The three-dimensional structures of two isoforms of nucleoside diphosphate kinase from bovine retina

1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 1127-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane E. Ladner ◽  
Najmoutin G. Abdulaev ◽  
Dmitri L. Kakuev ◽  
Mária Tordová ◽  
Kevin D. Ridge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Site ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Ndp Kinase ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Bovine Retina ◽  
Biological Sources ◽  
Polypeptide Chains

The crystal structures of two isoforms of nucleoside diphosphate kinase from bovine retina overexpressed in Escherischia coli have been determined to 2.4 Å resolution. Both the isoforms, NBR-A and NBR-B, are hexameric and the fold of the monomer is in agreement with NDP-kinase structures from other biological sources. Although the polypeptide chains of the two isoforms differ by only two residues, they crystallize in different space groups. NBR-A crystallizes in space group P212121 with an entire hexamer in the asymmetric unit, while NBR-B crystallizes in space group P43212 with a trimer in the asymmetric unit. The highly conserved nucleotide-binding site observed in other nucleoside diphosphate kinase structures is also observed here. Both NBR-A and NBR-B were crystallized in the presence of cGMP. The nucleotide is bound with the base in the anti conformation. The NBR-A active site contained both cGMP and GDP each bound at half occupancy. Presumably, NBR-A had retained GDP (or GTP) from the purification process. The NBR-B active site contained only cGMP.

scholarly journals Multiplicity-weighted Euler's formula for symmetrically arranged space-filling polyhedra

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 580-583
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Dauter ◽  
Mariusz Jaskolski
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Group Symmetry ◽  
General Character ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Space Filling ◽  
Space Group Symmetry ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Modified Formula

The famous Euler's rule for three-dimensional polyhedra, F − E + V = 2 (F, E and V are the numbers of faces, edges and vertices, respectively), when extended to many tested cases of space-filling polyhedra such as the asymmetric unit (ASU), takes the form Fn − En + Vn = 1, where Fn, En and Vn enumerate the corresponding elements, normalized by their multiplicity, i.e. by the number of times they are repeated by the space-group symmetry. This modified formula holds for the ASUs of all 230 space groups and 17 two-dimensional planar groups as specified in the International Tables for Crystallography, and for a number of tested Dirichlet domains, suggesting that it may have a general character. The modification of the formula stems from the fact that in a symmetrical space-filling arrangement the polyhedra (such as the ASU) have incomplete bounding elements (faces, edges, vertices), since they are shared (in various degrees) with the space-filling neighbors.

Intergrowth polytypoids as modulated structures: a superspace description of the Sr n (Nb,Ti) n O3n + 2 compound series

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Elcoro ◽  
J. M. Perez-Mato ◽  
R. L. Withers
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Separation Distance ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Average Structure ◽  
Layer Stacking ◽  
Compound Series ◽  
Three Dimensional Space

A new, unified superspace approach to the structural characterization of the perovskite-related Sr n (Nb,Ti) n O3n + 2 compound series, strontium niobium/titanium oxide, is presented. To a first approximation, the structure of any member of this compound series can be described in terms of the stacking of (110)-bounded perovskite slabs, the number of atomic layers in a single perovskite slab varying systematically with composition. The various composition-dependent layer-stacking sequences can be interpreted in terms of the structural modulation of a common underlying average structure. The average interlayer separation distance is directly related to the average structure periodicity along the layer stacking direction, while an inherent modulation thereof is produced by the presence of different types of layers (particularly vacant layers) along this stacking direction. The fundamental atomic modulation is therefore occupational and can be described by means of crenel (step-like) functions which define occupational atomic domains in the superspace, similarly to what occurs for quasicrystals. While in a standard crystallographic approach, one must describe each structure (in particular the space group and cell parameters) separately for each composition, the proposed superspace model is essentially common to the whole compound series. The superspace symmetry group is unique, while the primary modulation wavevector and the width of some occupation domains vary linearly with composition. For each rational composition, the corresponding conventional three-dimensional space group can be derived from the common superspace group. The resultant possible three-dimensional space groups are in agreement with all the symmetries reported for members of the series. The symmetry-breaking phase transitions with temperature observed in many compounds can be explained in terms of a change in superspace group, again in common for the whole compound series. Inclusion of the incommensurate phases, present in many compounds of the series, lifts the analysis into a five-dimensional superspace. The various four-dimensional superspace groups reported for this incommensurate phase at different compositions are shown to be predictable from a proposed five-dimensional superspace group apparently common to the whole compound series. A comparison with the scarce number of refined structures in this system and the homologous (Nb,Ca)6Ti6O20 compound demonstrates the suitability of the proposed formalism.

