3az8

Beta-Hydroxyacyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Dehydratase (FabZ) from Plasmodium falciparum in complex with NAS21

spinqualitylabelsall models 3az8, resolution 3.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3az8 is a 24 chain structure with sequence from Plafa. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CL, GOL, PEG, PO4, S21 Related: 1z6b, 1zhg, 3az9, 3aza, 3azb Gene: fabZ (PLAFA) Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed The beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein dehydratase of Plasmodium falciparum (PfFabZ) catalyzes the third and important reaction of the fatty acid elongation cycle. The crystal structure of PfFabZ is available in hexameric (active) and dimeric (inactive) forms. However, PfFabZ has not been crystallized with any bound inhibitors until now. We have designed a new condition to crystallize PfFabZ with its inhibitors bound in the active site, and determined the crystal structures of four of these complexes. This is the first report on any FabZ enzyme with active site inhibitors that interact directly with the catalytic residues. Inhibitor binding not only stabilized the substrate binding loop but also revealed that the substrate binding tunnel has an overall shape of "U". In the crystal structures, residue Phe169 located in the middle of the tunnel was found to be in two different conformations, open and closed. Thus, Phe169, merely by changing its side chain conformation, appears to be controlling the length of the tunnel to make it suitable for accommodating longer substrates. The volume of the substrate binding tunnel is determined by the sequence as well as by the conformation of the substrate binding loop region and varies between organisms for accommodating fatty acids of different chain lengths. This report on the crystal structures of the complexes of PfFabZ provides the structural basis of the inhibitory mechanism of the enzyme that could be used to improve the potency of inhibitors against an important component of fatty acid synthesis common to many infectious organisms. Structural basis for the functional and inhibitory mechanisms of beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein dehydratase (FabZ) of Plasmodium falciparum.,Maity K, Venkata BS, Kapoor N, Surolia N, Surolia A, Suguna K J Struct Biol. 2011 Nov;176(2):238-49. Epub 2011 Aug 6. PMID:21843645 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein dehydratase 3D structures

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