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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2009 Mar 31;48(12):2777–2787. doi: 10.1021/bi801293v

Table 6.

Noncovalent Interactions for Tryptophan in Several Proteins

Protein PDB # Molecular Coordinates Distance (A) Interaction
Gyrase B with chlorobiocin 1KZN W170A CZ2 - R168 ANH1 3.96 Cation- π
W170A CH2 - K129A NZ 3.96 Cation- π

apoTIM 1YPI W168 CE2 – K134 N2 3.97 Cation- π
W168 CZ2 - L174 N 5.79 Cation- π
  + PGA 7TIM W168 CE2 – K134 N2 4.26 Cation- π

Yersinia PTPase/apo;WT 1YPT W354 CE2 - R409 NH2 4.95 Cation- π
  “ + vanadate 2I421 W354 CD2 - R409NH1 5.91 Cation- π
W354 CD1 - T358 OG1 3.42 Anion-quadrapole

Pf3 virion coat 1IFP 1FPSF W38 – R37 (interstrand) NA Cation- π

Fd virion coat 1IFJ F42 - W26 NA Aromatic face-edge
Melittin 2MLT W19A CZ2 - K23A NZ 4.62 Cation- π
W19B CE2 - K23B NZ 4.39 Cation- π

Bacteriorhodopsin W182 2BRD W182 CZ2 – RET 216 het C20 4.14 Cation- π
W182 CZ2 –RET 216 het C19 5.39 Cation- π
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