3cwo

A beta/alpha-barrel built by the combination of fragments from different folds

spinqualitylabelsall models 3cwo, resolution 3.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3cwo is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Atcc 43589. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: SO4 Related: 1thf, 1tmy Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT 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 Combinatorial assembly of protein domains plays an important role in the evolution of proteins. There is also evidence that protein domains have come together from stable subdomains. This concept of modular assembly could be used to construct new well folded proteins from stable protein fragments. Here, we report the construction of a chimeric protein from parts of a (betaalpha)(8)-barrel enzyme from histidine biosynthesis pathway (HisF) and a protein of the (betaalpha)(5)-flavodoxin-like fold (CheY) from Thermotoga maritima that share a high structural similarity. We expected this construct to fold into a full (betaalpha)(8)-barrel. Our results show that the chimeric protein is a stable monomer that unfolds with high cooperativity. Its three-dimensional structure, which was solved to 3.1 A resolution by x-ray crystallography, confirms a barrel-like fold in which the overall structures of the parent proteins are highly conserved. The structure further reveals a ninth strand in the barrel, which is formed by residues from the HisF C terminus and an attached tag. This strand invades between beta-strand 1 and 2 of the CheY part closing a gap in the structure that might be due to a suboptimal fit between the fragments. Thus, by a combination of parts from two different folds and a small arbitrary fragment, we created a well folded and stable protein. A beta alpha-barrel built by the combination of fragments from different folds.,Bharat TA, Eisenbeis S, Zeth K, Hocker B Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Jul 22;105(29):9942-7. Epub 2008 Jul 15. PMID:18632584 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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