Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 4275.79 
• Atom Count: 293 
• Residue Count: 37 
• Unique protein chains: 1

1EIT

NMR STUDY OF MU-AGATOXIN

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb1EIT/pdb

• Classification: NEUROTOXIN
• Organism(s): Agelenopsis aperta


• Deposited: 1995-12-14 Released: 1996-04-03 
• Deposition Author(s): Omecinsky, D.O., Reily, M.D.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Submitted: 10 

Literature

Three-dimensional structure analysis of mu-agatoxins: further evidence for common motifs among neurotoxins with diverse ion channel specificities.

Omecinsky, D.O., Holub, K.E., Adams, M.E., Reily, M.D.

(1996) Biochemistry 35: 2836-2844

• PubMed: 8608119 
• DOI: 10.1021/bi952605r
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  1EIV, 1EIU


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

We report the solution structure of mu-agatoxin-I (mu-Aga-I) and model structures of the closely related mu-agatoxin-IV (mu-Aga-IV) which were isolated from venom of the American funnel web spider, Agelenopsis aperta. These toxins, which modify the kinetics of neuronal voltage-activated sodium channels in insects, are C-terminally amidated peptides composed to 36 amino acids, including four internal disulfide bonds. The structure of mu-Aga-I was determined by NMR and distance geometry/molecular dynamics calculations. Structural calculations were carried out using 256 interresidue NOE-derived distance restraints and 25 angle restraints obtained from vicinal coupling constants. The peptide contains eight cysteines involved in disulfide bonds, the pairings of which were uncertain and had to be determined from preliminary structure calculations. The toxin has an average rmsd of 0.89 A for the backbone atoms among 38 converged conformers. The structure consists of a well-defined triple-stranded beta-sheet involving residues 7-9, 20-24, and 30-34 and four tight turns. A homologous peptide, mu-Aga-IV, exhibited two distinct and equally populated conformations in solution, which complicated spectral analysis. Analysis of sequential NOE's confirmed that the conformers arose from cis and trans peptide bonds involving a proline at position 15. Models were developed for both conformers based on the mu-Aga-I structure. Our structural data show that the mu-agatoxins, although specific modifiers of sodium channels, share common secondary and tertiary structural motifs with phylogenetically diverse peptide toxins targeting a variety of channel types. The mu-agatoxins add voltage-sensitive sodium channel activity to a growing list of neurotoxic effects elicited by peptide toxins which share the same global fold yet differ in their animal origin and ion channel selectivity.

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Related Citations: 

• Structure-Activity Relationships for P-Type Calcium Channel-Selective Omega-Agatoxins
  Reily, M.D.,Holub, K.E.,Gray, W.R.,Norris, T.M.,Adams, M.E.
  (1994) Nat.Struct.Mol.Biol. 1: 853
• Structure and Properties of Omega-Aga-Ivb, a New Antagonist of P-Type Calcium Channels
  Adams, M.E.,Mintz, I.M.,Reily, M.D.,Thanabal, V.,Bean, B.P.
  (1993) Mol.Pharmacol. 44: 681
• The Solution Structure of Omega-Aga-Ivb, a P-Type Calcium Channel Antagonist from the Venom of Agelenopsis Aperta
  Reily, M.D.,Thanabal, V.,Adams, M.E.
  (1995) J.Biomol.NMR 5: 122
• Purification and Characterization of Two Classes of Neurotoxins from the Funnel Web Spider, Agelenopsis Aperta
  Skinner, W.S.,Adams, M.E.,Quistad, G.B.,Kataoka, H.,Cesarin, B.J.,Enderlin, F.E.,Schooley, D.A.,Bean, B.P.
  (1989) J.Biol.Chem. 264: 2150




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Organizational Affiliation: 

Department of Chemistry, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division of Warner Lambert Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA.

Macromolecules

Find similar proteins by: Sequence  |  Structure

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
MU-AGATOXIN-I	A	37	Agelenopsis aperta	Mutation(s): 0
Find proteins for P11057 (Agelenopsis aperta) Go to UniProtKB:  P11057

Small Molecules

Modified Residues  1 Unique
ID	Chains	Type	Formula	2D Diagram	Parent
NH2	A	NON-POLYMER	H2 N		--

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Submitted: 10 
• Olderado: 1EIT Olderado

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 1995-12-14 
• Released Date: 1996-04-03 
• Deposition Author(s): Omecinsky, D.O., Reily, M.D.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 1996-04-03
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2008-03-03
  Type: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
  Type: Version format compliance