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(+)-Hydantocidin, a recently discovered natural spironucleoside with potent herbicidal activity, is shown to be a proherbicide that, after phosphorylation at the 5' position, inhibits adenylosuccinate synthetase, an enzyme involved in de novo purine synthesis. The mode of binding of hydantocidin 5'-monophosphate to the target enzyme was analyzed by determining the crystal structure of the enzyme-inhibitor complex at 2.6-A resolution. It was found that adenylosuccinate synthetase binds the phosphorylated compound in the same fashion as it does adenosine 5'-monophosphate, the natural feedback regulator of this enzyme. This work provides the first crystal structure of a herbicide-target complex reported to date.

1SON is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli] with <scene name='pdbligand=AMP:'>AMP</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=BME:'>BME</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylosuccinate_synthase Adenylosuccinate synthase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=6.3.4.4 6.3.4.4] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1SON OCA].  

[[Category: Cowan-Jacob, S W.]]

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