Structures of soluble rabbit neprilysin complexed with phosphoramidon or thiorphan.
Labiuk, S.L., Sygusch, J., Grochulski, P.(2019) Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun 75: 405-411
- PubMed: 31204686 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X19006046
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4XBH, 4ZR5, 5V48 - PubMed Abstract: 
Neutral endopeptidase (neprilysin; NEP) is a proteinase that cleaves a wide variety of peptides and has been implicated in Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular conditions, arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. The structure of the soluble extracellular domain (residues 55-750) of rabbit neprilysin was solved both in its native form at 2.1 Å resolution, and bound to the inhibitors phosphoramidon and thiorphan at 2.8 and 3.0 Å resolution, respectively. Consistent with the extracellular domain of human neprilysin, the structure reveals a large central cavity which contains the active site and the location for inhibitor binding.
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