title: Crystal structure of destripeptide (B28-B30) insulin: implications for insulin dissociation.
abstract: Destripeptide (B28-B30) insulin (DTRI) is an insulin analogue that has much weaker association ability than native insulin but keeps most of its biological activity. It can be crystallized from a solution containing zinc ions at near-neutral pH. Its crystal structure has been determined by molecular replacement and refined at 1.9 A resolution. DTRI in the crystal exists as a loose hexamer compared with 2Zn insulin. The hexamer only contains one zinc ion that coordinates to the B10 His residues of three monomers. Although residues B28-B30 are located in the monomer-monomer interface within a dimer, the removal of them can simultaneously weaken both the interactions between monomers within the dimer and the interactions between dimers. Because the B-chain C-terminus of insulin is very flexible, we take the DTRI hexamer as a transition state in the native insulin dissociation process and suggest a possible dissociation process of the insulin hexamer based on the DTRI structure.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, 100101, Beijing, PR China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liang
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization; D019281:Dimerization; D004355:Drug Stability; D007328:Insulin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D015032:Zinc / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D011108:Polymers; D015032:Zinc