2baf | pdb_00002baf

Bovine Fibrinogen alpha-C Domain

spinqualitylabelsall models 2baf, 20 NMR models Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2baf is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Bovin. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Gene: FGA (BOVIN) Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum Function [FIBA_BOVIN] Fibrinogen has a double function: yielding monomers that polymerize into fibrin and acting as a cofactor in platelet aggregation. 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 NMR solution structure of the bovine fibrinogen alphaC-domain fragment, including residues Aalpha374-538, reveals a type-I' beta-hairpin, restricted at the base by a C423-C453 disulfide linkage and a short turn preceding C423. Although both faces of the hairpin are formed mainly by hydrophilic residues, one of them is uncharged while the other has a characteristic pattern of charged residues which are highly conserved among vertebrate species. Chemical shift indexing and relaxation data indicate the presence of a collapsed hydrophobic region next to the hairpin that includes approximately 30 residues with slower concerted motion and higher content of nonpolar residues and, according to a previous study (Tsurupa, G., Tsonev, L., and Medved, L. (2002) Biochemistry 41, 6449-6459), may cooperate with the hairpin to form a compact cooperative unit (domain). Structure and relaxation data show that the region between C423 and C453 is populated by both random coil and beta-structure, suggesting that the cooperative structure in the isolated alphaC-domain is intrinsically unstable. This observation is in agreement with a very low energy of stabilization of the Aalpha374-538 fragment determined in unfolding experiments. The low stability of the alphaC-domain suggests a possible explanation for the previously observed intra- and intermolecular interactions of these domains in fibrinogen and fibrin. Identification of an ordered compact structure within the recombinant bovine fibrinogen alphaC-domain fragment by NMR.,Burton RA, Tsurupa G, Medved L, Tjandra N Biochemistry. 2006 Feb 21;45(7):2257-66. PMID:16475814 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Fibrinogen

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