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2575: Unsolved Voltage-gated Ion Channel Cryo-EM Density Round 2

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Novice Overall Prediction Electron Density

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Created
February 19, 2025
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Max points
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Description

Here's round 2 for this exciting puzzle. While our collaborators have been able to fit a cryoEM map well enough to build an atomic model of this channel (chain A in this puzzle) they have been unable to fit the toxin variant (chain B). Try to fit both chains into this cryo-EM map, but especially residues 119-148 (chain B, where constraints have been added between 127&139, 120&134, and 133&143). See the previous blogpost for all the juicy scientific details!
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Blogpost: https://fold.it/forum/blog/new-unsolved-vgic-cryo-em-density-puzzle
Previous Round: https://fold.it/puzzles/2013979

Sequence
PYWIKFKKCIYFIVMDPFVDLAITICIVLNTLFMAMEHHPMTEEFKNVLAIGNLVFTGIFAAEMVLKLIAMDPYEYFQVGWNIFDSLIVTLSLVELFLADVEGLSVLRSFRLLRVFKL QCQKWMQTCDKDRKCCEGFRCRLWCRKELL

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Comments

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

This puzzle is open for 2 weeks to give you enough time to solve Round 2 of this Unsolved VGIC Cryo-EM Density Puzzle!

Note that there is no Refine Density tool in this puzzle, because there is no way to refine this density… the electron density cloud comes from cryo-EM, not X-ray crystallography, so we only have this one "image" of the density to work with. Good luck!

Thanks to LociOiling's post:
The puzzle has constraints on three disulfide bridges.

The bridges are:

127,139 120,134 133,143

The constraints are invisible if the bridges are in place. They only become visible if you move the sidechains apart to break the bridge.
https://fold.it/puzzles/2014026#post_79759