The high-resolution solution structure of the inhibitor-freec
at
alytic fr
agment of hum
an fibrobl
astcoll
agen
ase (MMP-1),
a protein of 18.7
kD
a, which is
a member of them
atrix met
alloprotein
ase f
amily,h
as been determined using three-dimension
al heteronucle
ar NMRspectroscopy. A tot
al of 30 structureswere c
alcul
ated by me
ans of hybrid dist
ance geometry-simul
ated
anne
aling using
a tot
al of 3333experiment
al NMR restr
aints, consisting of 2409
approxim
ate interprotondist
ance restr
aints, 84 dist
ancerestr
aints for 42 b
ac
kbone hydrogen bonds, 426 torsion
anglerestr
aints, 125
3JNHages/gifchars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0>restr
aints, 153 C
ages/gifch
ars/
alph
a.gif" BORDER=0>restr
aints,
and 136 C
ages/gifch
ars/bet
a2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle"> restr
aints. The
atomic rms distribution
about the me
an coordin
ate positions forthe 30 structures for residues 7-137
and 145-163 is 0.42 ± 0.04Å for the b
ac
kbone
atoms, 0.80 ± 0.04Å for
all
atoms,
and 0.50 ± 0.03 Å for
all
atoms excludingdisordered side ch
ains. The over
all structureof MMP-1 is composed of
a ages/gifch
ars/bet
a2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle">-sheet consisting of five
ages/gifch
ars/bet
a2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle">-str
ands in
amixed p
ar
allel
and
anti-p
ar
allel
arr
angement
and three
ages/gifch
ars/
alph
a.gif" BORDER=0>-helices. A best-fit superposition of theNMR structure of inhibitor-free MMP-1with the 1.56 Å resolution X-r
ay structure by Spurlino et
al.[Spurlino, J. C., Sm
allwood, A. M., C
arlton,D. D., B
an
ks, T. M., V
avr
a, K. J.,
Johnson, J. S., Coo
k, E. R., F
alvo,J.,
and W
ahl, R. C., et
al. (1994)
Proteins: Struct., Funct., Genet. 19, 98-109] complexedwith
a hydrox
am
ate inhibitor yields
a b
ac
kbone
atomic rms difference of 1.22 Å. The m
ajority of differencesbetween the NMR
and X-r
ay structureoccur in the vicinity of the
active site for MMP-1. This includes
an incre
ase in mobility for residues138-144
and
a displ
acement for the C
a2+-loop (residue
s74-80). Distinct differences were observed forside-ch
ain torsion
angles, in p
articul
ar, the
ages/gifch
ars/chi.gif" BORDER=0 >
1 for N80is -60
ages/entities/deg.gif"> in the NMR structure comp
ared to 180
ages/entities/deg.gif">in the X-r
ay. This results in the side ch
ain of N80 occupying
andp
arti
ally bloc
king
access to the
activesite of MMP-1.