4hg3

Structural insights into yeast Nit2: wild-type yeast Nit2 in complex with alpha-ketoglutarate

spinqualitylabelsall models 4hg3, resolution 1.93Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4hg3 is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: AKG, CAC, GOL Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function NIT2_YEAST Publication Abstract from PubMed The Nit (nitrilase-like) protein subfamily constitutes branch 10 of the nitrilase superfamily. Nit proteins are widely distributed in nature. Mammals possess two members of the Nit subfamily, namely Nit1 and Nit2. Based on sequence similarity, yeast Nit2 (yNit2) is a homologue of mouse Nit1, a tumour-suppressor protein whose substrate specificity is not yet known. Previous studies have shown that mammalian Nit2 (also a putative tumour suppressor) is identical to omega-amidase, an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of alpha-ketoglutaramate (alpha-KGM) and alpha-ketosuccinamate (alpha-KSM) to alpha-ketoglutarate (alpha-KG) and oxaloacetate (OA), respectively. In the present study, crystal structures of wild-type (WT) yNit2 and of WT yNit2 in complex with alpha-KG and with OA were determined. In addition, the crystal structure of the C169S mutant of yNit2 (yNit2-C169S) in complex with an endogenous molecule of unknown structure was also solved. Analysis of the structures revealed that alpha-KG and OA are covalently bound to Cys169 by the formation of a thioester bond between the sulfhydryl group of the cysteine residue and the gamma-carboxyl group of alpha-KG or the beta-carboxyl group of OA, reflecting the presumed reaction intermediates. However, an enzymatic assay suggests that alpha-KGM is a relatively poor substrate of yNit2. Finally, a ligand was found in the active site of yNit2-C169S that may be a natural substrate of yNit2 or an endogenous regulator of enzyme activity. These crystallographic analyses provide information on the mode of substrate/ligand binding at the active site of yNit2 and insights into the catalytic mechanism. These findings suggest that yNit2 may have broad biological roles in yeast, especially in regard to nitrogen homeostasis, and provide a framework for the elucidation of the substrate specificity and biological role of mammalian Nit1. Structures of enzyme-intermediate complexes of yeast Nit2: insights into its catalytic mechanism and different substrate specificity compared with mammalian Nit2.,Liu H, Gao Y, Zhang M, Qiu X, Cooper AJ, Niu L, Teng M Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2013 Aug;69(Pt 8):1470-81. doi:, 10.1107/S0907444913009347. Epub 2013 Jul 18. PMID:23897470 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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