Structural highlights
6dxx is a 6 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
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| Method: | X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.7Å |
| Ligands: | , , , , |
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT |
Function
NAAA_HUMAN Degrades bioactive fatty acid amides to their corresponding acids, with the following preference: N-palmitoylethanolamine > N-myristoylethanolamine > N-lauroylethanolamine = N-stearoylethanolamine > N-arachidonoylethanolamine > N-oleoylethanolamine. Also exhibits weak hydrolytic activity against the ceramides N-lauroylsphingosine and N-palmitoylsphingosine.[1]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Palmitoylethanolamide is a bioactive lipid that strongly alleviates pain and inflammation in animal models and in humans. Its signaling activity is terminated through degradation by N-acylethanolamine acid amidase (NAAA), a cysteine hydrolase expressed at high levels in immune cells. Pharmacological inhibitors of NAAA activity exert profound analgesic and antiinflammatory effects in rodent models, pointing to this protein as a potential target for therapeutic drug discovery. To facilitate these efforts and to better understand the molecular mechanism of action of NAAA, we determined crystal structures of this enzyme in various activation states and in complex with several ligands, including both a covalent and a reversible inhibitor. Self-proteolysis exposes the otherwise buried active site of NAAA to allow catalysis. Formation of a stable substrate- or inhibitor-binding site appears to be conformationally coupled to the interaction of a pair of hydrophobic helices in the enzyme with lipid membranes, resulting in the creation of a linear hydrophobic cavity near the active site that accommodates the ligand's acyl chain.
Molecular mechanism of activation of the immunoregulatory amidase NAAA.,Gorelik A, Gebai A, Illes K, Piomelli D, Nagar B Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Oct 9. pii: 1811759115. doi:, 10.1073/pnas.1811759115. PMID:30301806[2]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Tsuboi K, Sun YX, Okamoto Y, Araki N, Tonai T, Ueda N. Molecular characterization of N-acylethanolamine-hydrolyzing acid amidase, a novel member of the choloylglycine hydrolase family with structural and functional similarity to acid ceramidase. J Biol Chem. 2005 Mar 25;280(12):11082-92. Epub 2005 Jan 17. PMID:15655246 doi:http://dx.doi.org/M413473200
- ↑ Gorelik A, Gebai A, Illes K, Piomelli D, Nagar B. Molecular mechanism of activation of the immunoregulatory amidase NAAA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Oct 9. pii: 1811759115. doi:, 10.1073/pnas.1811759115. PMID:30301806 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811759115