Iodo-nitroarenesulfonamides: interplay of hard and soft hydrogen bonds, I...O interactions and aromatic π...π stacking interactions

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig J. Kelly ◽  
Janet M. S. Skakle ◽  
James L. Wardell ◽  
Solange M. S. V. Wardell ◽  
John N. Low ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bond ◽  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stacking Interactions ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Rotation Axes ◽  
Π Stacking ◽  
Structural Database ◽  
A Chain

Molecules of N-(4′-iodophenylsulfonyl)-4-nitroaniline, 4-O2NC6H4NHSO2C6H4I-4′ (1), are linked by three-centre I...O2N interactions into chains and these chains are linked into a three-dimensional framework by C—H...O hydrogen bonds. In the isomeric N-(4′-nitrophenylsulfonyl)-4-iodoaniline, 4-IC6H4NHSO2C6H4NO2-4′ (2), the chains generated by the I...O2N interactions are again linked into a three-dimensional framework by C—H...O hydrogen bonds. Molecules of N,N-bis(3′-nitrophenylsulfonyl)-4-iodoaniline, 4-IC6H4N(SO2C6H4NO2-3′)2 (3), lie across twofold rotation axes in space group C2/c and they are linked into chains by paired I...O=S interactions: these chains are linked into sheets by a C—H...O hydrogen bond, and the sheets are linked into a three-dimensional framework by aromatic π...π stacking interactions. In N-(4′-iodophenylsulfonyl)-3-nitroaniline, 3-O2NC6H4NHSO2C6H4I-4′ (4), there are R^2_2(8) rings formed by hard N—H...O=S hydrogen bonds and R^2_2(24) rings formed by two-centre I...nitro interactions, which together generate a chain of fused rings: the combination of a C—H...O hydrogen bond and aromatic π...π stacking interactions links the chains into sheets. Molecules of N-(4′-iodophenylsulfonyl)-4-methyl-2-nitroaniline, 4-CH3-2-O2NC6H3NHSO2C6H4I-4′ (5), are linked by N—H...O=S and C—H...O(nitro) hydrogen bonds into a chain containing alternating R^2_2(8) and R^2_2(10) rings, but there are no I...O interactions of either type. There are two molecules in the asymmetric unit of N-(4′-iodophenylsulfonyl)-2-nitroaniline, 2-O2NC6H4NHSO2C6H4I-4′ (6), and the combination of an I...O=S interaction and a hard N—H...O(nitro) hydrogen bond links the two types of molecule to form a cyclic, centrosymmetric four-component aggregate. C—H...O hydrogen bonds link these four-molecule aggregates to form a molecular ladder. Comparisons are made with structures retrieved from the Cambridge Structural Database.

Mathematical aspects of molecular replacement. IV. Measure-theoretic decompositions of motion spaces

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Chirikjian ◽  
Sajdeh Sajjadi ◽  
Bernard Shiffman ◽  
Steven M. Zucker
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Rigid Body ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Molecular Replacement ◽  
Translation Group ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
The Subject

In molecular-replacement (MR) searches, spaces of motions are explored for determining the appropriate placement of rigid-body models of macromolecules in crystallographic asymmetric units. The properties of the space of non-redundant motions in an MR search, called a `motion space', are the subject of this series of papers. This paper, the fourth in the series, builds on the others by showing that when the space group of a macromolecular crystal can be decomposed into a product of two space subgroups that share only the lattice translation group, the decomposition of the group provides different decompositions of the corresponding motion spaces. Then an MR search can be implemented by trading off between regions of the translation and rotation subspaces. The results of this paper constrain the allowable shapes and sizes of these subspaces. Special choices result when the space group is decomposed into a product of a normal Bieberbach subgroup and a symmorphic subgroup (which is a common occurrence in the space groups encountered in protein crystallography). Examples of Sohncke space groups are used to illustrate the general theory in the three-dimensional case (which is the relevant case for MR), but the general theory in this paper applies to any dimension.

