Crystal structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile MurE in complex with ADP and 2,6-Diaminopimelic acidCrystal structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile MurE in complex with ADP and 2,6-Diaminopimelic acid

Structural highlights

8g6p is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Mycolicibacterium thermoresistibile. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.45Å
Ligands:, , , ,
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

A0A100XI70_MYCTH Catalyzes the addition of meso-diaminopimelic acid to the nucleotide precursor UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamate (UMAG) in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_00208]

Publication Abstract from PubMed

The cytoplasmatic biosynthesis of the stem peptide from the peptidoglycan in bacteria involves six steps, which have the role of three ATP-dependent Mur ligases that incorporate three consecutive amino acids to a substrate precursor. MurE is the last Mur ligase to incorporate a free amino acid. Although the structure of MurE from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MtbMurE) was determined at 3.0 A, the binding mode of meso-Diaminopimelate (m-DAP) and the effect of substrate absence is unknown. Herein, we show the structure of MurE from M. thermoresistibile (MthMurE) in complex with ADP and m-DAP at 1.4 A resolution. The analysis of the structure indicates key conformational changes that the substrate UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu (UAG) and the free amino acid m-DAP cause on the MthMurE conformation. We observed several movements of domains or loop regions that displace their position in order to perform enzymatic catalysis. Since MthMurE has a high similarity to MtbMurE, this enzyme could also guide strategies for structure-based antimicrobial discovery to fight against tuberculosis or other mycobacterial infections.

The crystal structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile MurE ligase reveals the binding mode of the substrate m-diaminopimelate.,Rossini NO, Silva C, Dias MVB J Struct Biol. 2023 Mar 20;215(2):107957. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2023.107957. PMID:36944394[1]

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References

  1. Rossini NO, Silva C, Dias MVB. The crystal structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile MurE ligase reveals the binding mode of the substrate m-diaminopimelate. J Struct Biol. 2023 Mar 20;215(2):107957. PMID:36944394 doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2023.107957

8g6p, resolution 1.45Å

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