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Crystal structures of the bacterial ribosomal decoding site complexed with amikacin.
Overview
Amikacin is the 4,6-linked aminoglycoside modified at position N1 of the 2-deoxystreptamine ring (ring II) by the L-haba group. In the present study, the crystal structure of a complex between oligonucleotide containing the bacterial ribosomal A site and amikacin has been solved at 2.7 A resolution. Amikacin specifically binds to the A site in practically the same way as its parent compound kanamycin. In addition, the L-haba group interacts with the upper side of the A site through two direct contacts, O2*...H-N4(C1496) and N4*-H...O6(G1497). The present crystal structure shows how the introduction of the L-haba group on ring II of aminoglycoside is an effective mutation for obtaining a higher affinity to the bacterial A site.
About this Structure
Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Crystal structure of the bacterial ribosomal decoding site complexed with amikacin containing the gamma-amino-alpha-hydroxybutyryl (haba) group., Kondo J, Francois B, Russell RJ, Murray JB, Westhof E, Biochimie. 2006 Aug;88(8):1027-31. Epub 2006 Jun 13. PMID:16806634 Page seeded by OCA on Sun May 4 04:43:06 2008
