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2ae0
From Proteopedia
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| , resolution 2.000Å | |||||||
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| Ligands: | , | ||||||
| Gene: | mlta (Escherichia coli) | ||||||
| Domains: | mltA, MltA, 3D | ||||||
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, JenaLib, RCSB | ||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||
Crystal structure of MltA from Escherichia coli reveals a unique lytic transglycosylase fold
Overview
Lytic transglycosylases are bacterial enzymes involved in the maintenance and growth of the bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan. They cleave the beta-(1,4)-glycosidic bonds in peptidoglycan forming non-reducing 1,6-anhydromuropeptides. The crystal structure of the lytic transglycosylase MltA from Escherichia coli without a membrane anchor was solved at 2.0A resolution. The enzyme has a fold completely different from those of the other known lytic transglycosylases. It contains two domains, the largest of which has a double-psi beta-barrel fold, similar to that of endoglucanase V from Humicola insolens. The smaller domain also has a beta-barrel fold topology, which is weakly related to that of the RNA-binding domain of ribosomal proteins L25 and TL5. A large groove separates the two domains, which can accommodate a glycan strand, as shown by molecular modelling. Several conserved residues, one of which is in a position equivalent to that of the catalytic acid of the H.insolens endoglucanase, flank this putative substrate-binding groove. Mutation of this residue, Asp308, abolished all activity of the enzyme, supporting the direct participation of this residue in catalysis.
About this Structure
2AE0 is a Single protein structure of sequence from Escherichia coli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Crystal structure of MltA from Escherichia coli reveals a unique lytic transglycosylase fold., van Straaten KE, Dijkstra BW, Vollmer W, Thunnissen AM, J Mol Biol. 2005 Oct 7;352(5):1068-80. PMID:16139297
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