21LS

Crystal structure of Horse spleen L-ferritin mutant (L24G/S27G/E56A/R59G/E60A/E63A)

Summary for 21LS

Entry DOI	10.2210/pdb21ls/pdb
Descriptor	Ferritin light chain, SULFATE ION, CHLORIDE ION, ... (6 entities in total)
Functional Keywords	24mer cage, alanine mutant, glycine mutant, metal binding protein
Biological source	Equus caballus (horse)
Total number of polymer chains	1
Total formula weight	20700.98
Authors	Suzuki, T.,Hishikawa, Y.,Maity, B.,Abe, S.,Ueno, T. (deposition date: 2025-12-17, release date: 2026-06-24)
Primary citation	Suzuki, T.,Hishikawa, Y.,Maity, B.,Nishiyama, Y.,Motai, K.,Hayamizu, Y.,Abe, S.,Ueno, T. Design of a flexible aromatic gate to immobilize C 60 in a ferritin cage. Chem.Commun.(Camb.), 2026 Cited by PubMed Abstract: We report a crystal structure of a ferritin cage immobilizing pristine fullerene (C). Mutational studies and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reveal that a flexible aromatic gate system is effective for C immobilization. PubMed: 42210797 DOI: 10.1039/d6cc02237e PDB entries with the same primary citation
Experimental method	X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.57 Å)

Structure validation