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Phosphatidylinositol (PI) is essential for Mycobacterium tuberculosis viability and the enzymes involved in the PI biosynthetic pathway are potential antimycobacterial agents for which little structural information is available. The rate-limiting step in the pathway is the production of (L)-myo-inositol 1-phosphate from (D)-glucose 6-phosphate, a complex reaction catalyzed by the enzyme inositol 1-phosphate synthase. We have determined the crystal structure of this enzyme from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tbINO) at 1.95 A resolution, bound to the cofactor NAD+. The active site is located within a deep cleft at the junction between two domains. The unexpected presence of a zinc ion here suggests a mechanistic difference from the eukaryotic inositol synthases, which are stimulated by monovalent cations, that may be exploitable in developing selective inhibitors of tbINO.

1GR0 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis] with <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=CAC:'>CAC</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=NAD:'>NAD</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol-3-phosphate_synthase Inositol-3-phosphate synthase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=5.5.1.4 5.5.1.4] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1GR0 OCA].  

[[Category: Mcdonald, N Q.]]

[[Category: Norman, R A.]]

[[Category: TBSGC, TB Structural Genomics Consortium.]]

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