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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Isolated insulin monomers, the dimer and higher aggregates from the 2 Zn crystal structure are subjected to convergent energy minimization in Cartesian co-ordinates using a force-field that includes the position of all hydrogen atoms. The minimizations are found, for the first time, to produce conformational changes of appreciable magnitude, which agree well with observed structural differences between monomers in the 2 Zn crystal and with the mechanism proposed previously for the coupling between deformations in different parts of the molecule. Our results also suggest that insulin would tend to adopt a molecule 1-like conformation in the absence of crystal packing forces, and that dimer formation is not at the origin of the observed asymmetry in the 2 Zn crystal.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0022-2836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
181
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
317-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Simulation of conformational changes in 2 Zn insulin.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't