Fragment-based identification of determinants of conformational and spectroscopic change at the ricin active site
Carra, J.H., McHugh, C.A., Mulligan, S., Machiesky, L.M., Soares, A.S., Millard, C.B.(2007) BMC Struct Biol 7: 72-72
- PubMed: 17986339 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6807-7-72
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2P8N, 2PJO, 2R2X, 2R3D - PubMed Abstract: 
Ricin is a potent toxin and known bioterrorism threat with no available antidote. The ricin A-chain (RTA) acts enzymatically to cleave a specific adenine base from ribosomal RNA, thereby blocking translation. To understand better the relationship between ligand binding and RTA active site conformational change, we used a fragment-based approach to find a minimal set of bonding interactions able to induce rearrangements in critical side-chain positions ...