Tuan Han-Fang, Erskine Peter, Langan Paul, Cooper Jon, Coates Leighton
Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Dec 1;63(Pt 12):1080-3. doi: 10.1107/S1744309107061283. Epub 2007 Nov 30.
Endothiapepsin has been cocrystallized with the gem-diol inhibitor PD-135,040 in a low solvent-content (39%) unit cell, which is unprecedented for this enzyme-inhibitor complex and enables ultrahigh-resolution (1.0 A) X-ray diffraction data to be collected. This atomic resolution X-ray data set will be used to deduce the protonation states of the catalytic aspartate residues. A room-temperature neutron data set has also been collected for joint refinement with a room-temperature X-ray data set in order to locate the H/D atoms at the active site.
内硫胶蛋白酶已与偕二醇抑制剂PD - 135,040在低溶剂含量(39%)的晶胞中进行了共结晶,这对于这种酶 - 抑制剂复合物来说是前所未有的,并使得能够收集超高分辨率(1.0 Å)的X射线衍射数据。这个原子分辨率的X射线数据集将用于推断催化天冬氨酸残基的质子化状态。还收集了一个室温中子数据集,以便与室温X射线数据集进行联合精修,从而确定活性位点处的H/D原子。