1qct | pdb_00001qct

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AN 'ELECTROSTATIC SANDWICH' MODEL FOR THE (FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-HEPARIN-FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR) DIMER

spinqualitylabelsall models 1qct Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Resources: FirstGlance, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed BACKGROUND: Fibroblastic growth factors (FGFs) are a family of cytokines involved in regulation of cell growth, differentiation and chemotaxis in a variety of tissue types. High-affinity FGF receptors (FGFRs) are transmembrane proteins that consist of three extracellular immunoglobulin-like domains, a transmembrane helix and an intracellular protein tyrosine kinase signalling domain. FGFRs are activated through ligand-dependent dimerization that allows trans-autophosphorylation of the tyrosine kinase domains. Heparin or heparin-like molecules, such as heparan sulphate proteoglycans, bind to both FGFs and FGFRs and are required for FGF signal transduction. At present no structure of the ternary complex for FGFR, FGF and heparin exists. RESULTS: We have used the type-1 interleukin-1 receptor-interleukin-1 beta complex crystal structure, in which both the ligand and the receptor are homologous to those of the FGF-FGFR pair, to identify potential interactions in the FGFR-heparin-FGF ternary complex. A key feature of the modelled complex is the 'electrostatic sandwich' that is formed between the positively charged surfaces of FGF and the receptor, with the negatively charged heparin captured in between. The ternary complex places limits on the range of likely modes of receptor dimerization: one of five different dimeric receptor complexes built from the ternary complex correlates best with the experimental data. CONCLUSIONS: The ternary complex of FGFR, FGF and heparin, derived on the basis of the homologous interleukin-1 receptor complex, is in agreement with much of the published experimental data, as is the dimeric receptor complex (FGFR-heparin-FGF)2. This work suggests that the FGF interactions seen in crystal structures, which have previously been used to predict the mode of FGF dimerization, might not be relevant to the biologically active dimeric FGFR-heparin-FGF complex. A dimeric ternary complex of FGFR [correction of FGFR1], heparin and FGF-1 leads to an 'electrostatic sandwich' model for heparin binding.,Huhtala MT, Pentikainen OT, Johnson MS Structure. 1999 Jun 15;7(6):699-709. PMID:10404599 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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