3rdn

NMR STRUCTURE OF THE N-TERMINAL DOMAIN WITH A LINKER PORTION OF ANTARCTIC EEL POUT ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN RD3, MINIMIZED AVERAGE STRUCTURE

spinqualitylabelsall models 3rdn, 1 NMR models Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3rdn is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Antarctic eel pout. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function [ANP3_RHIDE] Contributes to protect fish blood from freezing at subzero sea water temperatures. Lowers the blood freezing point. Binds to nascent ice crystals and prevents further growth (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 Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) have the unique ability to adsorb to ice and inhibit its growth. Many organisms ranging from fish to bacteria use AFPs to retard freezing or lessen the damage incurred upon freezing and thawing. The ice-binding mechanism of the long linear alpha-helical type I AFPs has been attributed to their regularly spaced polar residues matching the ice lattice along a pyramidal plane. In contrast, it is not known how globular antifreeze proteins such as type III AFP that lack repeating ice-binding residues bind to ice. Here we report the 1.25 A crystal structure of recombinant type III AFP (QAE isoform) from eel pout (Macrozoarces americanus), which reveals a remarkably flat amphipathic ice-binding site where five hydrogen-bonding atoms match two ranks of oxygens on the [1010] ice prism plane in the <0001> direction, giving high ice-binding affinity and specificity. This binding site, substantiated by the structures and properties of several ice-binding site mutants, suggests that the AFP occupies a niche in the ice surface in which it covers the basal plane while binding to the prism face. Structural basis for the binding of a globular antifreeze protein to ice.,Jia Z, DeLuca CI, Chao H, Davies PL Nature. 1996 Nov 21;384(6606):285-8. PMID:8918883 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Antifreeze protein 3D structures

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