Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 3-mer - ABC 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 50604.32 
• Atom Count: 3559 
• Residue Count: 442 
• Unique protein chains: 3

1AVG

THROMBIN INHIBITOR FROM TRIATOMA PALLIDIPENNIS

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb1AVG/pdb

• Classification: COMPLEX (BLOOD COAGULATION/INHIBITOR)
• Organism(s): Bos taurus, Meccus pallidipennis
• Expression System: INSECT CELLS


• Deposited: 1997-09-16 Released: 1998-12-30 
• Deposition Author(s): Fuentes-Prior, P., Huber, R., Bode, W.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.6 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.275 
• R-Value Work: 0.184 

Literature

Structure of the thrombin complex with triabin, a lipocalin-like exosite-binding inhibitor derived from a triatomine bug.

Fuentes-Prior, P., Noeske-Jungblut, C., Donner, P., Schleuning, W.D., Huber, R., Bode, W.

(1997) Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 94: 11845-11850

• PubMed: 9342325 


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Triabin, a 142-residue protein from the saliva of the blood-sucking triatomine bug Triatoma pallidipennis, is a potent and selective thrombin inhibitor. Its stoichiometric complex with bovine alpha-thrombin was crystallized, and its crystal structure was solved by Patterson search methods and refined at 2.6-A resolution to an R value of 0.184. The analysis revealed that triabin is a compact one-domain molecule essentially consisting of an eight-stranded beta-barrel. The eight strands A to H are arranged in the order A-C-B-D-E-F-G-H, with the first four strands exhibiting a hitherto unobserved up-up-down-down topology. Except for the B-C inversion, the triabin fold exhibits the regular up-and-down topology of lipocalins. In contrast to the typical ligand-binding lipocalins, however, the triabin barrel encloses a hydrophobic core intersected by a unique salt-bridge cluster. Triabin interacts with thrombin exclusively via its fibrinogen-recognition exosite. Surprisingly, most of the interface interactions are hydrophobic. A prominent exception represents thrombin's Arg-77A side chain, which extends into a hydrophobic triabin pocket forming partially buried salt bridges with Glu-128 and Asp-135 of the inhibitor. The fully accessible active site of thrombin in this complex is in agreement with its retained hydrolytic activity toward small chromogenic substrates. Impairment of thrombin's fibrinogen converting activity or of its thrombomodulin-mediated protein C activation capacity upon triabin binding is explained by usage of overlapping interaction sites of fibrinogen, thrombomodulin, and triabin on thrombin. These data demonstrate that triabin inhibits thrombin via a novel and unique mechanism that might be of interest in the context of potential therapeutic applications.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Abteilung Strukturforschung, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.

Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
THROMBIN	L	41	Bos taurus	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: F2 EC: 3.4.21.5
Find proteins for P00735 (Bos taurus) Go to Gene View: F2 Go to UniProtKB:  P00735

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
THROMBIN	H	259	Bos taurus	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: F2 EC: 3.4.21.5
Find proteins for P00735 (Bos taurus) Go to Gene View: F2 Go to UniProtKB:  P00735

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
TRIABIN	I	142	Meccus pallidipennis	Mutation(s): 0
Find proteins for Q27049 (Meccus pallidipennis) Go to UniProtKB:  Q27049

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.6 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.275 
• R-Value Work: 0.184 
• Space Group: P 2₁ 2₁ 2₁

Unit Cell:

Length (Å)	Angle (°)
a = 44.840	α = 90.00
b = 67.230	β = 90.00
c = 183.490	γ = 90.00

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
ROTAVATA	data reduction
AMoRE	phasing
X-PLOR	refinement
AGROVATA	data reduction
MOSFLM	data reduction
ROTAVATA)	data scaling
CCP4	data scaling

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 1997-09-16 
• Released Date: 1998-12-30 
• Deposition Author(s): Fuentes-Prior, P., Huber, R., Bode, W.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 1998-12-30
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2008-03-25
  Type: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
  Type: Version format compliance