8SQO

Crystal Structure of Bacterioferritin (Bfr) from Brucella abortus (magnesium bound, F16L mutant)

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb8SQO/pdb

• Classification: METAL BINDING PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Brucella abortus 2308
• Expression System: Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
• Mutation(s): Yes 


• Deposited: 2023-05-04 Released: 2023-05-17 
• Deposition Author(s): Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)
• Funding Organization(s): National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID), National Institutes of Health/Office of the Director

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.55 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.177 
• R-Value Work: 0.161 
• R-Value Observed: 0.161 

Literature

Crystal Structure of Bacterioferritin (Bfr) from Brucella abortus (magnesium bound, F16L mutant)

Lovell, S., Liu, L., Battaile, K.P.

To be published.

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Octahedral - O  (Explore in 3D)
Global Stoichiometry: Homo 24-mer - A24 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)

Biological Assembly Evidence: gel filtration

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 19.82 kDa 
• Atom Count: 1,531 
• Modelled Residue Count: 158 
• Deposited Residue Count: 165 
• Unique protein chains: 1

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Bacterioferritin	A	165	Brucella abortus 2308	Mutation(s): 1  Gene Names: bfr, BAB2_0675 EC: 1.16.3.1
UniProt
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Small Molecules

Ligands 4 Unique
ID	Chains	Name / Formula / InChI Key	2D Diagram
HEM (Subject of Investigation/LOI)	I [auth A]	PROTOPORPHYRIN IX CONTAINING FE C34 H32 Fe N4 O4 KABFMIBPWCXCRK-RGGAHWMASA-L
SO4	D [auth A], E [auth A]	SULFATE ION O4 S QAOWNCQODCNURD-UHFFFAOYSA-L
CL	F [auth A], G [auth A], H [auth A]	CHLORIDE ION Cl VEXZGXHMUGYJMC-UHFFFAOYSA-M
MG	B [auth A], C [auth A]	MAGNESIUM ION Mg JLVVSXFLKOJNIY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.55 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.177 
• R-Value Work: 0.161 
• R-Value Observed: 0.161 
• Space Group: P 4 3 2
• Diffraction Data: https://doi.org/10.18430/M38SQO

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 112.91	α = 90
b = 112.91	β = 90
c = 112.91	γ = 90

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
PHENIX	refinement
Aimless	data scaling
XDS	data reduction
PHASER	phasing

Structure Validation

Entry History & Funding Information

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2023-05-17 
Deposition Author(s): Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)

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Funding Organization	Location	Grant Number
National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)	United States	HHSN272201700059C
National Institutes of Health/Office of the Director	United States	S10OD030394

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2023-05-17
  Type: Initial release