4kex | pdb_00004kex

Crystal structure analysis of a single amino acid deletion mutation in EGFP

spinqualitylabelsall models 4kex, resolution 1.60Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4kex is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Aequorea victoria. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.6Å Ligands: CRO Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function GFP_AEQVI Energy-transfer acceptor. Its role is to transduce the blue chemiluminescence of the protein aequorin into green fluorescent light by energy transfer. Fluoresces in vivo upon receiving energy from the Ca(2+)-activated photoprotein aequorin. Publication Abstract from PubMed Single-amino-acid deletions are a common part of the natural evolutionary landscape but are rarely sampled during protein engineering owing to limited and prejudiced molecular understanding of mutations that shorten the protein backbone. Single-amino-acid deletion variants of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) have been identified by directed evolution with the beneficial effect of imparting increased cellular fluorescence. Biophysical characterization revealed that increased functional protein production and not changes to the fluorescence parameters was the mechanism that was likely to be responsible. The structure EGFP(D190Delta) containing a deletion within a loop revealed propagated changes only after the deleted residue. The structure of EGFP(A227Delta) revealed that a `flipping' mechanism was used to adjust for residue deletion at the end of a beta-strand, with amino acids C-terminal to the deletion site repositioning to take the place of the deleted amino acid. In both variants new networks of short-range and long-range interactions are generated while maintaining the integrity of the hydrophobic core. Both deletion variants also displayed significant local and long-range changes in dynamics, as evident by changes in B factors compared with EGFP. Rather than being detrimental, deletion mutations can introduce beneficial structural effects through altering core protein properties, folding and dynamics, as well as function. Structural and dynamic changes associated with beneficial engineered single-amino-acid deletion mutations in enhanced green fluorescent protein.,Arpino JA, Rizkallah PJ, Jones DD Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2014 Aug;70(Pt 8):2152-62. doi:, 10.1107/S139900471401267X. Epub 2014 Jul 25. PMID:25084334 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Green Fluorescent Protein 3D structures

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