Canavan Disease: Task 04 - Journal

Task 04 Working Log

data gathering

• reference structure of protein -> <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=2I3C">2I3C</a>
• identical sequence with bound active center (however not NAA but N-Hydroxy(methyl)phosphoryl-L-aspartate that is an intermediate form) -> <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=2O4H">2O4H</a>
• identical sequence with unbound active centre -> <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=2Q51">2Q51</a>
• sequence similarity >60% (aspa from rat) -> <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=2GU2">2GU2</a>
• sequence similarity <30% apsa familiy protein from _mesorhizobium loti_, -> <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=2QJ8">2QJ8</a> retrieved by looking at blast result for 2I3C and choosing a protein that is not in the 30% similarity cluster. then looked at 30% similarity cluster for 2QJ8 and double checked if 2I3C is not present either
• CATH -> no cath entry for ASPA however search via FASTA delivers Cytosol amino peptidase-like domain with an evalue of 1.9E-12. Further investigating the EC diversity suggests that ASPA is contained in this Superfamily as the EC number is named. Therefore the asumed CATH number for ASPA is 3.40.630.10
• Sequence with similar CATH classification for CAT <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=1AYE">1AYE</a>
• Sequence with similar CATH classification for CA <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=1BKJ">1BKJ</a>
• Sequence with similar CATH classification for C <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/derivedData.do?structureId=1BD0">1BD0</a>
• Sequence with different CATH classification <a href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=1b3u">1B3U</a>

pymol

• loaded sequneces with "fetch XXXX"
• for 2I3C, 2O4H, 2Q51, 2GU2 and 2QJ8 there was a selection of only the chain A created (via "select XXXX_A, XXXX and chain A")
• the alignment was done from the action menue -> align -> to selection -> 2I3C (alternatively via align XXXX, 2I3C_A however this results in slightly different RMSD most certainly due to the fact that the alignemnt via the action menu does some additional preselection)
• back ground set to white
• zinc via selection tool selcted as sphere
• all structures represented as cartoon
• all structures colored with one color
• 2I3C always orange
• ray
• save png with "png XXXX.png"
• RMSDs:
  • 2O4H = 0.341
  • 2Q51 = 0.172
  • 2GU2 = 0.619
  • 2QJ8 = 7.001

SSAP

• 2Q51 seems to be not accepted by SSAP

LGA

• used the web interface

CE

• used the web interface by PDB (jCE)
• stored only the overview