1aex

STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE, METHANE THIOL DISULFIDE TO V23C VARIANT

spinqualitylabelsall models 1aex, resolution 2.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1aex is a 1 chain structure. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CA, THP NonStd Res: SCH Activity: Micrococcal nuclease, with EC number 3.1.31.1 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function [NUC_STAAU] Enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of both DNA and RNA at the 5' position of the phosphodiester bond. 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 The structures of several variants of staphylococcal nuclease with long flexible unnatural amino acid side chains in the hydrophobic core have been determined by X-ray crystallography. The unnatural amino acids are disulfide moieties between the lone cysteine residue in V23C nuclease and methane, ethane, 1-n-propane, 1-n-butane, 1-n-pentane, and 2-hydroxyethyl thiols. We have examined changes in the core packing of these mutants. Side chains as large as the 1-n-propyl cysteine disulfide can be incorporated without perturbation of the structure. This is due, in part, to cavities present in the wild-type protein. The longest side chains are not well defined, even though they remain buried within the protein interior. These results suggest that the enthalpy-entropy balance that governs the rigidity of protein interiors favors tight packing only weakly. Additionally, the tight packing observed normally in protein interiors may reflect, in part, the limited numbers of rotamers available to the natural amino acids. Mobile unnatural amino acid side chains in the core of staphylococcal nuclease.,Wynn R, Harkins PC, Richards FM, Fox RO Protein Sci. 1996 Jun;5(6):1026-31. PMID:8762134 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Staphylococcal nuclease

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