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Serralysins are a family of metalloproteases secreted by Gram-negative bacteria into the medium in the form of inactive zymogens. Usually, all serralysin secretors have on the same operon a gene coding for a periplasmic 10-kDa protein, which is an inhibitor of the secreted protease. The recent characterization of the inhibitor of the alkaline protease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa revealed a surprisingly low dissociation constant of 4 pm, contrary to earlier studies on homologous systems, where inhibition constants in the microm range were reported. To approach a more accurate understanding, the crystal structure of the complex between inhibitor and protease from P. aeruginosa was determined at 1.74 A resolution and refined to R(free) = 0.204. The structure reported here shows clearly that the N terminus of the inhibitor forms a coordinative bond to the catalytic Zn(2+) ion with a nitrogen-zinc distance of 2.17 A. We conclude that this interaction adds substantially to the complex stability and show also that similar interactions are found in other metzincin-inhibitor complexes.

1JIW is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_complex Protein complex] structure of sequences from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas_aeruginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa] with <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=CA:'>CA</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1JIW OCA].  

[[Category: Feltzer, R E.]]

[[Category: Gray, R D.]]

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