Crystal structure of MerB, the Organomercurial Lyase involved in a bacterial mercury resistance systemCrystal structure of MerB, the Organomercurial Lyase involved in a bacterial mercury resistance system

Structural highlights

3f0o is a 2 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 1.76Å
Ligands:
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

MERB_ECOLX Cleaves the carbon-mercury bond of organomercurials such as phenylmercuric acetate. One product is Hg(2+), which is subsequently detoxified by the mercuric reductase (By similarity).

Evolutionary Conservation

 

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

3f0o, resolution 1.76Å

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