Calcineurin B (CNB)

displayed: Ca2+-bound CNB (1TCO).
 
CNB is a CaM subfamily member which associates with calcineurin A to form the protein phosphatase calcineurin.  Shown here is the Ca2+-bound form of CNB.  The structure of Ca2+-free CNB has not been solved, but one may postulate that given the similar positioning of the Ca2+-bound EF-hands to those of Ca2+-CaM and Ca2+-TnC (open conformation; compare with the parameters below), the apo EF-hands of CnB may display the closed conformation.  EF1 of CNB is shortened in the diagram due to missing residues in the PDB file.

 
EF-hand (helix residues) N-terminal coordinate
of second helix
theta phi omega
1 (22-29, 39-43) - shortened (8.490, -0.445, -7.418) 84.055 101.981 N/A
2 (54-61, 71-81) (8.283, -0.579, -6.226) 67.749 96.522 100
3 (91-98, 108-118) (5.301, -1.420, -9.091) 85.032 104.909 83
4 (132-139, 149-159) (9.824, 0.860, -5.053) 80.391 85.209 122

 

NB: values obtained using apo-CaM EF1 (as in refcam.pdb) as the reference EF-hand.


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