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. 2018 Mar 8;75(12):2137–2151. doi: 10.1007/s00018-018-2789-9

Table 1.

Proteins with cholesterol (PDB code: CLR) bound to their structure

PDB ID Protein/lipid/detergent used during purification/crystallization Bounda CRACb motifs CARC motifs Binding CRAC/CARCc
X-ray diffraction
 1LRI Fungal elicitor cryptogein 1 None None No
 5XRA CB1/ monoolein 1 None None No
 2RH1 β-2 adrenergic receptor/ monoolein 3 None None No
Na+/K+ ATPase/PC
2ZXE α subunit 1 5 12 No
β subunit 3 7 Yes
3WGU α subunit 6 4 14 No
β subunit 5 9 Yes
4XT1 Human chemokine CX3CL1/1-oleoyl-R-glycerol 2 3 3 No
μ-opioid receptor/monoolein
4DKL 1 None None No
5C1M 1 3 2 No
4XP9 Dopamine transporter/DDM, PE 1 4 11 No
1N83 Nuclear receptor ROR-alpha 1 1 2 Likely
5LWE Chemokine receptor type 9/DDM 1 3 6 Yes
5I6X Human serotonin transporter/PC, PE, PG 1 6 5 No
5L7D Human smoothened protein/DDM 1 None None No
3N9Y Human CYP11A1 2 7 6 No
5JQH β-2 adrenoceptor/ monoacylglycerol 2 None None No
4XNV P2Y purinoceptor 1/DDM 1 None None No
5IU4 A2A adenosine receptor 4 None None No
5X93 Endothelin B receptor/ LMNG 1 None None No
5WVR OSH1 OSBP-related domain 1 8 8 Yes
1ZHY Oxysterol binding protein Osh4 1 3 11 Yes
5TCX Human tetraspanin CD8/monoolein 1 1 5 No
3GKI N-terminal domain of Niemann-Pick C1 protein 1 None 4 No
4BOE Tick lipocalin japanin 1 4 4 Yes
4OR2 Metabotropic glutamate receptor 1/monoolein 6 None None No
4IB4 Chimera of 5-HT2B-BRIL/monoolein 1 None None No
3AM6 Proton pumping rhodopsin AR2/monoolein 8 2 3 No
4PXZ P2Y12 receptor/monoolein 1 None None No
Electron microscopy
 5SY1 STRA6 receptor/ lauryl maltose neopentyl glycol 2 3 10 No
 3JD8 Niemann-Pick C1 protein 1 6 18 No
Small angle neutron scattering
 3K2S High density lipoprotein/POPC 20 5 4 No

Included proteins have less than 90% sequence similarity (date of analysis: 29th September 2017). Cholesterol-like molecules have not been included into the search

PC 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, PE 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine, PG 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoglycerol, DDM n-dodecyl-β-d-maltopyranoside, LMNG lauryl maltose neopentyl glycol

aTotal number of cholesterol molecules bound per structure

bCRAC motifs per chain

cCholesterol motif present within 7 Å radius of one of the three defining residues of a CRAC or CARC motif