Preliminary study of the spatial structural and functional changes of dystrophin after exon-3 deletion / 南方医科大学学报
Journal of Southern Medical University
; (12): 938-941, 2008.
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in Zh
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the structural and functional changes of dystrophin molecule after exon 3 deletion.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Three-dimensional models of dystrophin comprising the major domains were established before and after exon 3 deletion using SWISS-MODEL server. The motifs and structural domains of dystrophin after exon 3 deletion were searched in Pfam database, and the crystal structure of the actin-binding domain in the dystrophin molecule was analyzed using Rasmol software.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Torsion of the N-terminal actin-binding domain occurred in the dystrophin molecule after deletion of exon 3. Homology analysis based on Pfam database searches indicated that following exon 3 deletion, the Bit score of the first calponin homology (CH1) domain was decreased from 108 to 36.5 while its expectation value increased from 2.3e-9 to 8.1e-8. The deletion also resulted in the absence of the spiral region C from the CH1 domain.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Exon 3 deletion in the dystrophin-coding sequence decreases the stability of CH1 domain and prevents the formation of the junction interface where dystrophin binds to actin. The bioinformatics approach provides a new alternative for investigation of the pathogenesis of DMD pathogenesy investigation.</p>
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Main subject:
Protein Binding
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Protein Conformation
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Structure-Activity Relationship
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Models, Molecular
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Chemistry
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Exons
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Dystrophin
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Sequence Deletion
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Zh
Journal:
Journal of Southern Medical University
Year:
2008
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Article