5kyt

Structure of Photinus pyralis Luciferase red light emitting variantStructure of Photinus pyralis Luciferase red light emitting variant

Structural highlights 5kyt is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Photinus pyralis. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.001Å Ligands: , Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function LUCI_PHOPY Produces green light with a wavelength of 562 nm. Publication Abstract from PubMed Unlike the enchanting yellow-green flashes of light produced on warm summer evenings by Photinus pyralis, the most common firefly species in North America, the orange lights of Photinus scintillans are infrequently observed. These Photinus species, and likely all bioluminescent beetles, use the same substrates beetle luciferin, ATP, and oxygen to produce light. It is the structure of the particular luciferase enzyme that is the key to determining the color of the emitted light. We report here the molecular cloning of the P. scintillans luc gene and the expression and characterization of the corresponding novel recombinant luciferase enzyme. A comparison of the amino acid sequence with that of the highly similar P. pyralis enzyme and subsequent mutagenesis studies revealed that the single conservative amino acid change tyrosine to phenylalanine at position 255 accounted for the entire emission color difference. Additional mutagenesis and crystallographic studies were performed on a H-bond network, which includes the position 255 residue and 5 other stringently conserved beetle luciferase residues, that is proximal to the substrate/emitter binding site. The results are interpreted in the context of a speculative proposal that this network is key to the understanding of bioluminescence color determination. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Cloning of the Orange Light-Producing Luciferase from Photinus scintillans - A New Proposal on how Bioluminescence Color is Determined.,Branchini BR, Southworth TL, Fontaine DM, Murtiashaw MH, McGurk A, Talukder MH, Qureshi R, Yetil D, Sundlov JA, Gulick AM Photochem Photobiol. 2016 Nov 18. doi: 10.1111/php.12671. PMID:27861940 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Luciferase 3D structures

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