Application | Comment | Organism |
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drug development | because of the potential for use of the toxin in bioterrorism and the increasingly widespread application of the toxin in the medical field, there is interest in the development of small-molecule inhibitors of the metalloprotease | Clostridium botulinum |
Crystallization (Comment) | Organism |
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complex between the botulinum neurotoxin A light chain and the inhibitory peptide N-Ac-CRATKML, X-ray diffraction structure determination and analysis at 1.4 A resolution, and in a second approach unliganded enzyme light chain with and without the Zn2+ cofactor bound, X-ray diffraction structure determination and anaylsis at 1.25 A and 1.20 A resolution, respectively, 6-8 mg/ml purified BoNT/ALC, residues 1-425, in 50 mM NaPO4, pH 6.0, and 2 mM EDTA, hanging drop vapor diffusion method, mixing of protein solution with reservoir solution containing 20% PEG 3,350, 0.2 M diammonium tartrate, pH 6.6, and equilibration against 0.5 ml reservoir solution, the crystals are soaked prior to cryo-cooling in the crystallization solution plus 10 mM Zn(NO3)2 for 4.5 h or 5 mM Zn(NO3)2 and 2 mM N-Ac-CRATKML for 23 h, respectively, modeling | Clostridium botulinum |
Inhibitors | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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N-Ac-CRATKML | an inhibitory peptide, structure of the serotype A toxin light chain with an inhibitory peptide bound at the catalytic Zn(II) ion, the peptide is bound with the Cys Sgamma atom coordinating the metal ion, overview | Clostridium botulinum |
Localization | Comment | Organism | GeneOntology No. | Textmining |
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Metals/Ions | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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Zn2+ | BoNT/A-LC is a Zn(II)-dependent metalloprotease, the Zn2+ ion plays a purely catalytic role | Clostridium botulinum |
Molecular Weight [Da] | Molecular Weight Maximum [Da] | Comment | Organism |
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50000 | - |
1 * 50000, light chain, + 1 * 100000, heavy chain, linked by a disulfide bond | Clostridium botulinum |
100000 | - |
1 * 50000, light chain, + 1 * 100000, heavy chain, linked by a disulfide bond | Clostridium botulinum |
150000 | - |
holotoxin | Clostridium botulinum |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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SNAP-25 + H2O | Clostridium botulinum | BoNT/A-LC is a Zn(II)-dependent metalloprotease that blocks the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction by cleaving SNAP-25, one of the SNARE proteins required for exocytosis | ? | - |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Clostridium botulinum | P10845 | - |
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Posttranslational Modification | Comment | Organism |
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proteolytic modification | BoNTs are produced as a single 150 kDa polypeptide chain that is subsequently cleaved by endogenous proteases to give the dichain holotoxin | Clostridium botulinum |
Reaction | Comment | Organism | Reaction ID |
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Limited hydrolysis of proteins of the neuroexocytosis apparatus, synaptobrevin (also known as neuronal vesicle-associated membrane protein, VAMP), synaptosome-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP25) or syntaxin. No detected action on small molecule substrates | reaction mechanism | Clostridium botulinum |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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SNAP-25 + H2O | BoNT/A-LC is a Zn(II)-dependent metalloprotease that blocks the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction by cleaving SNAP-25, one of the SNARE proteins required for exocytosis | Clostridium botulinum | ? | - |
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SNAP-25 + H2O | i.e. synaptosomal associated protein of 25 kDa | Clostridium botulinum | ? | - |
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Subunits | Comment | Organism |
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dimer | 1 * 50000, light chain, + 1 * 100000, heavy chain, linked by a disulfide bond | Clostridium botulinum |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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BoNT/A-LC | - |
Clostridium botulinum |
botulinum neurotoxin A light chain | - |
Clostridium botulinum |