1lba
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'''THE STRUCTURE OF BACTERIOPHAGE T7 LYSOZYME, A ZINC AMIDASE AND AN INHIBITOR OF T7 RNA POLYMERASE''' | '''THE STRUCTURE OF BACTERIOPHAGE T7 LYSOZYME, A ZINC AMIDASE AND AN INHIBITOR OF T7 RNA POLYMERASE''' | ||
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THE STRUCTURE OF BACTERIOPHAGE T7 LYSOZYME, A ZINC AMIDASE AND AN INHIBITOR OF T7 RNA POLYMERASE
Overview
The lysozyme of bacteriophage T7 is a bifunctional protein that cuts amide bonds in the bacterial cell wall and binds to and inhibits transcription by T7 RNA polymerase. The structure of a mutant T7 lysozyme has been determined by x-ray crystallography and refined at 2.2-A resolution. The protein folds into an alpha/beta-sheet structure that has a prominent cleft. A zinc atom is located in the cleft, bound directly to three amino acids and, through a water molecule, to a fourth. Zinc is required for amidase activity but not for inhibition of T7 RNA polymerase. Alignment of the zinc ligands of T7 lysozyme with those of carboxypeptidase A and thermolysin suggests structural similarity among the catalytic sites for the amidase and these zinc proteases. Mutational analysis identified presumed catalytic residues for amidase activity within the cleft and a surface that appears to be the site of binding to T7 RNA polymerase. Binding of T7 RNA polymerase inhibits amidase activity.
About this Structure
1LBA is a Single protein structure of sequence from Enterobacteria phage t7. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
The structure of bacteriophage T7 lysozyme, a zinc amidase and an inhibitor of T7 RNA polymerase., Cheng X, Zhang X, Pflugrath JW, Studier FW, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994 Apr 26;91(9):4034-8. PMID:8171031 Page seeded by OCA on Fri May 2 23:45:07 2008
