T-state Active Site of Aspartate Transcarbamylase:Crystal Structure of the Carbamyl Phosphate and L-alanosine Ligated EnzymeT-state Active Site of Aspartate Transcarbamylase:Crystal Structure of the Carbamyl Phosphate and L-alanosine Ligated Enzyme

Structural highlights

2air is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2Å
Ligands:, ,
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

PYRB_ECOLI

Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

An X-ray diffraction study to 2.0 A resolution shows that this enzyme, ATCase, is in the T-state (the c3 to c3 distance is 45.2 A) when ATCase is bound to carbamyl phosphate (CP) and to L-alanosine (an analogue of aspartate). This result strongly supports the kinetic results that alanosine did not inhibit the carbamylation of aspartate in the normal reaction of native ATCase plus CP and aspartate [Baillon, J., Tauc, P., and Herve, G. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 7182-7187]. The structure further reveals that the phosphate of CP is 4 A away from its known position in the R-state and is in the T-state position of P(i) in a recent study of ATCase complexed with products, phosphate (P(i)) and N-carbamyl-L-aspartate [Huang, J., and Lipscomb, W. N. (2004) Biochemistry 43, 6422-6426]. Moreover, the alanosine position in this T-state is somewhat displaced from that expected for its analogue, aspartate, from the R-state position. The relations of these structural aspects to the kinetics are presented.

T-state active site of aspartate transcarbamylase: crystal structure of the carbamyl phosphate and L-alanosine ligated enzyme.,Huang J, Lipscomb WN Biochemistry. 2006 Jan 17;45(2):346-52. PMID:16401065[1]

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See Also

References

  1. Huang J, Lipscomb WN. T-state active site of aspartate transcarbamylase: crystal structure of the carbamyl phosphate and L-alanosine ligated enzyme. Biochemistry. 2006 Jan 17;45(2):346-52. PMID:16401065 doi:10.1021/bi051543u

2air, resolution 2.00Å

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