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PDBsum entry 4zwj

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4zwj
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833 a.a.
673 a.a.
789 a.a.

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Title Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-Ray laser.
Authors Y.Kang, X.E.Zhou, X.Gao, Y.He, W.Liu, A.Ishchenko, A.Barty, T.A.White, O.Yefanov, G.W.Han, Q.Xu, P.W.De waal, J.Ke, M.H.Tan, C.Zhang, A.Moeller, G.M.West, B.D.Pascal, N.Van eps, L.N.Caro, S.A.Vishnivetskiy, R.J.Lee, K.M.Suino-Powell, X.Gu, K.Pal, J.Ma, X.Zhi, S.Boutet, G.J.Williams, M.Messerschmidt, C.Gati, N.A.Zatsepin, D.Wang, D.James, S.Basu, S.Roy-Chowdhury, C.E.Conrad, J.Coe, H.Liu, S.Lisova, C.Kupitz, I.Grotjohann, R.Fromme, Y.Jiang, M.Tan, H.Yang, J.Li, M.Wang, Z.Zheng, D.Li, N.Howe, Y.Zhao, J.Standfuss, K.Diederichs, Y.Dong, C.S.Potter, B.Carragher, M.Caffrey, H.Jiang, H.N.Chapman, J.C.Spence, P.Fromme, U.Weierstall, O.P.Ernst, V.Katritch, V.V.Gurevich, P.R.Griffin, W.L.Hubbell, R.C.Stevens, V.Cherezov, K.Melcher, H.E.Xu.
Ref. Nature, 2015, 523, 561-567. [DOI no: 10.1038/nature14656]
PubMed id 26200343
Abstract
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) signal primarily through G proteins or arrestins. Arrestin binding to GPCRs blocks G protein interaction and redirects signalling to numerous G-protein-independent pathways. Here we report the crystal structure of a constitutively active form of human rhodopsin bound to a pre-activated form of the mouse visual arrestin, determined by serial femtosecond X-ray laser crystallography. Together with extensive biochemical and mutagenesis data, the structure reveals an overall architecture of the rhodopsin-arrestin assembly in which rhodopsin uses distinct structural elements, including transmembrane helix 7 and helix 8, to recruit arrestin. Correspondingly, arrestin adopts the pre-activated conformation, with a ∼20° rotation between the amino and carboxy domains, which opens up a cleft in arrestin to accommodate a short helix formed by the second intracellular loop of rhodopsin. This structure provides a basis for understanding GPCR-mediated arrestin-biased signalling and demonstrates the power of X-ray lasers for advancing the frontiers of structural biology.
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