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1hm8
From Proteopedia
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| , resolution 2.50Å | |||||||
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| Ligands: | , | ||||||
| Gene: | GLMU (Streptococcus pneumoniae) | ||||||
| Activity: | UDP-N-acetylglucosamine diphosphorylase, with EC number 2.7.7.23 | ||||||
| Related: | 1HM0, 1HM9, 1FXJ, 1FWY
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF S.PNEUMONIAE N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLTRANSFERASE, GLMU, BOUND TO ACETYL COENZYME A
Overview
The bifunctional bacterial enzyme N-acetyl-glucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU) catalyzes the two-step formation of UDP-GlcNAc, a fundamental precursor in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. With the emergence of new resistance mechanisms against beta-lactam and glycopeptide antibiotics, the biosynthetic pathway of UDP-GlcNAc represents an attractive target for drug design of new antibacterial agents. The crystal structures of Streptococcus pneumoniae GlmU in unbound form, in complex with acetyl-coenzyme A (AcCoA) and in complex with both AcCoA and the end product UDP-GlcNAc, have been determined and refined to 2.3, 2.5, and 1.75 A, respectively. The S. pneumoniae GlmU molecule is organized in two separate domains connected via a long alpha-helical linker and associates as a trimer, with the 50-A-long left-handed beta-helix (LbetaH) C-terminal domains packed against each other in a parallel fashion and the C-terminal region extended far away from the LbetaH core and exchanged with the beta-helix from a neighboring subunit in the trimer. AcCoA binding induces the formation of a long and narrow tunnel, enclosed between two adjacent LbetaH domains and the interchanged C-terminal region of the third subunit, giving rise to an original active site architecture at the junction of three subunits.
About this Structure
1HM8 is a Single protein structure of sequence from Streptococcus pneumoniae. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Crystal structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase bound to acetyl-coenzyme A reveals a novel active site architecture., Sulzenbacher G, Gal L, Peneff C, Fassy F, Bourne Y, J Biol Chem. 2001 Apr 13;276(15):11844-51. Epub 2000 Dec 15. PMID:11118459
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Categories: Single protein | Streptococcus pneumoniae | UDP-N-acetylglucosamine diphosphorylase | Bourne, Y. | Fassy, F. | Gal, L. | Peneff, C. | Sulzenbacher, G. | Acetyltransferase | Bifunctional | Crystallography | Domain-interchange | Drug design | Left-handed-beta-helix | Pyrophosphorylase rossmann-like fold | Trimer
