Journal:Acta Cryst D:S2059798322010762
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<b>Molecular Tour</b><br> | <b>Molecular Tour</b><br> | ||
Diffraction methods like crystallography and electron microscopy are key technologies in structural biology. As the name implies, crystallography requires crystals to amplify the diffraction of photons, which is not the case for electrons. Unfortunately, growing crystals can be a time-consuming trial and error process without guaranty for success. The host lattice display method was developed to support crystallogenesis. Here, the target molecule is arranged in a regular assembly by means of a host lattice that can be obtained under predefined crystallization conditions. In principle this method is applicable even to large macromolecules, but in practice it is currently limited by the temperature factor gradient of the assembly, which is a feature of the host lattice design, and the occupancy of the target molecule. | Diffraction methods like crystallography and electron microscopy are key technologies in structural biology. As the name implies, crystallography requires crystals to amplify the diffraction of photons, which is not the case for electrons. Unfortunately, growing crystals can be a time-consuming trial and error process without guaranty for success. The host lattice display method was developed to support crystallogenesis. Here, the target molecule is arranged in a regular assembly by means of a host lattice that can be obtained under predefined crystallization conditions. In principle this method is applicable even to large macromolecules, but in practice it is currently limited by the temperature factor gradient of the assembly, which is a feature of the host lattice design, and the occupancy of the target molecule. | ||
| - | Ernst and colleagues (2019) used the Endo-α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase from Bifidobacterium longum (EngBF) to generate the host lattice and fused the N-terminus of a Designed Ankyrin Repeat Protein (DARPin) to the C-terminus of EngBF by means of a rigid helical linker to obtain a unique incorporation of the target. The method was developed based on molecules with known three-dimensional structures. We now applied it to determine the structure of a novel leucinostatin derivative. Leucinostatins are water insoluble peptides with extraordinarily high cytotoxicity. To answer the question about the structure of this leucinostatin derivative under native-like conditions we selected two designed ankyrin repeat proteins and grafted the peptide binding sites on the previously developed host lattice molecule. The complexes were crystallized under the established conditions and the peptide structure was determined by difference Fourier analysis and refined at 2.05 Å and 2.36 Å resolution. The structure reveals a central alpha-helical moiety with elevated mobility at the termini. In contrast to that leucinostatin-A and related peptides that were crystallized from organic solvents are completely alpha-helical. The enhanced mobility of the termini might be functionally important, because in complexes of related peptides with their cognate targets the termini do not participate in the alpha-helix H-bond network. We conclude that in this case host lattice display successfully revealed native like structures on the expense of aggravated resolution and without the need to determine new crystallization conditions. | + | Ernst and colleagues (2019) used the Endo-α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase from ''Bifidobacterium longum'' (EngBF) to generate the host lattice and fused the N-terminus of a Designed Ankyrin Repeat Protein (DARPin) to the C-terminus of EngBF by means of a rigid helical linker to obtain a unique incorporation of the target. The method was developed based on molecules with known three-dimensional structures. We now applied it to determine the structure of a novel leucinostatin derivative. Leucinostatins are water insoluble peptides with extraordinarily high cytotoxicity. To answer the question about the structure of this leucinostatin derivative under native-like conditions we selected two designed ankyrin repeat proteins and grafted the peptide binding sites on the previously developed host lattice molecule. The complexes were crystallized under the established conditions and the peptide structure was determined by difference Fourier analysis and refined at 2.05 Å and 2.36 Å resolution. The structure reveals a central alpha-helical moiety with elevated mobility at the termini. In contrast to that leucinostatin-A and related peptides that were crystallized from organic solvents are completely alpha-helical. The enhanced mobility of the termini might be functionally important, because in complexes of related peptides with their cognate targets the termini do not participate in the alpha-helix H-bond network. We conclude that in this case host lattice display successfully revealed native like structures on the expense of aggravated resolution and without the need to determine new crystallization conditions. |
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