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Refined Crystal Structure (2.3A° ) of a Double-Headed Winged Bean a-Chymotrypsin Inhibitor and Location of Its Second Reactive Site

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Title Refined Crystal Structure (2.3A° ) of a Double-Headed Winged Bean a-Chymotrypsin Inhibitor and Location of Its Second Reactive Site
 
Creator Dattagupta, Jiban K
Podder, Aloka
Chakrabarti, Chandana
Sen, Udayaditya
Mukhopadhyay, Debashis
Dutta, Samir K
Singh, Manoranjan
 
Subject Drug Development/Diagnostics & Biotechnology
 
Description The crystal structure of a doubleheaded a-chymotrypsin inhibitor, WCI, from winged bean seeds has now been refined at 2.3A° resolution to an R-factor of 18.7% for 9,897 reflections. The crystals belong to the hexagonal space group P6122 with cell parameters a 5 b 5 61.8A° and c 5 212.8A° . The final model has a good stereochemistry and a root mean square deviation of 0.011A° and 1.14° from ideality for bond length and bond angles, respectively. A total of 109 ordered solvent molecules were localized in the structure. This improved structure at 2.3A° led to an understanding of themechanism of inhibition of the protein against a-chymotrypsin.An analysis of this higher resolution structure also helped us to predict the location of the second reactive site of the protein, about which no previous biochemical information was available. The inhibitor structure is spherical and has twelve antiparallel b-strands with connecting loops arranged in a characteristic b-trefoil fold common to other homologous serine protease inhibitors in the Kunitz (STI) family as well as to some non homologous functionally unrelated proteins. Awide variation in the surface loop regions is seen in the latter ones. Proteins 1999;35:321–331. r 1999Wiley-Liss, Inc.
 
Date 1999
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/722/1/PROTEINS%2DSTRUCTURE_FUNCTION_AND_GENETICS___35_(_3)_321%2D331;1999[53].pdf
Dattagupta, Jiban K and Podder, Aloka and Chakrabarti, Chandana and Sen, Udayaditya and Mukhopadhyay, Debashis and Dutta, Samir K and Singh, Manoranjan (1999) Refined Crystal Structure (2.3A° ) of a Double-Headed Winged Bean a-Chymotrypsin Inhibitor and Location of Its Second Reactive Site. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, 35 (2). pp. 321-331.
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(1999051535:3<321::AID-PROT6>3.0.CO;2-Y
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/722/