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==Crystal Structure Analysis of Glutathione-dependent formaldehyde-activating enzyme (Gfa)==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[1xa8]] is a 4 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracoccus_denitrificans Paracoccus denitrificans]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1XA8 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1XA8 FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 2.4&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=GOL:GLYCEROL'>GOL</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=GSH:GLUTATHIONE'>GSH</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=SO4:SULFATE+ION'>SO4</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:ZINC+ION'>ZN</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1xa8 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=1xa8 OCA], [https://pdbe.org/1xa8 PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=1xa8 RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/1xa8 PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=1xa8 ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/GFA_PARDE GFA_PARDE] Catalyzes the condensation of formaldehyde and glutathione to S-hydroxymethylglutathione.<ref>PMID:11741920</ref> 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
The crystal structures of glutathione-dependent formaldehyde-activating enzyme (Gfa) from Paracoccus denitrificans, which catalyzes the formation of S-hydroxymethylglutathione from formaldehyde and glutathione, and its complex with glutathione (Gfa-GTT) have been determined. Gfa has a new fold with two zinc-sulfur centers, one that is structural (zinc tetracoordinated) and one catalytic (zinc apparently tricoordinated). In Gfa-GTT, the catalytic zinc is displaced due to disulfide bond formation of glutathione with one of the zinc-coordinating cysteines. Soaking crystals of Gfa-GTT with formaldehyde restores the holoenzyme. Accordingly, the displaced zinc forms a complex by scavenging formaldehyde and glutathione. The activation of formaldehyde and of glutathione in this zinc complex favors the final nucleophilic addition, followed by relocation of zinc in the catalytic site. Therefore, the structures of Gfa and Gfa-GTT draw the critical association between a dynamic zinc redox switch and a nucleophilic addition as a new facet of the redox activity of zinc-sulfur sites.

A dynamic zinc redox switch.,Neculai AM, Neculai D, Griesinger C, Vorholt JA, Becker S J Biol Chem. 2005 Jan 28;280(4):2826-30. Epub 2004 Nov 17. PMID:15548539<ref>PMID:15548539</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Paracoccus denitrificans]]
[[Category: Becker S]]
[[Category: Griesinger C]]
[[Category: Neculai AM]]
[[Category: Neculai D]]
[[Category: Vorholt JA]]