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CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF DSRED, A RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN FROM DISCOSOMA SP. REDCRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF DSRED, A RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN FROM DISCOSOMA SP. RED

Structural highlights 1g7k is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Discosoma sp.. The June 2014 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on GFP-like Proteins by David Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2014_6. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2Å Ligands: , Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function RFP_DISSP Thought to play a role in photoprotection of the coral's resident symbiont microalgae's photosystems from photoinhibition caused by high light levels found near the surface of coral reefs. In deeper water, the fluorescence may be to convert blue light into longer wavelengths more suitable for use in photosynthesis by the microalgal symbionts. 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 crystal structure of DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from a corallimorpharian, has been determined at 2.0-A resolution by multiple-wavelength anomalous dispersion and crystallographic refinement. Crystals of the selenomethionine-substituted protein have space group P2(1) and contain a tetramer with 222 noncrystallographic symmetry in the asymmetric unit. The refined model has satisfactory stereochemistry and a final crystallographic R factor of 0.162. The protein, which forms an obligatory tetramer in solution and in the crystal, is a squat rectangular prism comprising four protomers whose fold is extremely similar to that of the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein despite low ( approximately 23%) amino acid sequence homology. The monomer consists of an 11-stranded beta barrel with a coaxial helix. The chromophores, formed from the primary sequence -Gln-Tyr-Gly- (residues 66-68), are arranged in a approximately 27 x 34-A rectangular array in two approximately antiparallel pairs. The geometry at the alpha carbon of Gln-66 (refined without stereochemical restraints) is consistent with an sp(2) hybridized center, in accord with the proposal that red fluorescence is because of an additional oxidation step that forms an acylimine extension to the chromophore [Gross, L. A., Baird, G. S., Hoffman, R. C., Baldridge, K. K. & Tsien, R. Y. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87, 11990-11995]. The carbonyl oxygen of Phe-65 is almost 90 degrees out of the plane of the chromophore, consistent with theoretical calculations suggesting that this is the minimum energy conformation of this moiety despite the conjugation of this group with the rest of the chromophore. Refined crystal structure of DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from coral, at 2.0-A resolution.,Yarbrough D, Wachter RM, Kallio K, Matz MV, Remington SJ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 16;98(2):462-7. PMID:11209050 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Green Fluorescent Protein 3D structures

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