title: Structural investigation of the ligand binding domain of the zebrafish VDR in complexes with 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 and Gemini: purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis.
abstract: The nuclear receptor of Vitamin D can be activated by a large number of agonist molecules with a wide spectrum in their stereochemical framework. Up to now most of our structural information related to the protein-ligand complex formation is based on an engineered ligand binding domain (LBD) of the human receptor. We now have extended our database, using a wild-type LBD from zebrafish that confirms the previously reported results and allows to investigate the binding of ligands that induce significant conformational changes at the protein level.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biologie et de Génomique Structurales, IGBMC, CNRS/INSERM/Université Louis Pasteur, Parc d'Innovation BP10142, 67404 Illkirch cedex, France.
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ciesielski
authors.forename: Natacha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rochel
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mitschler
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kouzmenko
authors.forename: Dino
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moras
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002117:Calcitriol / Q000378:metabolism*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D018167:Receptors, Calcitriol / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015027:Zebrafish
chemical_list: D018167:Receptors, Calcitriol; D002117:Calcitriol