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The crystal structure of the saccharide-free form of the basic form of winged-bean agglutinin (WBAI) has been solved by the molecular-replacement method and refined at 2.3 A resolution. The final R factor is 19.7% for all data in the resolution range 8.0-2.3 A. The asymmetric unit contains two half-dimers, each located on a crystallographic twofold axis. The structure of the saccharide-free form is compared with that of the complex of WBAI with methyl-alpha-D-galactoside. The complex is composed of two dimers in the asymmetric unit. The intersubunit interactions in the dimer are nearly identical in the two structures. The binding site of the saccharide-free structure contains three ordered water molecules at positions similar to those of the hydroxyl groups of the carbohydrate which are hydrogen bonded to the protein. Superposition of the saccharide-binding sites of the two structures shows that the major changes involve expulsion of these ordered water molecules and a shift of about 0.6 A of the main-chain atoms of the variable loop.

1WBF is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psophocarpus_tetragonolobus Psophocarpus tetragonolobus] with <scene name='pdbligand=NAG:'>NAG</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MN:'>MN</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=1WBF OCA].  

[[Category: Srinivas, V R.]]

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