4ccs

The structure of CbiX, the terminal Enzyme for Biosynthesis of Siroheme in Denitrifying Bacteria

spinqualitylabelsall models 4ccs, resolution 1.90Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4ccs is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Atcc 35512. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: EDO, MLT, NA Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed It has recently been shown that the biosynthetic route for both the d1 -haem cofactor of dissimilatory cd1 nitrite reductases and haem, via the novel alternative-haem-synthesis pathway, involves siroheme as an intermediate, which was previously thought to occur only as a cofactor in assimilatory sulphite/nitrite reductases. In many denitrifiers (which require d1 -haem), the pathway to make siroheme remained to be identified. Here we identify and characterize a sirohydrochlorin-ferrochelatase from Paracoccus pantotrophus that catalyses the last step of siroheme synthesis. It is encoded by a gene annotated as cbiX that was previously assumed to be encoding a cobaltochelatase, acting on sirohydrochlorin. Expressing this chelatase from a plasmid restored the wild-type phenotype of an Escherichia coli mutant-strain lacking sirohydrochlorin-ferrochelatase activity, showing that this chelatase can act in the in vivo siroheme synthesis. A DeltacbiX mutant in P. denitrificans was unable to respire anaerobically on nitrate, proving the role of siroheme as a precursor to another cofactor. We report the 1.9 A crystal structure of this ferrochelatase. In vivo analysis of single amino acid variants of this chelatase suggests that two histidines, His127 and His187, are essential for siroheme synthesis. This CbiX can generally be identified in alpha-proteobacteria as the terminal enzyme of siroheme biosynthesis. Identification and characterization of the 'missing' terminal enzyme for siroheme biosynthesis in alpha-proteobacteria.,Bali S, Rollauer S, Roversi P, Raux-Deery E, Lea SM, Warren MJ, Ferguson SJ Mol Microbiol. 2014 Apr;92(1):153-63. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12542. Epub 2014 Mar 13. PMID:24673795 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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