Structure of bovine prothrombin fragment 1 refined at 2.25 Å resolution

Seshadri, TP and Tulinsky, A and Jankun, Ewa Skrzypczak and Park, CH (1991) Structure of bovine prothrombin fragment 1 refined at 2.25 Å resolution. In: Journal of Molecular Biology, 220 (2). pp. 481-494.

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Abstract

The structure of bovine prothrombin fragment 1 has been refined at 2.25 Å resolution using high resolution measurements made with the synchrotron beam at CHESS. The synchrotron data were collected photographically by oscillation methods (R-merge = 0.08). These were combined with lower order diffractometer data for refinement purposes. The structure was refined using restrained least-squares methods with the program PROLSQ to a crystallographic R-value of 0.175. The structure includes 105 water molecules with occupancies of >0·6. The first 35 residues (Ala1-Leu35) of the N-terminal ?-carboxy glutamic acid-domain (Ala1-Cys48) of fragment 1 are disordered as are two carbohydrate chains of Mr ? 5000; the latter two combine to render 40% of the structure disordered. The folding of the kringle of fragment 1 is related to the close intramolecular contact between the inner loop disulfide groups. Half of the conserved sequence of the kringle forms an inner core surrounding these disulfide groups. The remainder of the sequence conservation is associated with the many turns of the main chain. The Pro95 residue of the kringle has a cis conformation and Tyr74 is ordered in fragment 1, although nuclear magnetic resonance studies indicate that the comparable residue of plasminogen kringle 4 has two positions. Surface accessibility calculations indicate that none of the disulfide groups of fragment 1 is accessible to solvent.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Molecular Biology
Publisher:	Elsevier science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2010 13:56
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2010 13:56
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/34152

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