Article
Short hydrogen bonds in photoactive yellow protein.
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography - 1 Jun 2004
Anderson Spencer, Crosson Sean, Moffat Keith
Abstract excerpt
Eight high-resolution crystal structures of the ground state of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) solved under a variety of conditions reveal that its chromophore is stabilized by two unusually short hydrogen bonds. Both Tyr42 Oeta and Glu46 Oepsilon are separated from the chromophore phenolate oxygen by less than the sum of their atomic van der Waals radii, 2.6 angstroms. This is characteristic of strong hydrogen...
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