Structural highlights
Function
FABB_ECOLI Catalyzes the condensation reaction of fatty acid synthesis by the addition to an acyl acceptor of two carbons from malonyl-ACP. Specific for elongation from C-10 to unsaturated C-16 and C-18 fatty acids.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions are essential transformations in natural product biosynthesis. During de novo fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis, beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthases (KS), catalyze this process via a decarboxylative Claisen-like condensation reaction. KSs must recognize multiple chemically distinct ACPs and choreograph a ping-pong mechanism, often in an iterative fashion. Here, we report crystal structures of substrate mimetic bearing ACPs in complex with the elongating KSs from Escherichia coli, FabF and FabB, in order to better understand the stereochemical features governing substrate discrimination by KSs. Complemented by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and mutagenesis studies, these structures reveal conformational states accessed during KS catalysis. These data taken together support a gating mechanism that regulates acyl-ACP binding and substrate delivery to the KS active site. Two active site loops undergo large conformational excursions during this dynamic gating mechanism and are likely evolutionarily conserved features in elongating KSs.
Gating mechanism of elongating beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthases.,Mindrebo JT, Patel A, Kim WE, Davis TD, Chen A, Bartholow TG, La Clair JJ, McCammon JA, Noel JP, Burkart MD Nat Commun. 2020 Apr 7;11(1):1727. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15455-x. PMID:32265440[1]
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References
- ↑ Mindrebo JT, Patel A, Kim WE, Davis TD, Chen A, Bartholow TG, La Clair JJ, McCammon JA, Noel JP, Burkart MD. Gating mechanism of elongating beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthases. Nat Commun. 2020 Apr 7;11(1):1727. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15455-x. PMID:32265440 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15455-x
