A COMPUTER‐GENERATED THREE‐DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE B CHAIN OF BOVINE α‐THROMBIN*
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 370 (1), 496-510
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1981.tb29758.x
Abstract
A computer graphic molecular display system has been used to construct a three-dimensional model of the B chain of bovine thrombin. The model is derived from the bovine alpha-chymotrypsin structure as determined by X-ray crystallographic studies. The amino acid sequence of bovine thrombin has been substituted for that of alpha-chymotrypsin, preserving the beta-barrel structure and maximizing homology of the amino acid sequence of the two proteins. With the exception of an area in the vicinity of the specificity binding pocket, most of the changes observed in thrombin occur on the surface of the molecule. The most notable changes observed in the model are the increases on the surface of positively charged (arginine and lysine) and negatively charged (glutamate and aspartate) residues. A glutamate replaces methionine 192 near the entrance to the specificity binding pocket. The nature of this site was further altered by the substitution of an aspartate for serine 189 and an alanine for serine 190. The structure of the resulting specificity binding pocket is consistent with that of serine proteases, which have trypsin-like substrate specificity. The computer graphics molecular display system has been used to insert models of synthetic thrombin inhibitors into the active site of the thrombin B chain model. With the model, it has been possible to correlate the interaction of thrombin with the observed binding constants of two inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases, p-amidinophenylmethylsulfonylfluoride (Ki = 1.27 x 10(-6) M) and m-[m-(trifluoromethyl)phenoxypropoxy]benzamidine (KD = 2.9 x 10(-6) M).Keywords
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