Perhaps this will be of some use:
We've recently published a phosphatase paper showing two structures - one
was a soak, the other - a co-crystal. Same ligand and same protein in both,
and virtually the same crystallization conditions. The difference in ligand
binding was like night and day.
http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?sx5059
Artem
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Subject: : misbound ligand examples?
A biochemist friend asked for examples of cases were a protein was
co-crystallized with or soaked in a ligand that bound in the wrong place -
say, because the ligand used wasn't quite the right one or because other
important ligands were absent.
I'm sure such examples are out there, especially when soaks were done at
high concentrations, but I'm having trouble thinking of concrete examples.
Help?
thanks,
Phoebe Rice
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