Publication Date:
1996-02-23
Description:
Crystal structures of heparin-derived tetra- and hexasaccharides complexed with basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) were determined at resolutions of 1.9 and 2.2 angstroms, respectively. The heparin structure may be approximated as a helical polymer with a disaccharide rotation of 174 degrees and a translation of 8.6 angstroms along the helix axis. Both molecules bound similarly to a region of the bFGF surface containing residues asparagine-28, arginine-121, lysine-126, and glutamine-135, the hexasaccharide also interacted with an additional binding site formed by lysine-27, asparagine-102, and lysine-136. No significant conformational change in bFGF occurred upon heparin oligosaccharide binding, which suggests that heparin primarily serves to juxtapose components of the FGF signal transduction pathway.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Faham, S -- Hileman, R E -- Fromm, J R -- Linhardt, R J -- Rees, D C -- GM38060/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM45162/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM08346/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Feb 23;271(5252):1116-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8599088" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Binding Sites
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Carbohydrate Conformation
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Carbohydrate Sequence
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Crystallization
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/*metabolism
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Heparin/*chemistry/metabolism
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Oligosaccharides/chemistry/metabolism
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Protein Conformation
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
