title: High resolution structure, stability, and synaptotagmin binding of a truncated neuronal SNARE complex.
abstract: The structure of a truncated SNARE complex has been solved to 1.4-A resolution revealing a stabilizing salt bridge, sites of hydration, and conformational variability of the ionic central layer that were not observed in a previously published structure at 2.4-A resolution (Sutton, R. B., Fasshauer, D., Jahn, R., and Brunger, A. T. (1998) Nature 395, 347-353). The truncated complex lacks residues involved in phospholipid binding and denatures at a lower temperature than longer complexes as assessed by SDS and circular dichroism thermal melts. The truncated SNARE complex is monomeric, and it retains binding to synaptotagmin I.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: Axel T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Brunger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001704:Biopolymers; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D051381:Rats; D050600:SNARE Proteins; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D050863:Synaptotagmin I; D050857:Synaptotagmins; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins
chemical_list: D001704:Biopolymers; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D050600:SNARE Proteins; D050863:Synaptotagmin I; C494312:Syt1 protein, rat; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; D050857:Synaptotagmins