2hmf
From Proteopedia
Structure of a Threonine Sensitive Aspartokinase from Methanococcus jannaschii Complexed with Mg-ADP and Aspartate
Overview
The activation of the beta-carboxyl group of aspartate catalyzed by aspartokinase is the commitment step to amino-acid biosynthesis in the aspartate pathway. The first structure of a microbial aspartokinase, that from Methanococcus jannaschii, has been determined in the presence of the amino-acid substrate L-aspartic acid and the nucleotide product MgADP. The enzyme assembles into a dimer of dimers, with the interfaces mediated by both the N- and C-terminal domains. The active-site functional groups responsible for substrate binding and specificity have been identified and roles have been proposed for putative catalytic functional groups.
About this Structure
2HMF is a Single protein structure of sequence from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
The initial step in the archaeal aspartate biosynthetic pathway catalyzed by a monofunctional aspartokinase., Faehnle CR, Liu X, Pavlovsky A, Viola RE, Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2006 Oct 1;62(Pt, 10):962-6. Epub 2006 Sep 30. PMID:17012784 Page seeded by OCA on Sun May 4 06:27:30 2008
