Paper Citing NAMD - Abstract
Croll, Tristan I.; Smith, Brian J.; Margetts, Mai B.; Whittaker, Jonathan; Weiss, Michael A.; Ward, Colin W.; Lawrence, Michael C.
Higher-Resolution Structure of the Human Insulin Receptor Ectodomain: Multi-Modal Inclusion of the Insert Domain
STRUCTURE, 24:469-476, MAR 1 2016
Insulin receptor (IR) signaling is critical to controlling nutrient uptake and metabolism. However, only a low-resolution (3.8 angstrom) structure currently exists for the IR ectodomain, with some segments ill-defined or unmodeled due to disorder. Here, we revise this structure using new diffraction data to 3.3 angstrom resolution that allow improved modeling of the N-linked glycans, the first and third fibronectin type III domains, and the insert domain. A novel haptic interactive molecular dynamics strategy was used to aid fitting to low-resolution electron density maps. The resulting model provides a foundation for investigation of structural transitions in IR upon ligand binding.
