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==Structure of a lipoate-protein ligase b from Mycobacterium tuberculosis==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[1w66]] is a 1 chain structure with sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myctu Myctu]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1W66 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1W66 FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><scene name='pdbligand=DKA:DECANOIC+ACID'>DKA</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1w66 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=1w66 OCA], [http://pdbe.org/1w66 PDBe], [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=1w66 RCSB], [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/1w66 PDBsum], [http://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=1w66 ProSAT], [http://www.topsan.org/Proteins/XMTB/1w66 TOPSAN]</span></td></tr>
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== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Lipoic acid is essential for the activation of a number of protein complexes involved in key metabolic processes. Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis relies on a pathway in which the lipoate attachment group is synthesized from an endogenously produced octanoic acid moiety. In patients with multiple-drug-resistant M. tuberculosis, expression of one gene from this pathway, lipB, encoding for octanoyl-[acyl carrier protein]-protein acyltransferase is considerably up-regulated, thus making it a potential target in the search for novel antiinfectives against tuberculosis. Here we present the crystal structure of the M. tuberculosis LipB protein at atomic resolution, showing an unexpected thioether-linked active-site complex with decanoic acid. We provide evidence that the transferase functions as a cysteine/lysine dyad acyltransferase, in which two invariant residues (Lys-142 and Cys-176) are likely to function as acid/base catalysts. Analysis by MS reveals that the LipB catalytic reaction proceeds by means of an internal thioesteracyl intermediate. Structural comparison of LipB with lipoate protein ligase A indicates that, despite conserved structural and sequence active-site features in the two enzymes, 4'-phosphopantetheine-bound octanoic acid recognition is a specific property of LipB.

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis LipB enzyme functions as a cysteine/lysine dyad acyltransferase.,Ma Q, Zhao X, Nasser Eddine A, Geerlof A, Li X, Cronan JE, Kaufmann SH, Wilmanns M Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jun 6;103(23):8662-7. Epub 2006 May 30. PMID:16735476<ref>PMID:16735476</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Myctu]]
[[Category: Ma, Q]]
[[Category: Wilmanns, M]]
[[Category: Acyltransferase]]
[[Category: Lipoate-protein ligase b]]
[[Category: Lipoic acid]]
[[Category: Lipoyltransferase]]
[[Category: Mycobacterium tuberculosis structural proteomics project]]
[[Category: Structural genomic]]
[[Category: Transferase]]
[[Category: Xmtb]]