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load "1HBS.PDB"
wireframe off
select :a or :e
color blue
select :b or :f
color [0,180,180] #dull cyan
select :c or :g
color [0,180,0] #dull green
select :d or :h
color [180, 180, 0] #dull yellow/brown
# SHOW VALINES ON BETAS
select :e or :f or :g or :h
spacefill
select 6:b or 6:d or 6:f or 6:h
define sval selected
color cpk
script clrleg.scr
echo SICKLE HEMOGLOBIN DIFFERS FROM NORMAL HEMOGLOBIN A BY
echo A SINGLE AMINO ACID: VALINE REPLACES GLUTAMATE AT POSITION
echo 6 ON THE SURFACE OF THE BETA CHAIN. THIS CREATES A NEW
echo HYDROPHOBIC SPOT (SHOWN AS GRAY FOR CARBON).
pause
# SHOW PATCH ON BETAS
select 70:b or 88:b or 70:d or 88:d or 70:f or 88:f or 70:h or 88:h
define patch selected
color cpk
echo
echo WHEN DEOXYGENATED, NORMAL HEMOGLOBIN HAS A SMALL
echo HYDROPHOBIC PATCH ON THE SURFACE.
echo
pause
# SHOW AGGREGATION
select :a or :b or :c or :d
spacefill
echo THE HYDROPHOBIC SPOTS STICK TO EACH OTHER (EXCLUDING WATER)
echo CAUSING DEOXYGENATED HEMOGLOBIN TO AGGREGATE INTO CHAINS.
pause
# SHOW BINDING AA'S
select hem
spacefill off
#select protein and not (70:b or 88:b or 6:h)
select protein and not (sval or patch)
spacefill off
backbone 0.5
echo
echo IN THE HEMOGLOBIN CRYSTAL FROM WHICH THIS STRUCTURE WAS OBTAINED,
echo VALINE 6 (BETA) BOUND TO ALANINE 70 AND LEUCINE 88 (BETA).
pause
zoom 300
pause
zoom 100
script clrleg.scr
echo IN A SICKLED RED BLOOD CELL, THE VALINE 6 (BETA) BINDS TO A
echo DIFFERENT HYDROPHOBIC PATCH (ON THE ALPHA CHAIN, NOT SHOWN).
pause
echo
echo THE POLYMERIZED HEMOGLOBIN DISTORTS RED BLOOD CELLS INTO AN
echo ABNORMAL SICKLE-SHAPE. HETEROZYGOTES HAVE A MIXTURE OF NORMAL
echo HEMOGLOBIN A AND MUTANT HEMOGLOBIN S. THE HEMOGLOBIN A STOPS
echo POLYMERIZATION, PREVENTING SERIOUS SICKLING. RED CELLS IN
echo HOMOZYGOTES FOR SICKLE HEMOGLOBIN LYSE, PRODUCING THE
echo DISEASE 'SICKLE CELL ANEMIA'.
pause
echo
echo SICKLE HEMOGLOBIN, EVEN IN HETEROZYGOTES, CONFERS RESISTANCE
echo TO ONE TYPE OF MALARIA. THROUGH EVOLUTION, THIS ADVANTAGE
echo HAS LED TO A 40% INCIDENCE OF SICKLE HEMOGLOBIN IN SOME REGIONS
echo OF AFRICA WHERE MALARIA IS ENDEMIC.
pause
echo
echo REFERENCES:
echo V. W. RODWELL, 'PROTEINS: MYOGLOBIN AND HEMOGLOBIN', IN HARPER'S
echo BIOCHEMISTRY, 22ND EDITION, EDITED BY R. K. MURRAY ET AL., LANGE
echo PUBLISHING CO., 1990.
echo MALARIA (PP. 758-61) IN 'MICROBIOLOGY' BY PRESCOTT, HARLEY & KLEIN.