Zolmitriptan oxalate and zolmitriptan camphorsulfonate: the first structural study of salt complexes of the antimigraine drug zolmitriptan

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 1186-1191
Author(s):  
Balasubramanian Sridhar ◽  
Krishnan Ravikumar ◽  
Venkatasubramanian Hariharakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Structural Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Helical Chain ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Indole Ring ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Compound I ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Compound Ii ◽  
Ring Motif

Zolmitriptan hydrogen oxalate [(S)-dimethyl(2-{5-[(2-oxo-1,3-oxazolidin-4-yl)methyl]-1H-indol-3-yl}ethyl)azanium hydrogen oxalate], C16H22N3O2+·C2HO4−, (I), and zolmitriptan camphorsulfonate [(S)-dimethyl(2-{5-[(2-oxo-1,3-oxazolidin-4-yl)methyl]-1H-indol-3-yl}ethyl)azanium (S,R)-{2-hydroxy-7,7-dimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-1-yl}methanesulfonate], C16H22N3O2+·C10H15O4S−, (II), are the first reported salt complexes of the antimigraine drug zolmitriptan. Compound (I) crystallizes in the space groupP21with two molecules of protonated zolmitriptan and two oxalate monoanions in the asymmetric unit, while compound (II) crystallizes in the space groupP212121with one protonated zolmitriptan molecule and one camphorsulfonate anion in the asymmetric unit. The orientations of the ethylamine side chain and the oxazolidinone ring with respect to the indole ring of the zolmitriptan cation are different for (I) and (II). In (I), they are oriented in opposite directions and the molecule adopts a step-like appearance, while in (II) the corresponding side chains are folded in the same direction, giving the molecule a cup-like appearance. The zolmitriptan molecules of (I) form anR22(8) dimer, while in (II) they form a helical chain with aC(11) motif. The oxalate monoanions of (I) interact with the zolmitriptan cations and extend the dimer into a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network. In (II), the camphorsulfonate anion forms anR22(15) ring motif with the zolmitriptan cation.

scholarly journals From space to superspace and back: Superspace Group Finder

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1182-1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Orlov ◽  
Lukas Palatinus ◽  
Gervais Chapuis
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Group A ◽  
Modular Composition ◽  
Three Dimensional Space

The symmetry of a commensurately modulated crystal structure can be described in two different ways: in terms of a conventional three-dimensional space group or using the superspace concept in (3 +d) dimensions. The three-dimensional space group is obtained as a real-space section of the (3 +d) superspace group. A complete network was constructed linking (3 + 1) superspace groups and the corresponding three-dimensional space groups derived from rational sections. A database has been established and is available at http://superspace.epfl.ch/finder/. It is particularly useful for finding common superspace groups for various series of modular (`composition-flexible') structures and phase transitions. The use of the database is illustrated with examples from various fields of crystal chemistry.

scholarly journals Isomers and polymorphs of (E,E)-1,4-bis(nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadienes

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Glidewell ◽  
John N. Low ◽  
Janet M. S. Skakle ◽  
James L. Wardell
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bond ◽  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stacking Interactions ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Stacking Interaction ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Π Stacking ◽  
Π Stacking Interaction ◽  
Polymorphic Forms

The structures of five of the possible six isomers of (E,E)-1,4-bis(nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene are reported, including two polymorphs of one of the isomers. (E,E)-1,4-Bis(2-nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene, C14H10N4O4 (I), crystallizes in two polymorphic forms (Ia) and (Ib) in which the molecules lie across centres of inversion in space groups P21/n and P21/c, respectively: the molecules in (Ia) and (Ib) are linked into chains by aromatic π...π stacking interactions and C—H...π(arene) hydrogen bonds, respectively. Molecules of (E,E)-1-(2-nitrophenyl)-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene (II) are linked into sheets by two independent C—H...O hydrogen bonds. The molecules of (E,E)-1,4-bis(3-nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene (III) lie across inversion centres in the space group P21/n, and a combination of a C—H...O hydrogen bond and a π...π stacking interaction links the molecules into sheets. A total of four independent C—H...O hydrogen bonds link the molecules of (E,E)-1-(3-nitrophenyl)-4-(4-nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene (IV) into sheets. In (E,E)-1,4-bis(4-nitrophenyl)-2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene (V) the molecules, which lie across centres of inversion in the space group P21/n, are linked by just two independent C—H...O hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional framework.

