CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE TRIGONAL FORM OF HUMAN PLASMA RETINOL-BINDING PROTEIN AT 2.5 ANGSTROMS RESOLUTIONCRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE TRIGONAL FORM OF HUMAN PLASMA RETINOL-BINDING PROTEIN AT 2.5 ANGSTROMS RESOLUTION

Structural highlights

1brp is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.5Å
Ligands:
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Disease

RET4_HUMAN Defects in RBP4 are a cause of retinol-binding protein deficiency (RBP deficiency) [MIM:180250. This condition causes night vision problems. It produces a typical 'fundus xerophthalmicus', featuring a progressed atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium.

Function

RET4_HUMAN Delivers retinol from the liver stores to the peripheral tissues. In plasma, the RBP-retinol complex interacts with transthyretin, this prevents its loss by filtration through the kidney glomeruli.

Evolutionary Conservation

 

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

See Also

1brp, resolution 2.50Å

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