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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications2025

The structure of His15 acetamide-modified hen egg-white lysozyme: a nice surprise from an old friend.

Jose Malanho da Silva, Jose Lanuza, Francesco Bruno, Vito Calderone, Enrico Ravera

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jose Malanho da SilvaDepartment of Chemistry `Ugo Schiff', Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6255-3960
Jose LanuzaDepartment of Chemistry `Ugo Schiff', Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2848-7207
Francesco BrunoDepartment of Chemistry `Ugo Schiff', Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4590-4316
Vito CalderoneDepartment of Chemistry `Ugo Schiff', Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7963-6241
Enrico RaveraDepartment of Chemistry `Ugo Schiff', Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7708-9208

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Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca D53D23016850001Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca DICUS 2.0
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Abstract

Hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) is a small polycationic protein which is highly soluble and stable. This has led to it becoming a `molecular laboratory' where chemical biological operations and structural techniques are tested. To date, HEWL accounts for 1233 PDB entries, roughly 0.5% of the total, making it the best-represented protein in the PDB. With the aim of unambiguously identifying the N atom of the His15 side chain that is most reactive towards iodoacetamide, the structure of chemically modified HEWL was determined by crystallizing it using the `15 minutes lysozyme' protocol. This protocol invariably yields tetragonal crystals of the unmodified protein. To our surprise, we found that the crystals of the modified protein had similar unit-cell parameters but that refinement was only possible when considering an orthorhombic system.

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AcetamidesHistidineMuramidaseAnimalsChickensCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayEscherichia coliGene ExpressionIodoacetamideModels, MolecularacetamideAcetamideshen egg lysozymeHistidineIodoacetamideMuramidaseacylated lysozymecrystallizationHis15 acetamide modificationspace-group analysis

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