Publication Date:
1991-05-03
Description:
The x-ray crystal structure of recombinant human interferon-gamma has been determined with the use of multiple-isomorphous-replacement techniques. Interferon-gamma, which is dimeric in solution, crystallizes with two dimers related by a noncrystallographic twofold axis in the asymmetric unit. The protein is primarily alpha helical, with six helices in each subunit that comprise approximately 62 percent of the structure; there is no beta sheet. The dimeric structure of human interferon-gamma is stabilized by the intertwining of helices across the subunit interface with multiple intersubunit interactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ealick, S E -- Cook, W J -- Vijay-Kumar, S -- Carson, M -- Nagabhushan, T L -- Trotta, P P -- Bugg, C E -- CA-13148/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 May 3;252(5006):698-702.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1902591" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Crystallization
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Glycosylation
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Humans
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Interferon-gamma/*chemistry
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Macromolecular Substances
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Protein Conformation
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Recombinant Proteins
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Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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X-Ray Diffraction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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