scholarly journals Crystals of the Arp2/3 complex in two new space groups with structural information about actin-related protein 2 and potential WASP binding sites

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 1161-1168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Jurgenson ◽  
Thomas D. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Binding Site ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
New Space

Co-crystals of the bovine Arp2/3 complex with the CA motif from N-WASP in two new space groups were analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The crystals in the orthorhombic space groupP212121contained one complex per asymmetric unit, with unit-cell parametersa= 105.48,b= 156.71,c= 177.84 Å, and diffracted to 3.9 Å resolution. The crystals in the tetragonal space groupP41contained two complexes per asymmetric unit, with unit-cell parametersa=b= 149.93,c = 265.91 Å, and diffracted to 5.0 Å resolution. The electron-density maps of both new crystal forms had densities for small segments of subdomains 1 and 2 of Arp2. Both maps had density at the binding site on Arp3 for the C-terminal EWE tripeptide from N-WASP and a binding site proposed for the C motif of N-WASP in the barbed-end groove of Arp2. The map from the tetragonal crystal form had density near the barbed end of Arp3 that may correspond to the C helix of N-WASP. The noise levels and the low resolution of the maps made the assignment of specific molecular structures for any of these CA peptides impossible.

Non-centrosymmetric racemates: space-group frequencies and conformational similarities between crystallographically independent molecules

2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjørn Dalhus ◽  
Carl Henrik Görbitz
Keyword(s):  
Cambridge Structural Database ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Molecular Superposition ◽  
Structural Database ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Independent Molecules

DL-Allylglycine (DL-2-amino-4-pentenoic acid, C5H9NO2) yields crystals with Pca21 symmetry and two crystallographically independent yet pseudo-inversion-related enantiomers. The distribution among the common space groups of other crystalline racemates with more than one molecule in the asymmetric unit has been established. The conformational similarities between crystallographically independent enantiomers in 114 non-centrosymmetric racemates were quantified using the r.m.s. deviation for a molecular superposition. The analysis shows that in the majority of crystals the conformations of the crystallographically independent molecules are very similar with mean r.m.s. deviation = 0.190 Å. In almost 80% of the structures the mean r.m.s. deviations is in the interval 0–0.2 Å. It is estimated that racemates constitute 23% of the centrosymmetric organic structures in the Cambridge Structural Database.

scholarly journals Crystal structure of strontium dinickel iron orthophosphate

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 1255-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Said Ouaatta ◽  
Abderrazzak Assani ◽  
Mohamed Saadi ◽  
Lahcen El Ammari
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Solid State ◽  
Solid State Reaction ◽  
Title Compound ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Edge Sharing Octahedra ◽  
Wyckoff Position

The title compound, SrNi2Fe(PO4)3, synthesized by solid-state reaction, crystallizes in an ordered variant of the α-CrPO4structure. In the asymmetric unit, two O atoms are in general positions, whereas all others atoms are in special positions of the space groupImma: the Sr cation and one P atom occupy the Wyckoff position 4e(mm2), Fe is on 4b(2/m), Ni and the other P atom are on 8g(2), one O atom is on 8h(m) and the other on 8i(m). The three-dimensional framework of the crystal structure is built up by [PO4] tetrahedra, [FeO6] octahedra and [Ni2O10] dimers of edge-sharing octahedra, linked through common corners or edges. This structure comprises two types of layers stacked alternately along the [100] direction. The first layer is formed by edge-sharing octahedra ([Ni2O10] dimer) linked to [PO4] tetrahedraviacommon edges while the second layer is built up from a strontium row followed by infinite chains of alternating [PO4] tetrahedra and FeO6octahedra sharing apices. The layers are held together through vertices of [PO4] tetrahedra and [FeO6] octahedra, leading to the appearance of two types of tunnels parallel to thea- andb-axis directions in which the Sr cations are located. Each Sr cation is surrounded by eight O atoms.

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