Cadmium in PDB 3a02: Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain

The structure of Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain, PDB code: 3a02 was solved by K.Miyazono, K.Nagata, K.Saigo, T.Kojima, M.Tanokura, with X-Ray Crystallography technique. A brief refinement statistics is given in the table below:

Resolution Low / High (Å)	13.23 / 1.00
Space group	P 32 2 1
Cell size a, b, c (Å), α, β, γ (°)	45.810, 45.810, 48.980, 90.00, 90.00, 120.00
R / Rfree (%)	17.2 / 18.4

The structure of Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain also contains other interesting chemical elements:

Chlorine

(Cl)

1 atom

The binding sites of Cadmium atom in the Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain (pdb code 3a02). This binding sites where shown within 5.0 Angstroms radius around Cadmium atom.
In total only one binding site of Cadmium was determined in the Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain, PDB code: 3a02:

Cadmium binding site 1 out of 1 in the Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain


Mono view


Stereo pair view

A full contact list of Cadmium with other atoms in the Cd binding site number 1 of Crystal Structure of Aristaless Homeodomain within 5.0Å range: probe atom residue distance (Å) B Occ A:Cd1 b:5.4 occ:1.00 OE1 A:GLU126 2.3 5.7 1.0 OE1 A:GLN130 2.3 6.3 1.0 CL A:CL147 2.5 6.4 1.0 OE2 A:GLU126 2.5 6.3 1.0 CD A:GLU126 2.8 5.7 1.0 CD A:GLN130 3.3 5.4 1.0 NE2 A:GLN130 3.8 7.6 1.0 CG A:GLU126 4.3 6.0 1.0 NH2 A:ARG115 4.3 7.5 1.0 O A:HOH39 4.4 8.6 1.0 CB A:GLN130 4.4 5.1 1.0 CG A:GLN130 4.5 5.3 1.0 O A:HOH3 4.5 2.5 0.5 CA A:ALA127 4.5 5.7 1.0 O A:GLU126 4.7 5.5 1.0 N A:ALA127 4.8 5.3 1.0 C A:GLU126 4.8 5.3 1.0 NE A:ARG115 4.9 6.1 1.0 CB A:ALA127 5.0 6.5 1.0

K.Miyazono, Y.Zhi, Y.Takamura, K.Nagata, K.Saigo, T.Kojima, M.Tanokura. Cooperative Dna-Binding and Sequence-Recognition Mechanism of Aristaless and Clawless Embo J. V. 29 1613 2010.
ISSN: ISSN 0261-4189
PubMed: 20389279
DOI: 10.1038/EMBOJ.2010.53