STAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE, CYCLOHEXANE THIOL DISULFIDE TO V23C VARIANTSTAPHYLOCOCCAL NUCLEASE, CYCLOHEXANE THIOL DISULFIDE TO V23C VARIANT

Structural highlights

1a3u is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Staphylococcus aureus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.05Å
Ligands:, ,
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

NUC_STAAU Enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of both DNA and RNA at the 5' position of the phosphodiester bond.

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

We have determined by X-ray crystallography the structures of several variants of staphylococcal nuclease with long flexible straight chain and equivalent length cyclic unnatural amino acid side chains embedded in the protein core. The terminal atoms in the straight side chains are not well defined by the observed electron density even though they remain buried within the protein interior. We have previously observed this behavior and have suggested that it may arise from the addition of side-chain vibrational and oscillational motions with each bond as a side chain grows away from the relatively rigid protein main chain and/or the population of multiple rotamers (Wynn R, Harkins P, Richards FM. Fox RO. 1996. Mobile unnatural amino acid side chains in the core of staphylococcal nuclease. Protein Sci 5:1026-1031). Reduction of the number of degrees of freedom by cyclization of a side chain would be expected to constrain these motions. These side chains are in fact well defined in the structures described here. Over-packing of the protein core results in a 1.0 A shift of helix 1 away from the site of mutation. Additionally, we have determined the structure of a side chain containing a single hydrogen to fluorine atom replacement on a methyl group. A fluorine atom is intermediate in size between methyl group and a hydrogen atom. The fluorine atom is observed in a single position indicating it does not rotate like methyl hydrogen atoms. This change also causes subtle differences in the packing interactions.

Comparison of straight chain and cyclic unnatural amino acids embedded in the core of staphylococcal nuclease.,Wynn R, Harkins PC, Richards FM, Fox RO Protein Sci. 1997 Aug;6(8):1621-6. PMID:9260275[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

See Also

References

  1. Wynn R, Harkins PC, Richards FM, Fox RO. Comparison of straight chain and cyclic unnatural amino acids embedded in the core of staphylococcal nuclease. Protein Sci. 1997 Aug;6(8):1621-6. PMID:9260275 doi:10.1002/pro.5560060803

1a3u, resolution 2.05Å

Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate

Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors (what is this?)Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors (what is this?)

OCA