Structural highlights
Disease
[TPMT_HUMAN] Defects in TPMT are the cause of thiopurine S-methyltransferase deficiency (TPMT deficiency) [MIM:610460]. TPMT is an enzyme involved in the normal metabolic inactivation of thiopurine drugs. These drugs are generally used as immunosupressants or cytotoxic drugs and are prescribed for a variety of clinical conditions including leukemia, autoimmune disease and organ transplantation. Patients with intermediate or no TPMT activity are at risk of toxicity after receiving standard doses of thiopurine drugs and it is shown that inter-individual differences in response to these drugs are largely determined by genetic variation at the TPMT locus.
Function
[TPMT_HUMAN] Catalyzes the S-methylation of thiopurine drugs such as 6-mercaptopurine.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Human thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) exhibits considerable person-to-person variation in activity to thiopurine drugs. We have produced an N-terminal truncation of human TPMT protein, crystallized the protein in complex with the methyl donor product S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine, and determined the atomic structure to the resolution of 1.58 and 1.89 A, respectively, for the seleno-methionine incorporated and wild type proteins. The structure of TPMT indicates that the naturally occurring amino acid polymorphisms scatter throughout the structure, and that the amino acids whose alteration have the most influence on function are those that form intra-molecular stabilizing interactions (mainly van der Waals contacts). Furthermore, we have produced four TPMT mutant proteins containing variant alleles of TPMT*2, *3A, *3B, and *3C and examined the structure-function relationship of the mutant proteins based on their expression and solubility in bacteria and their thermostability profile.
Structural basis of allele variation of human thiopurine-S-methyltransferase.,Wu H, Horton JR, Battaile K, Allali-Hassani A, Martin F, Zeng H, Loppnau P, Vedadi M, Bochkarev A, Plotnikov AN, Cheng X Proteins. 2007 Apr 1;67(1):198-208. PMID:17243178[2]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Peng Y, Feng Q, Wilk D, Adjei AA, Salavaggione OE, Weinshilboum RM, Yee VC. Structural basis of substrate recognition in thiopurine s-methyltransferase. Biochemistry. 2008 Jun 10;47(23):6216-25. Epub 2008 May 17. PMID:18484748 doi:10.1021/bi800102x
- ↑ Wu H, Horton JR, Battaile K, Allali-Hassani A, Martin F, Zeng H, Loppnau P, Vedadi M, Bochkarev A, Plotnikov AN, Cheng X. Structural basis of allele variation of human thiopurine-S-methyltransferase. Proteins. 2007 Apr 1;67(1):198-208. PMID:17243178 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.21272
