8CS0

Crystal structure of alien DNA CTSZZPBSBSZPPBAG in a host-guest complex with the N-terminal fragment of Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb8CS0/pdb
• NAKB: 8CS0

• Classification: DNA BINDING PROTEIN/DNA
• Organism(s): Moloney murine leukemia virus, synthetic construct
• Expression System: Escherichia coli
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2022-05-12 Released: 2023-05-17 
• Deposition Author(s): Georgiadis, M.M.
• Funding Organization(s): National Science Foundation (NSF, United States)

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.65 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.243 
• R-Value Work: 0.209 
• R-Value Observed: 0.211 

Literature

Alien DNA visualized at high resolution in A- and B-forms

Georgiadis, M.M., Hoshika, S., Shukla, M., Benner, S.A.

To be published.

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Cyclic - C2  (Explore in 3D)
Global Stoichiometry: Homo 2-mer - A2 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 35.06 kDa 
• Atom Count: 2,487 
• Modelled Residue Count: 263 
• Deposited Residue Count: 282 
• Unique protein chains: 1
• Unique nucleic acid chains: 2

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
reverse transcriptase	A	266	Moloney murine leukemia virus	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: gag-pro-pol
UniProt
Find proteins for P03355 (Moloney murine leukemia virus (isolate Shinnick)) Explore P03355  Go to UniProtKB:  P03355

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Length	Organism	Image
DNA (5'-D(*CP*TP*(JSP)P*(1W5)P*(1W5)P*(1WA)P*(IGU)P*(JSP))-3')	B	8	synthetic construct

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Length	Organism	Image
DNA (5'-D(P*(IGU)P*(JSP)P*(1W5)P*(1WA)P*(1WA)P*(IGU)P*AP*G)-3')	C [auth G]	8	synthetic construct

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.65 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.243 
• R-Value Work: 0.209 
• R-Value Observed: 0.211 
• Space Group: P 2₁ 2₁ 2

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 55.305	α = 90
b = 145.928	β = 90
c = 46.904	γ = 90

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
Aimless	data scaling
PHENIX	refinement
PDB_EXTRACT	data extraction
XDS	data reduction
PHASER	phasing

Structure Validation

Entry History & Funding Information

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2023-05-17 
Deposition Author(s): Georgiadis, M.M.

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Funding Organization	Location	Grant Number
National Science Foundation (NSF, United States)	United States	1939086

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2023-05-17
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2023-10-25
  Changes: Data collection, Refinement description