2nph

Crystal structure of HIV1 protease in situ product complex

spinqualitylabelsall models 2nph, resolution 1.65Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2nph is a 4 chain structure with sequence from 9hiv1. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 1g6l, 1lv1 Gene: pol (9HIV1) Activity: HIV-1 retropepsin, with EC number 3.4.23.16 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 HIV-1 protease is an effective target for designing drugs against AIDS, and structural information about the true transition state and the correct mechanism can provide important inputs. We present here the three-dimensional structure of a bi-product complex between HIV-1 protease and the two cleavage product peptides AETF and YVDGAA. The structure, refined against synchrotron data to 1.65 A resolution, shows the occurrence of the cleavage reaction in the crystal, with the product peptides still held in the enzyme active site. The separation between the scissile carbon and nitrogen atoms is 2.67 A, which is shorter than a normal van der Waal separation, but it is much longer than a peptide bond length. The substrate is thus in a stage just past the G'Z intermediate described in Northrop's mechanism [Northrop DB (2001) Acc Chem Res 34:790-797]. Because the products are generated in situ, the structure, by extrapolation, can give insight into the mechanism of the cleavage reaction. Both oxygens of the generated carboxyl group form hydrogen bonds with atoms at the catalytic center: one to the OD2 atom of a catalytic aspartate and the other to the scissile nitrogen atom. The latter hydrogen bond may have mediated protonation of scissile nitrogen, triggering peptide bond cleavage. The inner oxygen atoms of the catalytic aspartates in the complex are 2.30 A apart, indicating a low-barrier hydrogen bond between them at this stage of the reaction, an observation not included in Northrop's proposal. This structure forms a template for designing mechanism-based inhibitors. Crystal structure of HIV-1 protease in situ product complex and observation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond between catalytic aspartates.,Das A, Prashar V, Mahale S, Serre L, Ferrer JL, Hosur MV Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Dec 5;103(49):18464-9. Epub 2006 Nov 20. PMID:17116869 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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