Structural highlights
Function[BXF_CLOBO] Botulinum toxin acts by inhibiting neurotransmitter release. It binds to peripheral neuronal synapses, is internalized and moves by retrograde transport up the axon into the spinal cord where it can move between postsynaptic and presynaptic neurons. It inhibits neurotransmitter release by acting as a zinc endopeptidase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the '58-Gln-|-Lys-59' bond of synaptobrevins-1 and -2. 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 PubMedThe seven serologically distinct Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs A-G) are zinc endopeptidases which block the neurotransmitter release by cleaving one of the three proteins of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive-factor attachment protein receptor complex (SNARE complex) essential for the fusion of vesicles containing neurotransmitters with target membranes. These metallopeptidases exhibit unique specificity for the substrates and peptide bonds they cleave. Development of countermeasures and therapeutics for BoNTs is a priority because of their extreme toxicity and potential misuse as biowarfare agents. Though they share sequence homology and structural similarity, the structural information on each one of them is required to understand the mechanism of action of all of them because of their specificity. Unraveling the mechanism will help in the ultimate goal of developing inhibitors as antibotulinum drugs for the toxins. Here, we report the high-resolution structure of active BoNT/F catalytic domain in two crystal forms. The structure was exploited for modeling the substrate binding and identifying the S1' subsite and the putative exosites which are different from BoNT/A or BoNT/B. The orientation of docking of the substrate at the active site is consistent with the experimental BoNT/A-LC:SNAP-25 peptide model and our proposed model for BoNT/E-LC:SNAP-25. Structural analysis of botulinum neurotoxin serotype F light chain: implications on substrate binding and inhibitor design.,Agarwal R, Binz T, Swaminathan S Biochemistry. 2005 Sep 6;44(35):11758-65. PMID:16128577[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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