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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography2013

Evidence for small-molecule-mediated loop stabilization in the structure of the isolated Pin1 WW domain.

David E Mortenson, Dale F Kreitler, Hyun Gi Yun, Samuel H Gellman, Katrina T Forest

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David E MortensonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Dale F Kreitler
Hyun Gi Yun
Samuel H Gellman
Katrina T Forest
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008349 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI FOX, BRIAN G · 1989 to 2019
$22.5M
Use of designed peptides to study folding and bindingR01GM061238 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI GELLMAN, SAMUEL H. · 2000 to 2023
$7.9M
PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICST32GM008293 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI JACKSON, MEYER B. · 1989 to 2016
$4.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM061238NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061238NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008293NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human Pin1 WW domain is a small autonomously folding protein that has been useful as a model system for biophysical studies of β-sheet folding. This domain has resisted previous attempts at crystallization for X-ray diffraction studies, perhaps because of intrinsic conformational flexibility that interferes with the formation of a crystal lattice. Here, the crystal structure of the human Pin1 WW domain has been obtained via racemic crystallization in the presence of small-molecule additives. Both enantiomers of a 36-residue variant of the Pin1 WW domain were synthesized chemically, and the L- and D-polypeptides were combined to afford diffracting crystals. The structural data revealed packing interactions of small carboxylic acids, either achiral citrate or a D,L mixture of malic acid, with a mobile loop region of the WW-domain fold. These interactions with solution additives may explain our success in crystallization of this protein racemate. Molecular-dynamics simulations starting from the structure of the Pin1 WW domain suggest that the crystal structure closely resembles the conformation of this domain in solution. The structural data presented here should provide a basis for further studies of this important model system.

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Amino Acid SequenceCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayExcipientsHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationMolecular Sequence DataNIMA-Interacting Peptidylprolyl IsomerasePeptidylprolyl IsomeraseProtein ConformationProtein Structure, TertiaryExcipientsNIMA-Interacting Peptidylprolyl IsomerasePeptidylprolyl IsomerasePIN1 protein, humanloop stabilizationPin1 WW domainracemic crystallization

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PMID24311591
PMCPMC3852655
OpenAlexW1965017429

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