High Resolution Structure, Stability, and Synaptotagmin Binding of a Truncated Neuronal SNARE Complex
Ernst, J.A., Brunger, A.T.(2003) J Biol Chem 278: 8630-8636
- PubMed: 12496247 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M211889200
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1N7S - PubMed Abstract: 
The structure of a truncated SNARE complex has been solved to 1.4-A resolution revealing a stabilizing salt bridge, sites of hydration, and conformational variability of the ionic central layer that were not observed in a previously published structure at 2.4-A resolution (Sutton, R. B., Fasshauer, D., Jahn, R., and Brunger, A. T. (1998) Nature 395, 347-353). The truncated complex lacks residues involved in phospholipid binding and denatures at a lower temperature than longer complexes as assessed by SDS and circular dichroism thermal melts. The truncated SNARE complex is monomeric, and it retains binding to synaptotagmin I.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.