PLASTIC ADAPTATION TOWARD MUTATIONS IN PROTEINS: STRUCTURAL COMPARISON OF THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASESPLASTIC ADAPTATION TOWARD MUTATIONS IN PROTEINS: STRUCTURAL COMPARISON OF THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASES

Structural highlights

4tms is a 1 chain structure with sequence from "bacillus_a"_von_freudenreich_1890 "bacillus a" von freudenreich 1890. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Ligands:
Activity:Thymidylate synthase, with EC number 2.1.1.45
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum

Function

[TYSY_LACCA] Provides the sole de novo source of dTMP for DNA biosynthesis.

Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The structure of thymidylate synthase (TS) from Escherichia coli was solved from cubic crystals with a = 133 A grown under reducing conditions at pH 7.0, and refined to R = 22% at 2.1 A resolution. The structure is compared with that from Lactobacillus casei solved to R = 21% at 2.3 A resolution. The structures are compared using a difference distance matrix, which identifies a common core of residues that retains the same relationship to one another in both species. After subtraction of the effects of a 50 amino acid insert present in Lactobacillus casei, differences in position of atoms correlate with temperature factors and with distance from the nearest substituted residue. The dependence of structural difference on thermal factor is parameterized and reflects both errors in coordinates that correlate with thermal factor, and the increased width of the energy well in which atoms of high thermal factor lie. The dependence of structural difference on distance from the nearest substitution also depends on thermal factors and shows an exponential dependence with half maximal effect at 3.0 A from the substitution. This represents the plastic accommodation of the protein which is parameterized in terms of thermal B factor and distance from a mutational change.

Plastic adaptation toward mutations in proteins: structural comparison of thymidylate synthases.,Perry KM, Fauman EB, Finer-Moore JS, Montfort WR, Maley GF, Maley F, Stroud RM Proteins. 1990;8(4):315-33. PMID:2128651[1]

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See Also

References

  1. Perry KM, Fauman EB, Finer-Moore JS, Montfort WR, Maley GF, Maley F, Stroud RM. Plastic adaptation toward mutations in proteins: structural comparison of thymidylate synthases. Proteins. 1990;8(4):315-33. PMID:2128651 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.340080406

4tms, resolution 2.35Å

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