Zm. Wang et al., A LOW-ENERGY SHORT HYDROGEN-BOND IN VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION STRUCTURES OF PROTEIN-RECEPTOR PHOSPHATE COMPLEXES, Nature structural biology, 4(7), 1997, pp. 519-522
A very short hydrogen bond between an Asp and a phosphate is establish
ed in two high resolution structures (0.98 and 1.05 Angstrom). A mutan
t complex that changes the Asp to an Asn,which forms a normal hydrogen
bond, has a similar free energy of binding to the wild type complex,
suggesting that the contribution of the short hydrogen bond is not ext
raordinarily strong.