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Publication Abstract from PubMed

d-Alanine-d-alanine ligase (DDL) catalyzes the biosynthesis of d-alanyl-d-alanine, an essential bacterial peptidoglycan precursor, and is an important drug target for the development of antibacterials. We determined four different crystal structures of DDL from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) causing Bacteria Blight (BB), which include apo, ADP-bound, ATP-bound, and AMPPNP-bound structures at the resolution between 2.3 and 2.0 A. Similarly with other DDLs, the active site of XoDDL is formed by three loops from three domains at the center of enzyme. Compared with d-alanyl-d-alanine and ATP-bound TtDDL structure, the gamma-phosphate of ATP in XoDDL structure was shifted outside toward solution. We swapped the omega-loop (loop3) of XoDDL with those of Escherichia coli and Helicobacter pylori DDLs, and measured the enzymatic kinetics of wild-type XoDDL and two mutant XoDDLs with the swapped omega-loops. Results showed that the direct interactions between omega-loop and other two loops are essential for the active ATP conformation for D-ala-phosphate formation.

Crystal structures of d-alanine-d-alanine ligase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae alone and in complex with nucleotides.,Doan TT, Kim JK, Ngo HP, Tran HT, Cha SS, Min Chung K, Huynh KH, Ahn YJ, Kang LW Arch Biochem Biophys. 2014 Jan 16;545C:92-99. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2014.01.009. PMID:24440607^[1]

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