Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Atomic resolution protein allostery from the multi-state structure of a PDZ domain

  • Dzmitry Ashkinadze,
  • Harindranath Kadavath,
  • Aditya Pokharna,
  • Celestine N. Chi,
  • Michael Friedmann,
  • Dean Strotz,
  • Pratibha Kumari,
  • Martina Minges,
  • Riccardo Cadalbert,
  • Stefan Königl,
  • Peter Güntert,
  • Beat Vögeli,
  • Roland Riek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33687-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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In this manuscript the authors report accurate multi-state protein structures of the PDZ domain using biological NMR. By looking into protein structural states, the authors report an allosteric pathway at atomic resolution that validates previously reported low resolution findings and uncovered a structural hallmark of the allosteric ligand binding to the PDZ domain.