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==Crystal structure of probable thiosulfate sulfurtransferase SSEA (rhodanese) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[3hzu]] is a 1 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=3HZU OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=3HZU 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]] 2.1&#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=SO4:SULFATE+ION'>SO4</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=3hzu FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=3hzu OCA], [https://pdbe.org/3hzu PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=3hzu RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/3hzu PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=3hzu ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/THT2_MYCTU THT2_MYCTU] 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
The genus Mycobacterium comprises major human pathogens such as the causative agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and many environmental species. Tuberculosis claims approximately 1.5 million lives every year, and drug resistant strains of Mtb are rapidly emerging. To aid the development of new tuberculosis drugs, major efforts are currently under way to determine crystal structures of Mtb drug targets and proteins involved in pathogenicity. However, a major obstacle to obtaining crystal structures is the generation of well-diffracting crystals. Proteins from thermophiles can have better crystallization and diffraction properties than proteins from mesophiles, but their sequences and structures are often divergent. Here, we establish a thermophilic mycobacterial model organism, Mycobacterium thermoresistibile (Mth), for the study of Mtb proteins. Mth tolerates higher temperatures than Mtb or other environmental mycobacteria such as M. smegmatis. Mth proteins are on average more soluble than Mtb proteins, and comparison of the crystal structures of two pairs of orthologous proteins reveals nearly identical folds, indicating that Mth structures provide good surrogates for Mtb structures. This study introduces a thermophile as a source of protein for the study of a closely related human pathogen and marks a new approach to solving challenging mycobacterial protein structures.

Mycobacterium thermoresistibile as a source of thermostable orthologs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins.,Edwards TE, Liao R, Phan I, Myler PJ, Grundner C Protein Sci. 2012 Jul;21(7):1093-6. doi: 10.1002/pro.2084. Epub 2012 May 24. PMID:22544630<ref>PMID:22544630</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Sulfurtransferase|Sulfurtransferase]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Mycobacterium tuberculosis]]