1w08

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STRUCTURE OF T70N HUMAN LYSOZYME

Overview

T70N human lysozyme is the only known naturally occurring destabilised, lysozyme variant that has not been detected in amyloid deposits in human, patients. Its study and a comparison of its properties with those of the, amyloidogenic variants of lysozyme is therefore important for, understanding the determinants of amyloid disease. We report here the, X-ray crystal structure and the solution dynamics of T70N lysozyme, as, monitored by hydrogen/deuterium exchange and NMR relaxation experiments., The X-ray crystal structure shows that a substantial structural, rearrangement results from the amino acid substitution, involving residues, 45-51 and 68-75 in particular, and gives rise to a concomitant separation, of these two loops of up to 6.5A. A marked decrease in the magnitudes of, the generalised order parameter (S2) values of the amide nitrogen atom, for residues 70-74, shows that the T70N substitution increases the, flexibility of the peptide backbone around the site of mutation., Hydrogen/deuterium exchange protection factors measured by NMR, spectroscopy were calculated for the T70N variant and the wild-type, protein. The protection factors for many of backbone amide groups in the, beta-domain of the T70N variant are decreased relative to those in the, wild-type protein, whereas those in the alpha-domain display, wild-type-like values. In pulse-labelled hydrogen/deuterium exchange, experiments monitored by mass spectrometry, transient but locally, cooperative unfolding of the beta-domain of the T70N variant and the, wild-type protein was observed, but at higher temperatures than for the, amyloidogenic variants I56T and D67H. These findings reveal that such, partial unfolding is an intrinsic property of the human lysozyme, structure, and suggest that the readiness with which it occurs is a, critical feature determining whether or not amyloid deposition occurs in, vivo.

Disease

Known diseases associated with this structure: Amyloidosis, renal OMIM:[153450], Microphthalmia, syndromic 1 OMIM:[309800]

About this Structure

1W08 is a Single protein structure of sequence from Homo sapiens with CL as ligand. Active as Lysozyme, with EC number 3.2.1.17 Known structural/functional Site: . Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.

Reference

Rationalising lysozyme amyloidosis: insights from the structure and solution dynamics of T70N lysozyme., Johnson RJ, Christodoulou J, Dumoulin M, Caddy GL, Alcocer MJ, Murtagh GJ, Kumita JR, Larsson G, Robinson CV, Archer DB, Luisi B, Dobson CM, J Mol Biol. 2005 Sep 30;352(4):823-36. PMID:16126226

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