Crystal Structure Analysis of the S-adenosyl-L-methionine dependent uroporphyrinogen-III C-methyltransferase SUMTCrystal Structure Analysis of the S-adenosyl-L-methionine dependent uroporphyrinogen-III C-methyltransferase SUMT

Structural highlights

1s4d is a 12 chain structure with sequence from Pseudomonas denitrificans. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Ligands:,
Gene:COBA (Pseudomonas denitrificans)
Activity:Uroporphyrinogen-III C-methyltransferase, with EC number 2.1.1.107
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum

Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The crystallographic structure of the Pseudomonas denitrificans S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase (SUMT), which is encoded by the cobA gene, has been solved by molecular replacement to 2.7A resolution. SUMT is a branchpoint enzyme that plays a key role in the biosynthesis of modified tetrapyrroles by controlling flux to compounds such as vitamin B(12) and sirohaem, and catalysing the transformation of uroporphyrinogen III into precorrin-2. The overall topology of the enzyme is similar to that of the SUMT module of sirohaem synthase (CysG) and the cobalt-precorrin-4 methyltransferase CbiF and, as with the latter structures, SUMT has the product S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine bound in the crystal. The roles of a number of residues within the SUMT structure are discussed with respect to their conservation either across the broader family of cobalamin biosynthetic methyltransferases or within the sub-group of SUMT members. The D47N, L49A, F106A, T130A, Y183A and M184A variants of SUMT were generated by mutagenesis of the cobA gene, and tested for SAM binding and enzymatic activity. Of these variants, only D47N and L49A bound the co-substrate S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Consequently, all the mutants were severely restricted in their capacity to synthesise precorrin-2, although both the D47N and L49A variants produced significant quantities of precorrin-1, the monomethylated derivative of uroporphyrinogen III. The activity of these variants is interpreted with respect to the structure of the enzyme.

Structure/function studies on a S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent uroporphyrinogen III C methyltransferase (SUMT), a key regulatory enzyme of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis.,Vevodova J, Graham RM, Raux E, Schubert HL, Roper DI, Brindley AA, Ian Scott A, Roessner CA, Stamford NP, Elizabeth Stroupe M, Getzoff ED, Warren MJ, Wilson KS J Mol Biol. 2004 Nov 19;344(2):419-33. PMID:15522295[1]

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References

  1. Vevodova J, Graham RM, Raux E, Schubert HL, Roper DI, Brindley AA, Ian Scott A, Roessner CA, Stamford NP, Elizabeth Stroupe M, Getzoff ED, Warren MJ, Wilson KS. Structure/function studies on a S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent uroporphyrinogen III C methyltransferase (SUMT), a key regulatory enzyme of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. J Mol Biol. 2004 Nov 19;344(2):419-33. PMID:15522295 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.020

1s4d, resolution 2.70Å

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