Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 16966.87 
• Atom Count: 1188 
• Residue Count: 148 
• Unique protein chains: 1

2KUN

Three dimensional structure of HuPrP(90-231 M129 Q212P)

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb2KUN/pdb
• BMRB: 16743

• Classification: MEMBRANE PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Homo sapiens
• Expression System: Escherichia coli
• Mutation(s): 1 


• Deposited: 2010-02-23 Released: 2010-08-25 
• Deposition Author(s): Ilc, G., Giachin, G., Jaremko, M., Jaremko, L., Zhukov, I., Plavec, J., Legname, G., Benetti, F.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

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

Literature

NMR structure of the human prion protein with the pathological Q212P mutation reveals unique structural features.

Ilc, G., Giachin, G., Jaremko, M., Jaremko, L., Benetti, F., Plavec, J., Zhukov, I., Legname, G.

(2010) Plos One 5: e11715-e11715

• PubMed: 20661422 
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011715


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders caused by an aberrant accumulation of the misfolded cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) conformer, denoted as infectious scrapie isoform or PrP(Sc). In inherited human prion diseases, mutations in the open reading frame of the PrP gene (PRNP) are hypothesized to favor spontaneous generation of PrP(Sc) in specific brain regions leading to neuronal cell degeneration and death. Here, we describe the NMR solution structure of the truncated recombinant human PrP from residue 90 to 231 carrying the Q212P mutation, which is believed to cause Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome, a familial prion disease. The secondary structure of the Q212P mutant consists of a flexible disordered tail (residues 90-124) and a globular domain (residues 125-231). The substitution of a glutamine by a proline at the position 212 introduces novel structural differences in comparison to the known wild-type PrP structures. The most remarkable differences involve the C-terminal end of the protein and the beta(2)-alpha(2) loop region. This structure might provide new insights into the early events of conformational transition of PrP(C) into PrP(Sc). Indeed, the spontaneous formation of prions in familial cases might be due to the disruptions of the hydrophobic core consisting of beta(2)-alpha(2) loop and alpha(3) helix.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Slovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Major prion protein	A	148	Homo sapiens	Mutations: P123Q Gene Names: PRNP (ALTPRP, PRIP, PRP)
Find proteins for P04156 (Homo sapiens) Go to Gene View: PRNP Go to UniProtKB:  P04156

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

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

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2010-02-23 
• Released Date: 2010-08-25 
• Deposition Author(s): Ilc, G., Giachin, G., Jaremko, M., Jaremko, L., Zhukov, I., Plavec, J., Legname, G., Benetti, F.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2010-08-25
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2011-07-13
  Type: Version format compliance