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PDBsum entry 1aiz

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Electron transport(cadmium binding) PDB id
1aiz
Contents
Protein chains
129 a.a. *
Ligands
SO4 ×4
Metals
_CD ×2
Waters ×239
* Residue conservation analysis

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Key reference
Title Structure of apo-Azurin from alcaligenes denitrificans at 1.8 a resolution.
Authors W.E.Shepard, R.L.Kingston, B.F.Anderson, E.N.Baker.
Ref. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr, 1993, 49, 331-343. [DOI no: 10.1107/S0907444992013544]
PubMed id 15299522
Abstract
The structure of apo-azurin from Alcaligenes denitrificans has been determined at high resolution by X-ray crystallography. Two separate structure analyses have been carried out, (i) on crystals obtained from solutions of apo-azurin and (ii) on crystals obtained by removal of copper from previously formed crystals of holo-azurin. Data to 1.8 A resolution were collected from the apo-azurin crystals, by Weissenberg photography (with image plates) using synchrotron radiation and by diffractometry, and the structure was refined by restrained least-squares methods to a final R value of 0.160 for all data in the range 10.0-1.8 A. The final model of 1954 protein atoms, 246 water molecules (66 half-weighted), four SO(4)(2-) ions, and two low-occupancy (0.13 and 0.15) Cu atoms has r.m.s. deviations of 0.012, 0.045 and 0.013 A from standard bond lengths, angle distances and planar groups. For copper-removed azurin, data to 2.2 A were collected by diffractometry and the structure refined by restrained least squares to a final R value of 0.158 for all data in the range 10.0-2.2 A. The final model of 1954 protein atoms, 264 water molecules, two SO(4)(2-) ions, two low occupancy (0.18 and 0.22) metal atoms and one unidentified atom (modelled as S) has r.m.s. deviations of 0.013, 0.047 and 0.012 A from standard bond lengths, angle distances and planar groups. The two structures are essentially identical to each other and show no significant differences from the oxidized and reduced holo-azurin structures. The ligand side chains move slightly closer together following the removal of copper, with the radius of the cavity between the three strongly binding ligands, His 46, His 117 and Cys 112, shrinking from 1.31 A in reduced azurin to 1.24 A in oxidized azurin and 1.16 A in apo-azurin. There is a suggestion of increased flexibility in one of the copper-binding loops but the structure supports the view that the copper site found in holo-azurin is a stable structure, defined by the constraints of the polypeptide structure even in the absence of a bound metal ion.
Figure 2.
Fig. 2. Electron density for the two sulfate ions bound o olecule A o apo-azurin, taken from an omit map in which these ions di not contribute to the phasing. (a) The sulfate ion, which is also found in the oxidized and reduced holo-azurin structures, bound to His 83N e2 and Gly 76NH. (b) The sulfate ion bound betwen Lys 56 and Lys 122, with a thrd Lys side chain (from Lys 38 of a neighbouring molecule) and a water olecule completing the ite.
Figure 9.
Fig. 9. Superposition of the copper binding sites of apo-azurin (yellow), copper-removed aurin (green), oxidized azuin (blue) and reduced azurin (purple). Th copper position in oxidized azurin is shown with a cross.
The above figures are reprinted by permission from the IUCr: Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr (1993, 49, 331-343) copyright 1993.
Added reference #1*
Title Metal substitution in a blue-copper protein: the crystal structure of cadmium-azurin at 1.8 A resolution.
Authors K.A.Blackwell, B.F.Andersen, E.N.Baker.
Ref. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr, 1994, 50, 263-270. [DOI no: 10.1107/S0907444993014398]
PubMed id 15299437
Full text Abstract
Figure 1.
Fig. 1. Copper site in the oxiized form of azurin frm Alcaligenes denitrificans.
Figure 5.
Fig. 5. Stereo diagram of the electron density (2Fo - Fc) at the metal site of Cd-azurin (shown for molecule B).
The above figures are reproduced from the cited reference with permission from the IUCr
*Note, "added" references are those not in the PDB file but which have either been obtained from the journal or suggested by the author(s).
Secondary reference #1
Title Copper coordination geometry in azurin undergoes minimal change on reduction of copper(ii) to copper(i)
Authors W.E.B.Shepard, B.F.Anderson, D.A.Lewandoski, G.E.Norris, E.N.Baker.
Ref. j am chem soc, 1990, 112, 7817.
Secondary reference #2
Title Structure of azurin from alcaligenes denitrificans refinement at 1.8 a resolution and comparison of the two crystallographically independent molecules.
Author E.N.Baker.
Ref. J Mol Biol, 1988, 203, 1071-1095.
PubMed id 3210236
Abstract
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