The NMR solution structure of the pheromone Er-2 from the ciliated protozoan Euplotes raikovi.
The NMR structure of the pheromone Er-2 from the ciliated protozoan Euplotes raikovi has been determined in aqueous solution. The structure of this 40-residue protein was calculated with the distance geometry program DIANA from 621 distance constraints and 89 dihedral angle constraints; the program OPAL was employed for the energy minimization. For a group of 20 conformers used to characterize the solution structure, the average pairwise RMS deviation from the mean structure calculated for the backbone heavy atoms N, C alpha, and C' of residues 3-37 was 0.31 A. The molecular architecture is dominated by an up-down-up bundle of 3 short helices of residues 5-11, 14-20, and 23-33, which is similar to the structures of the homologous pheromones Er-1 and Er-10. Novel structural features include a well-defined N-cap on the first helix, a 1-residue deletion in the second helix resulting in the formation of a 3(10)-helix rather than an alpha-helix as found in Er-1 and Er-10, and the simultaneous presence of 2 different conformations for the C-terminal tetrapeptide segment, i.e., a major conformation with the Leu 39-Pro 40 peptide bond in the trans form and a minor conformation with this peptide bond in the cis form.
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Institut für Molekularbiologie und Biophysik, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland.
Szyperski
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Luginbühl
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Ortenzi
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Luporini
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Bradshaw
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Wüthrich
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016812:Euplotes / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010675:Pheromones / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012996:Solutions / Q000737:chemistry
D010675:Pheromones; D015800:Protozoan Proteins; D012996:Solutions; C081617:mating pheromone 2, Euplotes raikovi