE Gene: af2331 (Archaeoglobus fulgidus) Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum, TOPSAN Publication Abstract from PubMed The structure of AF2331, a 11-kDa orphan protein of unknown function from Archaeoglobus fulgidus, was solved by Se-Met MAD to 2.4 A resolution. The structure consists of an alpha + beta fold formed by an unusual homodimer, where the two core beta-sheets are interdigitated, containing strands alternating from both subunits. The decrease in solvent-accessible surface area upon dimerization is unusually large (3960 A(2)) for a protein of its size. The percentage of the total surface area buried in the interface (41.1%) is one of the largest observed in a nonredundant set of homodimers in the PDB and is above the mean for nearly all other types of homo-oligomers. AF2331 has no sequence homologs, and no structure similar to AF2331 could be found in the PDB using the CE, TM-align, DALI, or SSM packages. The protein has been identified in Pfam 23.0 as the archetype of a new superfamily and is topologically dissimilar to all other proteins with the "3-Layer (BBA) Sandwich" fold in CATH. Therefore, we propose that AF2331 forms a novel alpha + beta fold. AF2331 contains multiple negatively charged surface clusters and is located on the same operon as the basic protein AF2330. We hypothesize that AF2331 and AF2330 may form a charge-stabilized complex in vivo, though the role of the negatively charged surface clusters is not clear. The crystal structure of the AF2331 protein from Archaeoglobus fulgidus DSM 4304 forms an unusual interdigitated dimer with a new type of alpha + beta fold.,Wang S, Kirillova O, Chruszcz M, Gront D, Zimmerman MD, Cymborowski MT, Shumilin IA, Skarina T, Gorodichtchenskaia E, Savchenko A, Edwards AM, Minor W Protein Sci. 2009 Nov;18(11):2410-9. PMID:19768810 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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