Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 29118.80 
• Atom Count: 1882 
• Residue Count: 256 
• Unique protein chains: 1

2JW8

Solution structure of stereo-array isotope labelled (SAIL) C-terminal dimerization domain of SARS coronavirus nucleocapsid protein

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb2JW8/pdb
• BMRB: 15511

• Classification: VIRAL PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Human SARS coronavirus
• Expression System: Cell-free synthesis


• Deposited: 2007-10-06 Released: 2008-08-26 
• Deposition Author(s): Takeda, M., Chang, C., Ikeya, T., Guntert, P., Chang, Y., Hsu, Y., Huang, T., Kainosho, M.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Calculated: 200 
• Conformers Submitted: 20 
• Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 

Literature

Solution structure of the c-terminal dimerization domain of SARS coronavirus nucleocapsid protein solved by the SAIL-NMR method

Takeda, M., Chang, C.K., Ikeya, T., Chang, Y.H., Hsu, Y.L., Huang, T.H., Kainosho, M.

(2008) J.Mol.Biol. 380: 608-622

• PubMed: 18561946 
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.11.093


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) nucleocapsid protein (NP) contains a potential RNA-binding region in its N-terminal portion and also serves as a dimerization domain by forming a homodimer with a molecular mass of 28 kDa. So far, the structure determination of the SARS-CoV NP CTD in solution has been impeded by the poor quality of NMR spectra, especially for aromatic resonances. We have recently developed the stereo-array isotope labeling (SAIL) method to overcome the size problem of NMR structure determination by utilizing a protein exclusively composed of stereo- and regio-specifically isotope-labeled amino acids. Here, we employed the SAIL method to determine the high-quality solution structure of the SARS-CoV NP CTD by NMR. The SAIL protein yielded less crowded and better resolved spectra than uniform (13)C and (15)N labeling, and enabled the homodimeric solution structure of this protein to be determined. The NMR structure is almost identical with the previously solved crystal structure, except for a disordered putative RNA-binding domain at the N-terminus. Studies of the chemical shift perturbations caused by the binding of single-stranded DNA and mutational analyses have identified the disordered region at the N-termini as the prime site for nucleic acid binding. In addition, residues in the beta-sheet region also showed significant perturbations. Mapping of the locations of these residues onto the helical model observed in the crystal revealed that these two regions are parts of the interior lining of the positively charged helical groove, supporting the hypothesis that the helical oligomer may form in solution.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.

Macromolecules

Find similar proteins by: Sequence  |  Structure

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Nucleocapsid protein	A, B	128	Human SARS coronavirus	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: N
Find proteins for P59595 (Human SARS coronavirus) Go to UniProtKB:  P59595

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Calculated: 200 
• Conformers Submitted: 20 
• Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 
• Olderado: 2JW8 Olderado

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2007-10-06 
• Released Date: 2008-08-26 
• Deposition Author(s): Takeda, M., Chang, C., Ikeya, T., Guntert, P., Chang, Y., Hsu, Y., Huang, T., Kainosho, M.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2008-08-26
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2011-07-13
  Type: Version format compliance