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Background: The drug chromomycin-A 3 binds to the minor groove of DNA and requires a divalent metal ion for complex formation. 1 H, 31 P and 13 C pseudocontact shifts occurring in the presence of a tightly bound divalent cobalt ion in the complex between d(TTGGCCAA) 2 and chromomycin-A 3 have been used to determine the structure of the complex...
Ligand binding pockets in proteins contain water molecules, which play important roles in modulating protein-ligand interactions. Available crystallographic data for the 5′ mRNA cap-binding pocket of the translation initiation factor protein eIF4E shows several structurally conserved waters, which also persist in molecular dynamics simulations. These waters engage an intricate hydrogen-bond network...
Picornaviruses are small positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that include many important human pathogens. Within the host cell, they replicate at specific replication sites called replication organelles. To create this membrane platform, they hijack several host factors including the acyl-CoA-binding domain-containing protein-3 (ACBD3). Here, we present a structural characterization of the...
The nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (TH) is an integral membrane enzyme that uses the proton-motive force to drive hydride transfer from NADH to NADP+ in bacteria and eukaryotes. Here we solved a 2.2-Å crystal structure of the TH transmembrane domain (Thermus thermophilus) at pH 6.5. This structure exhibits conformational changes of helix positions from a previous structure solved at pH 8...
Glaucoma-associated myocilin is a member of the olfactomedins, a protein family involved in neuronal development and human diseases. Molecular studies of the myocilin N-terminal coiled coil demonstrate a unique tripartite architecture: a Y-shaped parallel dimer-of-dimers with distinct tetramer and dimer regions. The structure of the dimeric C-terminal 7-heptad repeats elucidates an unexpected repeat...
At central nervous system synapses, agonist binding to postsynaptic ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) results in signaling between neurons. N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors are a unique family of iGluRs that activate in response to the concurrent binding of glutamate and glycine. Here, we investigate the process of agonist binding to the GluN2A (glutamate binding) and GluN1 (glycine...
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis ATP-binding cassette transporter Rv1747 is a putative exporter of cell wall biosynthesis intermediates. Rv1747 has a cytoplasmic regulatory module consisting of two pThr-interacting Forkhead-associated (FHA) domains connected by a conformationally disordered linker with two phospho-acceptor threonines (pThr). The structures of FHA-1 and FHA-2 were determined by X-ray...
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