Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of the N-domain of the Wilson disease associated protein

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2009 Jun 1;65(Pt 6):621-4. doi: 10.1107/S1744309109017023. Epub 2009 May 22.

Abstract

Wilson disease associated protein (ATP7B) is essential for copper transport in human cells. Mutations that affect ATP7B function result in Wilson's disease, a chronic copper toxicosis. Disease-causing mutations within the N-domain of ATP7B (WND) are known to disrupt ATP binding, but a high-resolution X-ray structure of the ATP-binding site has not been reported. The N-domain was modified to delete the disordered loop comprising residues His1115-Asp1138 (WNDDelta(1115-1138)). Unlike the wild-type N-domain, WNDDelta(1115-1138) formed good-quality crystals. Synchrotron diffraction data have been collected from WNDDelta(1115-1138) at the Canadian Light Source. A native WNDDelta(1115-1138) crystal diffracted to 1.7 A resolution and belonged to space group P4(2)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = 39.2, b = 39.2, c = 168.9 A. MAD data were collected to 2.7 A resolution from a SeMet-derivative crystal with unit-cell parameters a = 38.4, b = 38.4, c = 166.7 A. The WNDDelta(1115-1138) structure is likely to be solved by phasing from multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) experiments.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adenosine Triphosphatases / chemistry*
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases / genetics
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases / isolation & purification
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases / metabolism
  • Adenosine Triphosphate / metabolism
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Binding Sites
  • Cation Transport Proteins / chemistry*
  • Cation Transport Proteins / genetics
  • Cation Transport Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Cation Transport Proteins / metabolism
  • Conserved Sequence
  • Copper / chemistry*
  • Copper / metabolism
  • Copper-Transporting ATPases
  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray*
  • Data Collection
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Hepatolenticular Degeneration / genetics
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Structure, Secondary
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Synchrotrons
  • Transformation, Bacterial
  • X-Ray Diffraction*

Substances

  • Cation Transport Proteins
  • Copper
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases
  • ATP7B protein, human
  • Copper-Transporting ATPases