3ecl

Carbonmonoxy Sperm Whale Myoglobin at 40 K: Laser on

spinqualitylabelsall models 3ecl, resolution 1.21Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3ecl is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Physeter catodon. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CMO, HEM, SO4 Related: 3e4n Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum Function [MYG_PHYCA] Serves as a reserve supply of oxygen and facilitates the movement of oxygen within muscles. 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 Proteins harbor a number of cavities of relatively small volume. Although these packing defects are associated with the thermodynamic instability of the proteins, the cavities also play specific roles in controlling protein functions, e.g., ligand migration and binding. This issue has been extensively studied in a well-known protein, myoglobin (Mb). Mb reversibly binds gas ligands at the heme site buried in the protein matrix and possesses several internal cavities in which ligand molecules can reside. It is still an open question as to how a ligand finds its migration pathways between the internal cavities. Here, we report on the dynamic and sequential structural deformation of internal cavities during the ligand migration process in Mb. Our method, the continuous illumination of native carbonmonoxy Mb crystals with pulsed laser at cryogenic temperatures, has revealed that the migration of the CO molecule into each cavity induces structural changes of the amino acid residues around the cavity, which results in the expansion of the cavity with a breathing motion. The sequential motion of the ligand and the cavity suggests a self-opening mechanism of the ligand migration channel arising by induced fit, which is further supported by computational geometry analysis by the Delaunay tessellation method. This result suggests a crucial role of the breathing motion of internal cavities as a general mechanism of ligand migration in a protein matrix. Visualizing breathing motion of internal cavities in concert with ligand migration in myoglobin.,Tomita A, Sato T, Ichiyanagi K, Nozawa S, Ichikawa H, Chollet M, Kawai F, Park SY, Tsuduki T, Yamato T, Koshihara SY, Adachi SI Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Feb 9. PMID:19204297 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Myoglobin

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