2c2g

Crystal structure of Threonine Synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana in complex with its cofactor pyridoxal phosphateCrystal structure of Threonine Synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana in complex with its cofactor pyridoxal phosphate

Structural highlights 2c2g is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Arabidopsis thaliana. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.61Å Ligands: Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function THRC1_ARATH Catalyzes the gamma-elimination of phosphate from L-phosphohomoserine and the beta-addition of water to produce L-threonine. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed Threonine synthase (TS) is a fold-type II pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the ultimate step of threonine synthesis in plants and microorganisms. Unlike the enzyme from microorganisms, plant TS is activated by S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet). The mechanism of activation has remained unknown up to now. We report here the crystallographic structures of Arabidopsis thaliana TS in complex with PLP (aTS) and with PLP and AdoMet (aTS-AdoMet), which show with atomic detail how AdoMet activates TS. The aTS structure reveals a PLP orientation never previously observed for a type II PLP-dependent enzyme and explains the low activity of plant TS in the absence of its allosteric activator. The aTS-AdoMet structure shows that activation of the enzyme upon AdoMet binding triggers a large reorganization of active site loops in one monomer of the structural dimer and allows the displacement of PLP to its active conformation. Comparison with other TS structures shows that activation of the second monomer may be triggered by substrate binding. This structure also discloses a novel fold for two AdoMet binding sites located at the dimer interface, each site containing two AdoMet effectors bound in tandem. Moreover, aTS-AdoMet is the first structure of an enzyme that uses AdoMet as an allosteric effector. Allosteric threonine synthase. Reorganization of the pyridoxal phosphate site upon asymmetric activation through S-adenosylmethionine binding to a novel site.,Mas-Droux C, Biou V, Dumas R J Biol Chem. 2006 Feb 24;281(8):5188-96. Epub 2005 Nov 29. PMID:16319072 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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