Plastocyanin is an electron-transfer protein which has been largely used for biophysical studies as well as for protein-engineering experiments. A surface disulfide bridge has been engineered in poplar plastocyanin to allow protein chemisorption on gold substrates. The mutated plastocyanin crystal structure has been studied at 1.6 Angstrom resolution (R factor = 0.145, R-free = 0.205) to characterize the effects of the engineered disulfide on the overall protein structure and on the Cu-coordination sphere in view of biophysical applications. The new orthorhombic crystal form isolated for the mutated plastocyanin displays two protein molecules per asymmetric unit.
The 1.6 Å resolution crystal structure of a mutant plastocyanin bearing a 21-25 engineered disulfide bridge
Milani M;
2001
Abstract
Plastocyanin is an electron-transfer protein which has been largely used for biophysical studies as well as for protein-engineering experiments. A surface disulfide bridge has been engineered in poplar plastocyanin to allow protein chemisorption on gold substrates. The mutated plastocyanin crystal structure has been studied at 1.6 Angstrom resolution (R factor = 0.145, R-free = 0.205) to characterize the effects of the engineered disulfide on the overall protein structure and on the Cu-coordination sphere in view of biophysical applications. The new orthorhombic crystal form isolated for the mutated plastocyanin displays two protein molecules per asymmetric unit.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
