9ilb
HUMAN INTERLEUKIN-1 BETA
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OverviewOverview
Water in the hydrophobic cavity of human interleukin 1beta, which was, detected by NMR spectroscopy but was invisible by high resolution x-ray, crystallography, has been mapped quantitatively by measurement and phasing, of all of the low resolution x-ray diffraction data from a single crystal., Phases for the low resolution data were refined by iterative density, modification of an initial flat solvent model outside the envelope of the, atomic model. The refinement was restrained by the condition that the map, of the difference between the electron density distribution in the full, unit cell and that of the atomic model be flat within the envelope of the, well ordered protein structure. Care was taken to avoid overfitting the, diffraction data by maintaining phases for the high resolution data from, the atomic model and by a resolution-dependent damping of the structure, factor differences between data and model. The cavity region in the, protein could accommodate up to four water molecules. The refined solvent, difference map indicates that there are about two water molecules in the, cavity region. This map is compatible with an atomic model of the water, distribution refined by using XPLOR. About 70% of the time, there appears, to be a water dimer in the central hydrophobic cavity, which is connected, to the outside by two constricted channels occupied by single water, molecules approximately 40% of the time on one side and approximately 10%, on the other.
DiseaseDisease
Known disease associated with this structure: Gastric cancer risk after H. pylori infection OMIM:[147720]
About this StructureAbout this Structure
9ILB is a Single protein structure of sequence from Escherichia coli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
ReferenceReference
Disordered water within a hydrophobic protein cavity visualized by x-ray crystallography., Yu B, Blaber M, Gronenborn AM, Clore GM, Caspar DL, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Jan 5;96(1):103-8. PMID:9874779
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