Download MendeleyConvenient method for resolving degeneracies due to symmetry of the magnetic susceptibility tensor and its application to pseudo contact shift-based protein-protein complex structure determination.
Kobashigawa, Y., Saio, T., Ushio, M., Sekiguchi, M., Yokochi, M., Ogura, K., Inagaki, F.(2012) J Biomol NMR 53: 53-63
- PubMed: 22487935
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-012-9623-8
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2RSE - PubMed Abstract:
Pseudo contact shifts (PCSs) induced by paramagnetic lanthanide ions fixed in a protein frame provide long-range distance and angular information, and are valuable for the structure determination of protein-protein and protein-ligand complexes. We have been developing a lanthanide-binding peptide tag (hereafter LBT) anchored at two points via a peptide bond and a disulfide bond to the target proteins. However, the magnetic susceptibility tensor displays symmetry, which can cause multiple degenerated solutions in a structure calculation based solely on PCSs. Here we show a convenient method for resolving this degeneracy by changing the spacer length between the LBT and target protein. We applied this approach to PCS-based rigid body docking between the FKBP12-rapamycin complex and the mTOR FRB domain, and demonstrated that degeneracy could be resolved using the PCS restraints obtained from two-point anchored LBT with two different spacer lengths. The present strategy will markedly increase the usefulness of two-point anchored LBT for protein complex structure determination.
Organizational Affiliation:
Department of Structural Biology, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, N-21, W-11, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
