2wtu

Crystal structure of Escherichia coli MutS in complex with a 16 basepair oligo containing an A.A mismatch.

spinqualitylabelsall models 2wtu, resolution 3.40Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2wtu is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli and Synthetic construct. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 3.4Å Ligands: ADP, CL Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function MUTS_ECOLI This protein is involved in the repair of mismatches in DNA. It is possible that it carries out the mismatch recognition step. This protein has a weak ATPase activity. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed The DNA mismatch repair protein MutS acts as a molecular switch. It toggles between ADP and ATP states and is regulated by mismatched DNA. This is analogous to G-protein switches and the regulation of their "on" and "off" states by guanine exchange factors. Although GDP release in monomeric GTPases is accelerated by guanine exchange factor-induced removal of magnesium from the catalytic site, we found that release of ADP from MutS is not influenced by the metal ion in this manner. Rather, ADP release is induced by the binding of mismatched DNA at the opposite end of the protein, a long-range allosteric response resembling the mechanism of activation of heterotrimeric GTPases. Magnesium influences switching in MutS by inducing faster and tighter ATP binding, allowing rapid downstream responses. MutS mutants with decreased affinity for the metal ion are impaired in fast switching and in vivo mismatch repair. Thus, the G-proteins and MutS conceptually employ the same efficient use of the high energy cofactor: slow hydrolysis in the absence of a signal and fast conversion to the active state when required. Magnesium coordination controls the molecular switch function of DNA mismatch repair protein MutS.,Lebbink JH, Fish A, Reumer A, Natrajan G, Winterwerp HH, Sixma TK J Biol Chem. 2010 Apr 23;285(17):13131-41. Epub 2010 Feb 18. PMID:20167596 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also DNA mismatch repair protein 3D structures

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