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Peptide deformylase catalyzes the deformylation reaction of the amino terminal fMet residue of newly synthesized proteins in bacteria, and most likely in Plasmodium falciparum, and has therefore been identified as a potential antibacterial and antimalarial drug target. The structure of P. falciparum peptide deformylase, determined at 2.8 A resolution with ten subunits per asymmetric unit, is similar to the bacterial enzyme with the residues involved in catalysis, the position of the bound metal ion, and a catalytically important water structurally conserved between the two enzymes. However, critical differences in the substrate binding region explain the poor affinity of E. coli deformylase inhibitors and substrates toward the Plasmodium enzyme. The Plasmodium structure serves as a guide for designing novel antimalarials.

1JYM is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium_falciparum Plasmodium falciparum] with <scene name='pdbligand=CO:'>CO</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligand ligand]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formylmethionine_deformylase Formylmethionine deformylase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.5.1.31 3.5.1.31] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1JYM OCA].  

[[Category: Hol, W G.J.]]

[[Category: Nguyen, K T.]]

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