General Information

The entry DI2010015 describes the same interaction with the disordered partner bearing different post-translational modification(s).

Database Accession: DI2010016

Name: Complex of human alpha-thrombin and acetylated recombinant hirudin

PDB ID: 1c1u PDB

Experimental method: X-ray (1.75 Å)

Source organism: Hirudo medicinalis / Homo sapiens

Proof of disorder: Confirmed

Primary publication of the structure:

Katz BA, Clark JM, Finer-Moore JS, Jenkins TE, Johnson CR, Ross MJ, Luong C, Moore WR, Stroud RM
Design of potent selective zinc-mediated serine protease inhibitors.

(1998) Nature 391: 608-12

PMID: 9468142 PubMed

Abstract:

Many serine proteases are targets for therapeutic intervention because they often play key roles in disease. Small molecule inhibitors of serine proteases with high affinity are especially interesting as they could be used as scaffolds from which to develop drugs selective for protease targets. One such inhibitor is bis(5-amidino-2-benzimidazolyl)methane (BABIM), standing out as the best inhibitor of trypsin (by a factor of over 100) in a series of over 60 relatively closely related analogues. By probing the structural basis of inhibition, we discovered, using crystallographic methods, a new mode of high-affinity binding in which a Zn2+ ion is tetrahedrally coordinated between two chelating nitrogens of BABIM and two active site residues, His57 and Ser 195. Zn2+, at subphysiological levels, enhances inhibition by over 10(3)-fold. The distinct Zn2+ coordination geometry implies a strong dependence of affinity on substituents. This unique structural paradigm has enabled development of potent, highly selective, Zn2+-dependent inhibitors of several therapeutically important serine proteases, using a physiologically ubiquitous metal ion.


Function and Biology Annotations from the GeneOntology database. Only terms that fit at least two of the interacting proteins are shown.

Molecular function: not assigned

Biological process:

negative regulation of proteolysis Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the hydrolysis of a peptide bond or bonds within a protein. GeneOntology

Cellular component:

extracellular region The space external to the outermost structure of a cell. For cells without external protective or external encapsulating structures this refers to space outside of the plasma membrane. This term covers the host cell environment outside an intracellular parasite. GeneOntology

Structure Summary Structural annotations of the participating protein chains.

Entry contents: 3 distinct polypeptide molecules

Chains: I, H, L

Notes: No modifications of the original PDB file.

Chain I

Name: Hirudin-2 Disordered Confirmed

Source organism: Hirudo medicinalis

Length: 11 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to PDB SEQRESDFEEIPEEYLQ

The sequence contains the following modified/non-standard residues:

• O-sulfo-L-tyrosine (Y) at position 63 (PDB position: 63)

UniProtKB AC: P28504 (positions: 55-65) UniProt Coverage: 16.9%

UniRef90 AC: UniRef90_P09945 (positions: 55-65) UniRef90

Chain H

Name: Prothrombin Ordered component

Source organism: Homo sapiens

Length: 259 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to PDB SEQRESIVEGSDAEIGMSPWQVMLFRKSPQELLCGASLISDRWVLTAAHCLLYPPWDKNFTENDLLVRIGKHSRTRYERNIEKISMLEKIYIHPRYNWRENLDRDIALMKLKKPVAFSDYIHPVCLPDRETAASLLQAGYKGRVTGWGNLKETWTANVGKGQPSVLQVVNLPIVERPVCKDSTRIRITDNMFCAGYKPDEGKRGDACEGDSGGPFVMKSPFNNRWYQMGIVSWGEGCDRDGKYGFYTHVFRLKKWIQKVIDQFGE

UniProtKB AC: P00734 (positions: 364-622) UniProt Coverage: 41.6%

UniRef90 AC: UniRef90_P00734 (positions: 364-622) UniRef90

Chain L

Name: Prothrombin Ordered component

Source organism: Homo sapiens

Length: 36 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to PDB SEQRESTFGSGEADCGLRPLFEKKSLEDKTERELLESYIDGR

UniProtKB AC: P00734 (positions: 328-363) UniProt Coverage: 5.8%

UniRef90 AC: UniRef90_P00734 (positions: 328-363) UniRef90

Evidence Evidence demonstrating that the participating proteins are unstructured prior to the interaction and their folding is coupled to binding.

Chain I: Disordered Confirmed

The interacting region of hirudin has been shown to be intrinsically disordered (PMID: 1335515). The 50-65 region described in DisProt entry DP00137 covers 25% of the sequence present in the structure.

Chain H: Ordered component

Thrombin consists of a large and a small subunit. Trypsin domain of the large subunit involved in the interaction is known to adopt a stable structure in isolation (see Pfam domain PF00089). A solved structure of the thrombin dimer is represented by PDB ID 1jou.

Chain L: Ordered component

Thrombin consists of a large and a small subunit. Trypsin domain of the large subunit involved in the interaction is known to adopt a stable structure in isolation (see Pfam domain PF00089). A solved structure of the thrombin dimer is represented by PDB ID 1jou.

Related Structure(s) Structures from the PDB that contain the same number of proteins, and the proteins from the two structures show a sufficient degree of pairwise similarity, i.e. they belong to the same UniRef90 cluster (the full proteins exhibit at least 90% sequence identity) and convey roughly the same region to their respective interactions (the two regions from the two proteins share a minimum of 70% overlap).

There are 40 related structures in the Protein Data Bank:


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