Publication Date:
2000-10-06
Description:
Memapsin 2 (beta-secretase) is a membrane-associated aspartic protease involved in the production of beta-amyloid peptide in Alzheimer's disease and is a major target for drug design. We determined the crystal structure of the protease domain of human memapsin 2 complexed to an eight-residue inhibitor at 1.9 angstrom resolution. The active site of memapsin 2 is more open and less hydrophobic than that of other human aspartic proteases. The subsite locations from S4 to S2' are well defined. A kink of the inhibitor chain at P2' and the change of chain direction of P3' and P4' may be mimicked to provide inhibitor selectivity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hong, L -- Koelsch, G -- Lin, X -- Wu, S -- Terzyan, S -- Ghosh, A K -- Zhang, X C -- Tang, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Oct 6;290(5489):150-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Protein Studies Program and Crystallography Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11021803" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases
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Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases/*chemistry/metabolism
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Catalytic Domain
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Endopeptidases
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Humans
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Models, Molecular
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Oligopeptides/*metabolism
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Protease Inhibitors/chemistry/*metabolism
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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
