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| - | '''Unreleased structure''' | ||
| - | + | ==Variant Surface Glycoprotein VSG615== | |
| - | + | <StructureSection load='8ok8' size='340' side='right'caption='[[8ok8]], [[Resolution|resolution]] 3.22Å' scene=''> | |
| - | + | == Structural highlights == | |
| - | + | <table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[8ok8]] is a 6 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_brucei_brucei Trypanosoma brucei brucei]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=8OK8 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=8OK8 FirstGlance]. <br> | |
| - | + | </td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 3.22Å</td></tr> | |
| - | [[Category: | + | <tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=GLC:ALPHA-D-GLUCOSE'>GLC</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=NAG:N-ACETYL-D-GLUCOSAMINE'>NAG</scene></td></tr> |
| + | <tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=8ok8 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=8ok8 OCA], [https://pdbe.org/8ok8 PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=8ok8 RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/8ok8 PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=8ok8 ProSAT]</span></td></tr> | ||
| + | </table> | ||
| + | == Function == | ||
| + | [https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/M4SXH7_9TRYP M4SXH7_9TRYP] VSG forms a coat on the surface of the parasite. The trypanosome evades the immune response of the host by expressing a series of antigenically distinct VSGs from an estimated 1000 VSG genes.[ARBA:ARBA00002523] | ||
| + | __TOC__ | ||
| + | </StructureSection> | ||
| + | [[Category: Large Structures]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Trypanosoma brucei brucei]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Chandra M]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Stebbins CE]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Zeelen JP]] | ||
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