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THE NMR STRUCTURE OF A STABLE AND COMPACT ALL-beta-SHEET VARIANT OF INTESTINAL FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINTHE NMR STRUCTURE OF A STABLE AND COMPACT ALL-beta-SHEET VARIANT OF INTESTINAL FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEIN

Structural highlights 1sa8 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Buffalo rat. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 1a57, 1ael, 1ure Gene: FABP2 (Buffalo rat) Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum Function [FABPI_RAT] FABP are thought to play a role in the intracellular transport of long-chain fatty acids and their acyl-CoA esters. FABP2 is probably involved in triglyceride-rich lipoprotein synthesis. Binds saturated long-chain fatty acids with a high affinity, but binds with a lower affinity to unsaturated long-chain fatty acids. FABP2 may also help maintain energy homeostasis by functioning as a lipid sensor (By similarity). 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 Intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) has a clam-shaped structure that may serve as a scaffold for the design of artificial enzymes and drug carriers. In an attempt to optimize the scaffold for increased access to the interior-binding cavity, several helix-less variants of I-FABP have been engineered. The solution-state NMR structure of the first generation helix-less variant, known as Delta17-SG, revealed a larger-than-expected and structurally ill-defined loop flanking the deletion site. We hypothesized that the presence of this loop, on balance, was energetically unfavorable for the stability of the protein. The structure exhibited no favorable pairwise or nonpolar interactions in the loop that could offset the loss of configurational entropy associated with the folding of this region of the protein. As an attempt to generate a more stable protein, we engineered a second-generation helix-less variant of I-FABP (Delta27-GG) by deleting 27 contiguous residues of the wild-type protein and replacing them with a G-G linker. The deletion site of this variant (D9 through N35) includes the 10 residues spanning the unstructured loop of Delta17-SG. Chemical denaturation experiments using steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy showed that the second-generation helix-less variant is energetically more stable than Delta17-SG. The three-dimensional structure of apo-Delta27-GG was solved using triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy along with the structure calculation and refinement protocols contained in the program package ARIA/CNS. In spite of the deletion of 27 residues, the structure assumes a compact all-beta-sheet fold with no unstructured loops and open access to the interior cavity. The NMR structure of a stable and compact all-beta-sheet variant of intestinal fatty acid-binding protein.,Ogbay B, Dekoster GT, Cistola DP Protein Sci. 2004 May;13(5):1227-37. PMID:15096629 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Fatty acid-binding protein

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