Crystal structure of an uncleaved α1‐antitrypsin reveals the conformation of its inhibitory reactive loop

Abstract
The crystal structure of a recombinant human α1-antitrypsin, in the uncleaved and uncomplexed state, has been determined by X-ray crystallographic methods and refined to an R-factor of 18.4% for 8.0–3.46 Å data with good stereochemistry. This structure provides the first view at the inhibitory loop and the central β-sheet A of the uncleaved α1-antitrypsin. The reactive loop takes a distorted helical conformation and no pre-insertion of two residues in the reactive loop into the β-sheet A is observed. The present structure is largely in agreement with the model predicted by Engh, Wright, and Huber [Prot. Eng. 3 (1990) 469–477]

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