Abstract
Human brain-type fatty acid-binding protein (B-FABP) has been recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli both unlabelled and 15N-enriched for structure investigation in solution using high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The sequential assignments of the 1H and 15N resonances were achieved by applying multidimensional homo- and heteronuclear NMR experiments. The ensemble of the 20 final energy-minimized structures, representing human B-FABP in solution, have been calculated based on a total of 2490 meaningful distance constraints. The overall B-FABP structure exhibits the typical backbone conformation described for other members of the FABP family, consisting of ten antiparallel β-strands (βA to βJ) that form two almost orthogonal β-sheets, a helix-turn-helix motif that closes the β-barrel on one side, and a short N-terminal helical loop. A comparison with the crystal structure of the same protein complexed with docosahexaenoic acid [12] reveals only minor differences in both secondary structure and overall topology. Moreover, the NMR data indicate a close structural relationship between human B-FABP and heart-type FABP with respect to fatty acid binding inside the protein cavity. (Mol Cell Biochem 239: 61–68, 2002)
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Abbreviations
- 2D:
-
two-dimensional
- 3D:
-
three-dimensional
- CRBP:
-
cellular retinol-binding protein
- CRABP:
-
cellular retinoic acid-binding protein
- DHA:
-
docosahexaenoic acid
- FA:
-
fatty acid
- FABP:
-
fatty acid-binding protein
- A-FABP:
-
adipocyte-type FABP
- B-FABP:
-
brain-type FABP
- H-FABP:
-
heart-type FABP
- I-FABP:
-
intestinal-type FABP
- ILBP:
-
ileal lipid-binding protein
- L-FABP:
-
liver-type FABP
- M-FABP:
-
myelin-type FABP
- HSQC:
-
heteronuclear single-quantum correlation
- NOE:
-
nuclear Overhauser effect
- NOESY:
-
nuclear Overhauser enhancement and exchange spectroscopy
- TOCSY:
-
total correlation spectroscopy
- RMSD:
-
root-mean-square deviation
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Rademacher, M., Zimmerman, A.W., Rüterjans, H., Veerkamp, J.H., Lücke, C. (2002). Solution structure of fatty acid-binding protein from human brain. In: Glatz, J.F.C. (eds) Cellular Lipid Binding Proteins. Developments in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol 38. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9270-3_8
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