1i5i

THE C18S MUTANT OF BOVINE (GAMMA-B)-CRYSTALLIN

spinqualitylabelsall models 1i5i, resolution 2.40Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1i5i is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Bovin. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 4gcr Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function [CRGB_BOVIN] Crystallins are the dominant structural components of the vertebrate eye lens. 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 The cysteine residues of the gamma crystallins, a family of ocular lens proteins, are involved in the aggregation and phase separation of these proteins. Both these phenomena are implicated in cataract formation. We have used bovine gammaB crystallin as a model system to study the role of the individual cysteine residues in the aggregation and phase separation of the gamma crystallins. Here, we compare the thermodynamic and kinetic behavior of the recombinant wild-type protein (WT) and the Cys18 to Ser (C18S) mutant. We find that the solubilities of the two proteins are similar. The kinetics of crystallization, however, are different. The WT crystallizes slowly enough for the metastable liquid-liquid coexistence to be easily observed. C18S, on the other hand, crystallizes rapidly; the metastable coexisting liquid phases of the pure mutant do not form. Nevertheless, the coexistence curve of C18S can be determined provided that crystallization is kinetically suppressed. In this way we found that the coexistence curve coincides with that of the WT. Despite the difference in the kinetics of crystallization, the two proteins were found to have the same crystal forms and almost identical X-ray structures. Our results demonstrate that even conservative point mutations can bring about dramatic changes in the kinetics of crystallization. The implications of our findings for cataract formation and protein crystallization are discussed. Enhanced crystallization of the Cys18 to Ser mutant of bovine gammaB crystallin.,Asherie N, Pande J, Pande A, Zarutskie JA, Lomakin J, Lomakin A, Ogun O, Stern LJ, King J, Benedek GB J Mol Biol. 2001 Dec 7;314(4):663-9. PMID:11733987 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Crystallin 3D structures

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