2bu3
From Proteopedia
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| , resolution 1.40Å | |||||||
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| Ligands: | , , , | ||||||
| Activity: | Glutathione gamma-glutamylcysteinyltransferase, with EC number 2.3.2.15 | ||||||
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||
ACYL-ENZYME INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN ALR0975 AND GLUTATHIONE AT PH 3.4
Overview
Phytochelatin synthase (PCS) is a key enzyme for heavy-metal detoxification in plants. PCS catalyzes the production of glutathione (GSH)-derived peptides (called phytochelatins or PCs) that bind heavy-metal ions before vacuolar sequestration. The enzyme can also hydrolyze GSH and GS-conjugated xenobiotics. In the cyanobacterium Nostoc, the enzyme (NsPCS) contains only the catalytic domain of the eukaryotic synthase and can act as a GSH hydrolase and weakly as a peptide ligase. The crystal structure of NsPCS in its native form solved at a 2.0-A resolution shows that NsPCS is a dimer that belongs to the papain superfamily of cysteine proteases, with a conserved catalytic machinery. Moreover, the structure of the protein solved as a complex with GSH at a 1.4-A resolution reveals a gamma-glutamyl cysteine acyl-enzyme intermediate stabilized in a cavity of the protein adjacent to a second putative GSH binding site. GSH hydrolase and PCS activities of the enzyme are discussed in the light of both structures.
About this Structure
2BU3 is a Single protein structure of sequence from Anabaena sp.. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
A papain-like enzyme at work: native and acyl-enzyme intermediate structures in phytochelatin synthesis., Vivares D, Arnoux P, Pignol D, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Dec 27;102(52):18848-53. Epub 2005 Dec 9. PMID:16339904
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