1lyo

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Template:STRUCTURE 1lyo

CROSS-LINKED LYSOZYME CRYSTAL IN NEAT WATER


Overview

Tetragonal crystals of hen egg white lysozyme were cross-linked and subjected to X-ray diffraction study in acetonitrile-water media with different acetonitrile concentrations. Crystals in neat acetonitrile did not scatter X-ray well. Structures of crystals in neat water, in 90% and 95% acetonitrile, and crystal back-soaked from acetonitrile to water, were determined to about 2 A resolution. For crystals in both 90% acetonitrile, and crystal back-soaked from acetonitrile to water, were determined to about 2 A resolution. For crystals in both 90% and 95% acetonitrile, only one protein-bond acetonitrile molecule is found in the active site cleft, and its location and binding-protein mode is similar to the C subunit of polysaccharide. The alteration in conformation and hydrogen-bond pattern involving water as solvent causes the reduction of the protein's flexibility in organic media. The back-soaked crystal regained its ordinary three-dimensional structure in water.

About this Structure

1LYO is a Single protein structure of sequence from Gallus gallus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.

Reference

X-ray studies on cross-linked lysozyme crystals in acetonitrile-water mixture., Wang Z, Zhu G, Huang Q, Qian M, Shao M, Jia Y, Tang Y, Biochim Biophys Acta. 1998 May 19;1384(2):335-44. PMID:9659395 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 00:25:52 2008

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