1dl0
SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE INSECTICIDAL NEUROTOXIN J-ATRACOTOXIN-HV1C
OverviewOverview
We have isolated a family of insect-selective neurotoxins from the venom of the Australian funnel-web spider that appear to be good candidates for biopesticide engineering. These peptides, which we have named the Janus-faced atracotoxins (J-ACTXs), each contain 36 or 37 residues, with four disulfide bridges, and they show no homology to any sequences in the protein/DNA databases. The three-dimensional structure of one of these toxins reveals an extremely rare vicinal disulfide bridge that we demonstrate to be critical for insecticidal activity. We propose that J-ACTX comprises an ancestral protein fold that we refer to as the disulfide-directed beta-hairpin.
About this StructureAbout this Structure
1DL0 is a Single protein structure. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
ReferenceReference
Discovery and characterization of a family of insecticidal neurotoxins with a rare vicinal disulfide bridge., Wang X, Connor M, Smith R, Maciejewski MW, Howden ME, Nicholson GM, Christie MJ, King GF, Nat Struct Biol. 2000 Jun;7(6):505-13. PMID:10881200 Page seeded by OCA on Fri May 2 13:58:20 2008