2BEG Protein Fibril date Oct 24, 2005
title 3d Structure Of Alzheimer'S Abeta(1-42) Fibrils
authors T.Luhrs, C.Ritter, M.Adrian, D.Riek-Loher, B.Bohrmann, H.Dobeli, D.Schubert, R.Riek
compound source
Molecule: Amyloid Beta A4 Protein
Chain: A, B, C, D, E
Fragment: Beta-Amyloid Protein 42
Synonym: App, Abpp, Alzheimer'S Disease Amyloid Protein, Cerebral Vascular Amyloid Peptide, Cvap, Protease Nexin-II, Pn-II, Appi;
Engineered: Yes
 Organism_scientific: Homo Sapiens
Organism_common: Human
Organism_taxid: 9606
Gene: App
Expression_system: Escherichia Coli Bl21(De3)
Expression_system_taxid: 469008
Expression_system_strain: Bl21(De3)
Expression_system_vector_type: Plasmid
Expression_system_plasmid: Prset
methodSolution NMR
note 2BEG (Molecule of the Month:pdb79)
Primary reference3D structure of Alzheimer's amyloid-beta(1-42) fibrils., Luhrs T, Ritter C, Adrian M, Riek-Loher D, Bohrmann B, Dobeli H, Schubert D, Riek R, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 Nov 29;102(48):17342-7. Epub 2005 Nov 17. PMID:16293696
Data retrieval
  • Asymmetric unit, PDB entry: [header only] [complete with coordinates] (311 Kb) [Save to disk]
  • CSU: Contacts of Structural Units for 2BEG
  • Original NMR restraints for 2BEG from PDB
  • Experimental data, such as chemical shifts, at BioMagResBank (BMRB)
  • NMR Restraints Grid from BioMagResBank (BMRB)
  • Retrieve 2BEG in mmCIF format [Save to disk]
  • SEQRES to COORDINATES correlation for 2BEG from S2C, [Save to disk]
    • View 2BEG in 3D
  • Proteopedia, because life has more than 2D.
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    • Visual 3D analysis of 2BEG
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  • Ramachandran plot from PDBSum
    • Structure-derived information
  • Dipole moment, from Dipole Server at Weizmann Institute
  • Crystal Contacts, from CryCo at Weizmann Institute
  • 3D motif for 2BEG, from MSDmotif at EBI
  • Fold representative 2beg from FSSP and Dali (Families of Structurally Similar Proteins)
    • Sequence-derived information
  • View one-letter amino acid or nucleotide sequence for each chain: [2beg_A] [2beg_B] [2beg_C] [2beg_D] [2beg_E]
  • SWISS-PROT database: [P05067]
  • Belongs to the amyloid -protein peptide (app) family according to TCDB.
  • Domain organization of [A4_HUMAN] by SWISSPFAM
  • Alignments of the sequence of 2BEG with the sequences similar proteins can be viewed for 2BEG's classification [A4_HUMAN] at ProtoMap. Click on "Neighbors List", then on the "See Alignments" button below the list.
  • A sequence distance tree ("phylogenetic tree") can be viewed for 1ACL's classification [A4_HUMAN] at ProtoMap. Click on the Cluster number.
    • Other resources with information on 2BEG
  • Community annotation for 2BEG at PDBWiki (http://pdbwiki.org)
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