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THE X-RAY CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF PPACK-MEIZOTHROMBIN DESF1: KRINGLE/THROMBIN AND CARBOHYDRATE/KRINGLE/THROMBIN INTERACTIONS AND LOCATION OF THE LINKER CHAIN

spinqualitylabelsall models 1a0h, resolution 3.20Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1a0h is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Bos taurus. The January 2002 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on Thrombin by David S. Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2002_1. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: 0G6, NAG Activity: Thrombin, with EC number 3.4.21.5 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum Function [THRB_BOVIN] Thrombin, which cleaves bonds after Arg and Lys, converts fibrinogen to fibrin and activates factors V, VII, VIII, XIII, and, in complex with thrombomodulin, protein C. Functions in blood homeostasis, inflammation and wound healing (By similarity). 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 BACKGROUND: The conversion of prothrombin to thrombin by factor Xa is the penultimate step in the blood clotting cascade. In vivo, where the conversion occurs primarily on activated platelets in association with factor Va and Ca2+ ions, meizothrombin is the major intermediate of the two step reaction. Meizothrombin rapidly loses the fragment 1 domain (F1) by autolysis to become meizothrombin des F1 (mzTBN-F1). The physiological properties of mzTBN-F1 differ dramatically from those of thrombin due to the presence of prothrombin fragment 2 (F2), which remains covalently attached to the activated thrombin domain in mzTBN-F1. RESULTS: The crystal structure of mzTBN-F1 has been determined at 3.1 A resolution by molecular replacement, using only the thrombin domain, and refined to R and Rfree values of 0.205 and 0.242, respectively. The protease active site was inhibited with D-Phe-Pro-Arg-chloromethylketone (PPACK) to reduce autolysis. The mobile linker chain connecting the so-called kringle and thrombin domains and the first two N-acetylglucosamine residues attached to the latter were seen in electron-density maps improved with the program SQUASH. Previously these regions had only been modeled. CONCLUSIONS: The F2 kringle domain in mzTBN-F1 is bound to the electropositive heparin-binding site on thrombin in an orientation that is systematically shifted and has significantly more interdomain contacts compared to a noncovalent complex of free F2 and free thrombin. F2 in mzTBN-F1 forms novel hydrogen bonds to the carbohydrate chain of thrombin and perhaps stabilizes a unique, rigid conformation of the gamma-autolysis loop through non-local effects. The F2 linker chain, which does not interfere with the active site or fibrinogen-recognition site, is arranged so that the two sites cleaved by factor Xa are separated by 36 A. The two mzTBN-F1 molecules in the asymmetric unit share a tight 'dimer' contact in which the active site of one molecule is partially blocked by the F2 kringle domain of its partner. This interaction suggests a new model for prothrombin organization. New insights into the regulation of the blood clotting cascade derived from the X-ray crystal structure of bovine meizothrombin des F1 in complex with PPACK.,Martin PD, Malkowski MG, Box J, Esmon CT, Edwards BF Structure. 1997 Dec 15;5(12):1681-93. PMID:9438869 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Thrombin

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