Structural highlights
4hut is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar typhimurium str. lt2. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
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| Ligands: | , , , |
| Related: | 1g64, 1g5t, 1g5r |
| Gene: | btuR, cobA, STM1718 (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium str. LT2) |
| Activity: | Cob(I)yrinic acid a,c-diamide adenosyltransferase, with EC number 2.5.1.17 |
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum |
Function
[BTUR_SALTY] Required for both de novo synthesis of the corrin ring for the assimilation of exogenous corrinoids. Participates in the adenosylation of a variety of incomplete and complete corrinoids.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
ATP:co(I)rrinoid adenosyltransferases (ACATs) are enzymes that catalyze the formation of adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl, coenzyme B(12)) from cobalamin and ATP. There are three families of ACATs, namely, CobA, EutT, and PduO. In Salmonella enterica, CobA is the housekeeping enzyme that is required for de novo AdoCbl synthesis and for salvaging incomplete precursors and cobalamin from the environment. Here, we report the crystal structure of CobA in complex with ATP, four-coordinate cobalamin, and five-coordinate cobalamin. This provides the first crystallographic evidence of the existence of cob(II)alamin in the active site of CobA. The structure suggests a mechanism in which the enzyme adopts a closed conformation and two residues, Phe91 and Trp93, displace 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole, the lower nucleotide ligand base of cobalamin, to generate a transient four-coordinate cobalamin, which is critical in the formation of the AdoCbl Co-C bond. In vivo and in vitro mutational analyses of Phe91 and Trp93 emphasize the important role of bulky hydrophobic side chains in the active site. The proposed manner in which CobA increases the redox potential of the cob(II)alamin/cob(I)alamin couple to facilitate formation of the Co-C bond appears to be analogous to that utilized by the PduO-type ACATs, where in both cases the polar coordination of the lower ligand to the cobalt ion is eliminated by placing that face of the corrin ring adjacent to a cluster of bulky hydrophobic side chains.
Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Four-Coordinate Cob(II)alamin Formation in the Active Site of the Salmonella enterica ATP:Co(I)rrinoid Adenosyltransferase Enzyme: Critical Role of Residues Phe91 and Trp93.,Moore TC, Newmister SA, Rayment I, Escalante-Semerena JC Biochemistry. 2012 Nov 21. PMID:23148601[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Moore TC, Newmister SA, Rayment I, Escalante-Semerena JC. Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Four-Coordinate Cob(II)alamin Formation in the Active Site of the Salmonella enterica ATP:Co(I)rrinoid Adenosyltransferase Enzyme: Critical Role of Residues Phe91 and Trp93. Biochemistry. 2012 Nov 21. PMID:23148601 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi301378d
