4ix6

Crystal structure of a Stt7 homolog from Micromonas algae soaked with ATPCrystal structure of a Stt7 homolog from Micromonas algae soaked with ATP

Structural highlights 4ix6 is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Micromonas commoda. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: , Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function C1EBN1_MICCC Publication Abstract from PubMed Under natural environments, plants and algae have evolved various photosynthetic acclimation mechanisms in response to the constantly changing light conditions. The state transition and long-term response processes in photosynthetic acclimation involve remodeling and composition alteration of thylakoid membrane. A chloroplast protein kinase named Stt7/STN7 has been found to have pivotal roles in both state transition and long-term response. Here we report the crystal structures of the kinase domain of a putative Stt7/STN7 homolog from Micromonas sp. RCC299 (MsStt7d) in the apo form and in complex with various nucleotide substrates. MsStt7d adopts a canonical protein kinase fold and contains all the essential residues at the active site. A novel hairpin motif, found to be a conserved feature of the Stt7/STN7 family and indispensable for the kinase stability, interacts with the activation loop and fixes it in an active conformation. We have also demonstrated that MsStt7d is a dualspecifi city kinase that phosphorylates both Thr and Tyr residues. Moreover, preliminary in vitro data suggest that it might be capable of phosphorylating a consensus N-terminal pentapeptide of light-harvesting proteins Micromonas Lhcp4 and Arabidopsis Lhcb1 directly. The potential peptide/protein substrate binding site is predicted based on the location of a pseudo-substrate contributed by the adjacent molecule within the crystallographic dimer. The structural and biochemical data presented here provide a framework for an improved understanding on the role of Stt7/STN7 in photosynthetic acclimation. Structure of the catalytic domain of a state transition kinase homolog from Micromonas algae.,Guo J, Wei X, Li M, Pan X, Chang W, Liu Z Protein Cell. 2013 Aug;4(8):607-19. doi: 10.1007/s13238-013-3034-9. Epub 2013 Jun, 23. PMID:23794031 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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