4olp

Ligand-free structure of the GrpU microcompartment shell protein from Pectobacterium wasabiae

spinqualitylabelsall models 4olp, resolution 2.79Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4olp is a 4 chain structure. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 4olo Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum Publication Abstract from PubMed Recently, progress has been made toward understanding the functional diversity of bacterial microcompartment (MCP) systems, which serve as protein-based metabolic organelles in diverse microbes. New types of MCPs have been identified, including the glycyl-radical propanediol (Grp) MCP. Within these elaborate protein complexes, BMC-domain shell proteins assemble to form a polyhedral barrier that encapsulates the enzymatic contents of the MCP. Interestingly, the Grp MCP contains a number of shell proteins with unusual sequence features. GrpU is one such shell protein, whose amino acid sequence is particularly divergent from other members of the BMC-domain superfamily of proteins that effectively defines all MCPs. Expression, purification, and subsequent characterization of the protein showed, unexpectedly, that it binds an iron-sulfur cluster. We determined X-ray crystal structures of two GrpU orthologs, providing the first structural insight into the homohexameric BMC-domain shell proteins of the Grp system. The X-ray structures of GrpU, both obtained in the apo form, combined with spectroscopic analyses and computational modeling, show that the metal cluster resides in the central pore of the BMC shell protein at a position of broken 6-fold symmetry. The result is a structurally polymorphic iron-sulfur cluster binding site that appears to be unique among metalloproteins studied to date. Identification of a Unique Fe-S Cluster Binding Site in a Glycyl-Radical Type Microcompartment Shell Protein.,Thompson MC, Wheatley NM, Jorda J, Sawaya MR, Gidaniyan SD, Ahmed H, Yang Z, McCarty KN, Whitelegge JP, Yeates TO J Mol Biol. 2014 Aug 4. pii: S0022-2836(14)00366-0. doi:, 10.1016/j.jmb.2014.07.018. PMID:25102080 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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