1oke
From Proteopedia
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE DENGUE 2 VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN IN COMPLEX WITH N-OCTYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE
Overview
Dengue virus is an emerging global health threat. Its major envelope glycoprotein, E, mediates viral attachment and entry by membrane fusion. A crystal structure of the soluble ectodomain of E from dengue virus type 2 reveals a hydrophobic pocket lined by residues that influence the pH threshold for fusion. The pocket, which accepts a hydrophobic ligand, opens and closes through a conformational shift in a beta-hairpin at the interface between two domains. These features point to a structural pathway for the fusion-activating transition and suggest a strategy for finding small-molecule inhibitors of dengue and other flaviviruses.
About this Structure
1OKE is a Single protein structure of sequence from Dengue virus 2. This structure supersedes the now removed PDB entry 1oam. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
A ligand-binding pocket in the dengue virus envelope glycoprotein., Modis Y, Ogata S, Clements D, Harrison SC, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Jun 10;100(12):6986-91. Epub 2003 May 20. PMID:12759475 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 03:57:50 2008
