2hmf

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2hmf, resolution 2.700Å

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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 with , and as ligands. Active as Aspartate kinase, with EC number 2.7.2.4 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

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