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BACKGROUND: Leech-derived inhibitors have a prominent role in the development of new antithrombotic drugs, because some of them are able to block the blood coagulation cascade. Hirustasin, a serine protease inhibitor from the leech Hirudo medicinalis, binds specifically to tissue kallikrein and possesses structural similarity with antistasin, a potent factor Xa inhibitor from Haementeria officinalis. Although the 2.4 A structure of the hirustasin-kallikrein complex is known, classical methods such as molecular replacement were not successful in solving the structure of free hirustasin. RESULTS: Ab initio real/reciprocal space iteration has been used to solve the structure of free hirustasin using either 1.4 A room temperature data or 1.2 A low temperature diffraction data. The structure was also solved independently from a single pseudo-symmetric gold derivative using maximum likelihood methods. A comparison of the free and complexed structures reveals that binding to kallikrein causes a hinge-bending motion between the two hirustasin subdomains. This movement is accompanied by the isomerisation of a cis proline to the trans conformation and a movement of the P3, P4 and P5 residues so that they can interact with the cognate protease. CONCLUSIONS: The inhibitors from this protein family are fairly flexible despite being highly cross-linked by disulphide bridges. This intrinsic flexibility is necessary to adopt a conformation that is recognised by the protease and to achieve an optimal fit, such observations illustrate the pitfalls of designing inhibitors based on static lock-and-key models. This work illustrates the potential of new methods of structure solution that require less or even no prior phase information.

1BX8 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis Hirudo medicinalis] with <scene name='pdbligand=SO4:'>SO4</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligand ligand]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1BX8 OCA].  

[[Category: Fortelle, E De La.]]

[[Category: Gruetter, M G.]]

[[Category: Marco, S Di.]]

[[Category: Mittl, P R.E.]]

[[Category: Priestle, J P.]]

[[Category: Sheldrick, G M.]]

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