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PDBsum entry 1a45

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Eye lens protein PDB id
1a45

 

 

 

 

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Protein chain
173 a.a. *
Waters ×207
* Residue conservation analysis
PDB id:
1a45
Name: Eye lens protein
Title: Gammaf crystallin from bovine lens
Structure: Gammaf crystallin. Chain: a
Source: Bos taurus. Cattle. Organism_taxid: 9913. Organ: lens
Resolution:
2.30Å     R-factor:   0.186    
Authors: B.V.Norledge,R.Hay,O.A.Bateman,C.Slingsby,H.E.White,D.S.Moss, P.F.Lindley,H.P.C.Driessen
Key ref: B.V.Norledge et al. (1997). Towards a molecular understanding of phase separation in the lens: a comparison of the X-ray structures of two high Tc gamma-crystallins, gammaE and gammaF, with two low Tc gamma-crystallins, gammaB and gammaD. Exp Eye Res, 65, 609-630. PubMed id: 9367641 DOI: 10.1006/exer.1997.0368
Date:
10-Feb-98     Release date:   17-Jun-98    
Supersedes: 2gcr
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Protein chain
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
P23005  (CRGF_BOVIN) -  Gamma-crystallin F from Bos taurus
Seq:
Struc:
174 a.a.
173 a.a.
Key:    PfamA domain  Secondary structure  CATH domain

 Enzyme reactions 
   Enzyme class: E.C.?
[IntEnz]   [ExPASy]   [KEGG]   [BRENDA]

 

 
DOI no: 10.1006/exer.1997.0368 Exp Eye Res 65:609-630 (1997)
PubMed id: 9367641  
 
 
Towards a molecular understanding of phase separation in the lens: a comparison of the X-ray structures of two high Tc gamma-crystallins, gammaE and gammaF, with two low Tc gamma-crystallins, gammaB and gammaD.
B.V.Norledge, R.E.Hay, O.A.Bateman, C.Slingsby, H.P.Driessen.
 
  ABSTRACT  
 
gamma-Crystallins, although closely related in sequence, show intriguing differences in their temperature-dependent interactions: those that have a high or intermediate Tc for phase separation are cryoproteins whereas low Tc gamma-crystallins are not. To address the molecular basis of phase separation, X-ray crystallography has been used to define the structural differences between high and low Tc gamma-crystallins. A pre-requisite for this study was to clarify the assignment of bovine gene sequences to bovine gamma-crystallin proteins used for biophysical measurements. Based on nucleotide sequence analyses of gamma E and gamma F bovine crystallin genes, gamma F corresponds to the previously crystallised high Tc protein bovine gamma IVa and gamma E corresponds to the high Tc bovine protein fraction previously known as gamma IIIa. The gamma F sequence has enabled the completion of the refinement of the bovine gamma F crystal structure which shows that the molecule has an additional surface tryptophan explaining why gamma F has different spectroscopic properties from gamma B. A high Tc protein from rat lens, gamma E crystallin, has been crystallised and the X-ray structure solved at 2.3 A resolution. Comparison of the X-ray structures of two high Tc proteins, rat gamma E and bovine gamma F, with the structures of two low Tc proteins, bovine gamma B and bovine gamma D, shows that the main conformational change between high and low Tc proteins is in the cd surface loop of motif 3. All four structures have numerous ion pairs on their surfaces leading to a high surface charge density, yet with low overall charge. Comparison of the lattice contacts of the two high Tc proteins with the two low Tc gamma-crystallins indicates that these high Tc proteins utilise more amino-aromatic interactions such as between histidine and arginine. Comparison of the sequences of all the gamma-crystallins which have been characterised for phase separation temperature indicates that only residue Arg/Lys 163 uniquely distinguishes cryo from non-cryo gamma-crystallins and it is close to the altered surface loop. Although this region probably contributes to phase separation, Tc is likely to be a function of an overall global property that is responsive to overall charge distribution. Calculated dipole moments of native gamma-crystallins, low Tc gamma-crystallin sequences threaded into high Tc gamma-crystallin structures, and vice versa, show how both sequence and 3D structure contribute to this overall property. High Tc gamma-crystallins have on average higher Arg/Lys ratios and higher histidine content. It is hypothesised that this increases the proportion of surface static paired charged networks which thus reduces the repulsive hydration force and so increases the attractive interactions of the protein-rich phase in binary liquid phase separation.
 

Literature references that cite this PDB file's key reference

  PubMed id Reference
20382156 S.Lee, B.Mahler, J.Toward, B.Jones, K.Wyatt, L.Dong, G.Wistow, and Z.Wu (2010).
A single destabilizing mutation (F9S) promotes concerted unfolding of an entire globular domain in gammaS-crystallin.
  J Mol Biol, 399, 320-330.  
19233964 C.J.Weadick, and B.S.Chang (2009).
Molecular evolution of the betagamma lens crystallin superfamily: evidence for a retained ancestral function in gamma N crystallins?
  Mol Biol Evol, 26, 1127-1142.  
19358562 J.Chen, P.R.Callis, and J.King (2009).
Mechanism of the very efficient quenching of tryptophan fluorescence in human gammaD- and gammaS-crystallins: the gamma-crystallin fold may have evolved to protect tryptophan residues from ultraviolet photodamage.
  Biochemistry, 48, 3708-3716.  
19564688 N.Volkmann (2009).
Confidence intervals for fitting of atomic models into low-resolution densities.
  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr, 65, 679-689.  
17659303 A.G.Purkiss, O.A.Bateman, K.Wyatt, P.A.Wilmarth, L.L.David, G.J.Wistow, and C.Slingsby (2007).
Biophysical properties of gammaC-crystallin in human and mouse eye lens: the role of molecular dipoles.
  J Mol Biol, 372, 205-222.
PDB code: 2v2u
16239733 J.B.Artero, M.Härtlein, S.McSweeney, and P.Timmins (2005).
A comparison of refined X-ray structures of hydrogenated and perdeuterated rat gammaE-crystallin in H2O and D2O.
  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr, 61, 1541-1549.
PDB codes: 1zgt 1zie 1ziq 1zir
16260758 Z.Wu, F.Delaglio, K.Wyatt, G.Wistow, and A.Bax (2005).
Solution structure of (gamma)S-crystallin by molecular fragment replacement NMR.
  Protein Sci, 14, 3101-3114.
PDB codes: 1zwm 1zwo
12592018 M.S.Kosinski-Collins, and J.King (2003).
In vitro unfolding, refolding, and polymerization of human gammaD crystallin, a protein involved in cataract formation.
  Protein Sci, 12, 480-490.  
11706012 A.G.Purkiss, O.A.Bateman, J.M.Goodfellow, N.H.Lubsen, and C.Slingsby (2002).
The X-ray crystal structure of human gamma S-crystallin C-terminal domain.
  J Biol Chem, 277, 4199-4205.
PDB code: 1ha4
10223295 M.H.Seto, H.L.Liu, D.A.Zajchowski, and M.Whitlow (1999).
Protein fold analysis of the B30.2-like domain.
  Proteins, 35, 235-249.  
  9541393 S.Palme, R.Jaenicke, and C.Slingsby (1998).
X-ray structures of three interface mutants of gammaB-crystallin from bovine eye lens.
  Protein Sci, 7, 611-618.  
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