Arsenic in the structure of A Structure-Based Mechanism of Sars Virus Membrane Fusion (pdb 1zv8)

The binding sites of Arsenic atom in the structure of A Structure-Based Mechanism of Sars Virus Membrane Fusion (pdb code 1zv8). This binding sites where shown with 5.0 Angstroms radius around Arsenic atom. The 1zv8 structure was solved by Y.DENG, J.LIU, Q.ZHENG, W.YONG, J.DAI, M.LU, with X-Ray Crystallography technique, brief refinement statistics is given in the table below: Resolution (A) 70.7-1.9 Space group P1 a (A) 31.054 b (A) 55.565 c (A) 71.678 alpha (°) 81.26 beta (°) 87.08 gamma (°) 84.10 Rfactor (%) 20.3 Rfree (%) 27.4 Arsenic Binding Sites: Arsenic binding site 1 out of 1 in 1zv8 Click to enlarge Click to enlarge Mono- and Stereo- picture of 5.0 Angstrom coordination sphere 1 of Arsenic in the PDB 1zv8. Coordination sphere was calculated for all residues within 5.0 Angstroms distance from the central Arsenic atom, shown by VdW sphere Residues shown as a stick model or VDW spheres: G: Ser50, H: Asp1, G: Cac201, G: Zn204, H: Act202, H: Zn203, G: Hoh218, H: Hoh211, conact list: Atom Atom Distance (A) As O G:Ser50 4.98 As N H:Asp1 4.63 As OD2 H:Asp1 4.38 As OD1 H:Asp1 4.72 As CG H:Asp1 4.71 As O1 G:Cac201 1.82 As O2 G:Cac201 1.89 As AS G:Cac201 0.00 As C2 G:Cac201 2.05 As C1 G:Cac201 1.96 As ZN G:Zn204 3.35 As O H:Act202 4.39 As ZN H:Zn203 3.23 As O G:Hoh218 3.76 As O H:Hoh211 4.26 interactive model: