3hbh

Class IV chitinase structure from Picea abies at 2.25A

spinqualitylabelsall models 3hbh, resolution 2.25Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3hbh is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Picea abies. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 3hbd, 3hbe Activity: Chitinase, with EC number 3.2.1.14 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed Chitinases help plants defend themselves against fungal attack, and play roles in other processes, including development. The catalytic modules of most plant chitinases belong to glycoside hydrolase family 19. We report here x-ray structures of such a module from a Norway spruce enzyme, the first for any family 19 class IV chitinase. The bi-lobed structure has a wide cleft lined by conserved residues; the most interesting for catalysis are Glu113, the proton donor, and Glu122, believed to be a general base that activate a catalytic water molecule. Comparisons to class I and II enzymes show that loop deletions in the class IV proteins make the catalytic cleft shorter and wider; from modeling studies, it is predicted that only three N-acetylglucosamine-binding subsites exist in class IV. Further, the structural comparisons suggest that the family 19 enzymes become more closed on substrate binding. Attempts to solve the structure of the complete protein including the associated chitin-binding module failed, however, modeling studies based on close relatives indicate that the binding module recognizes at most three N-acetylglucosamine units. The combined results suggest that the class IV enzymes are optimized for shorter substrates than the class I and II enzymes, or alternatively, that they are better suited for action on substrates where only small regions of chitin chain are accessible. Intact spruce chitinase is shown to possess antifungal activity, which requires the binding module; removing this module had no effect on measured chitinase activity. The first crystal structures of a family 19 class IV chitinase: the enzyme from Norway spruce.,Ubhayasekera W, Rawat R, Ho SW, Wiweger M, Von Arnold S, Chye ML, Mowbray SL Plant Mol Biol. 2009 Jul 23. PMID:19629717 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Chitinase

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