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SAXS/WAXS data of conformationally flexible ribose binding protein
Jagrity Choudhury1, Kento Yonezawa2, Anu Anu1,3
1GN Ramachandran Protein Center, CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh 160036, India.
Abstract:
Modern artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction methods, such as Alphafold2, can predict structures of folded proteins with reasonable accuracy. However, Alphafold2 provides a static view of a protein, which does not show the conformational variability of the protein, domain movement in a multi-domain protein, or ligand-induced conformational changes it might undergo in solution. Small-angle X-ay scattering (SAXS) and wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) are solution techniques that can aid in integrative modeling of conformationally flexible proteins, or in validating their predicted ensemble structures. While SAXS is sensitive to global structural features, WAXS can expand the scope of structural modeling by including information about local structural changes. We present SAXS and WAXS datasets obtained from conformationally flexible d-ribose binding protein (RBP) from Escherichia coli in the ribose bound and unbound forms. SAXS/WAXS datasets of RBP provided here may aid in method development efforts for more accurate prediction of structural ensembles of conformationally flexible proteins, and their conformational changes.
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