3zhc

Structure of the phytase from Citrobacter braakii at 2.3 angstrom resolution.

spinqualitylabelsall models 3zhc, resolution 2.30Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3zhc is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Atcc 51113. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CL, FMT Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed The impact of disulfide bonds on protein stability goes beyond simple equilibrium thermodynamics effects associated with the conformational entropy of the unfolded state. Indeed, disulfide crosslinks may play a role in the prevention of dysfunctional association and strongly affect the rates of irreversible enzyme inactivation, highly relevant in biotechnological applications. While these kinetic-stability effects remain poorly understood, by analogy with proposed mechanisms for processes of protein aggregation and fibrillogenesis, we propose that they may be determined by the properties of sparsely-populated, partially-unfolded intermediates. Here we report the successful design, on the basis of high temperature molecular-dynamics simulations, of six thermodynamically and kinetically stabilized variants of phytase from Citrobacter braakii (a biotechnologically important enzyme) with one, two or three engineered disulfides. Activity measurements and 3D crystal structure determination demonstrate that the engineered crosslinks do not cause dramatic alterations in the native structure. The inactivation kinetics for all the variants displays a strongly non-Arrhenius temperature dependence, with the time-scale for the irreversible denaturation process reaching a minimum at a given temperature within the range of the denaturation transition. We show this striking feature to be a signature of a key role played by a partially unfolded, intermediate state/ensemble. Energetic and mutational analyses confirm that the intermediate is highly unfolded (akin to a proposed critical intermediate in the misfolding of the prion protein), a result that explains the observed kinetic stabilization. Our results provide a rationale for the kinetic-stability consequences of disulfide-crosslink engineering and an experimental methodology to arrive at energetic/structural descriptions of the sparsely populated and elusive intermediates that play key roles in irreversible protein denaturation. Mechanism of protein kinetic stabilization by engineered disulfide crosslinks.,Sanchez-Romero I, Ariza A, Wilson KS, Skjot M, Vind J, De Maria L, Skov LK, Sanchez-Ruiz JM PLoS One. 2013 Jul 30;8(7):e70013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070013. Print 2013. PMID:23936134 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Phytase 3D structures

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