Biological Assembly 1  

 3D View: Structure

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A1 

Biological assembly 1 generated by PISA (software)

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 3.96 kDa 
• Atom Count: 274 
• Residue Count: 36 
• Unique protein chains: 1

2WH9

Solution structure of GxTX-1E

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb2WH9/pdb
• BMRB: 16960

• Classification: MEMBRANE PROTEIN INHIBITOR
• Organism(s): Chilobrachys guangxiensis
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2009-05-02 Released: 2010-05-26 
• Deposition Author(s): Lee, S.K., Jung, H.H., Lee, J.Y., Lee, C.W., Kim, J.I.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Calculated: 100 
• Conformers Submitted: 20 
• Selection Criteria: LOWEST TARGET FUNCTION 

Literature

Solution Structure of Gxtx-1E, a High Affinity Tarantula Toxin Interacting with Voltage Sensors in Kv2.1 Potassium Channels.

Lee, S., Milescu, M., Jung, H.H., Lee, J.Y., Bae, C.H., Lee, C.W., Kim, H.H., Swartz, K.J., Kim, J.I.

(2010) Biochemistry 49: 5134

• PubMed: 20509680 
• DOI: 10.1021/bi100246u
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  2WH9


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

GxTX-1E is a neurotoxin recently isolated from Plesiophrictus guangxiensis venom that inhibits the Kv2.1 channel in pancreatic beta-cells. The sequence of the toxin is related to those of previously studied tarantula toxins that interact with the voltage sensors in Kv channels, and GxTX-1E interacts with the Kv2.1 channel with unusually high affinity, making it particularly useful for structural and mechanistic studies. Here we determined the three-dimensional solution structure of GxTX-1E using NMR spectroscopy and compared it to that of several related tarantula toxins. The molecular structure of GxTX-1E is similar to those of tarantula toxins that target voltage sensors in Kv channels in that it contains an ICK motif, composed of beta-strands, and contains a prominent cluster of solvent-exposed hydrophobic residues surrounded by polar residues. When compared with the structure of SGTx1, a toxin for which mutagenesis data are available, the residue compositions of the two toxins are distinct in regions that are critical for activity, suggesting that their modes of binding to voltage sensors may be different. Interestingly, the structural architecture of GxTX-1E is also similar to that of JZTX-III, a tarantula toxin that interacts with Kv2.1 with low affinity. The most striking structural differences between GxTX-1E and JZTX-III are found in the orientation between the first and second cysteine loops and the C-terminal region of the toxins, suggesting that these regions of GxTX-1E are responsible for its high affinity.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Department of Life Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 500-712, South Korea.

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
GUANGXITOXIN-1EGXTX-1E	A	36	Chilobrachys guangxiensis	Mutation(s): 0
Find proteins for P84835 (Chilobrachys guangxiensis) Explore P84835  Go to UniProtKB:  P84835

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Calculated: 100 
• Conformers Submitted: 20 
• Selection Criteria: LOWEST TARGET FUNCTION 
• OLDERADO: 2WH9 Olderado

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2009-05-02 
• Released Date: 2010-05-26 
Deposition Author(s): Lee, S.K., Jung, H.H., Lee, J.Y., Lee, C.W., Kim, J.I.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2010-05-26
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2017-04-19
  Changes: Other
• Version 1.2: 2020-01-15
  Changes: Data collection, Other