3b8u

Crystal structure of Escherichia coli alaine racemase mutant E221A

spinqualitylabelsall models 3b8u, resolution 3.00Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3b8u is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Ecoli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: PLP, SO4 NonStd Res: KCX Related: 2rjg, 2rjh, 3b8t, 3b8v, 3b8w Gene: alr (ECOLI) Activity: Alanine racemase, with EC number 5.1.1.1 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum Function [ALR1_ECOLI] Catalyzes the interconversion of L-alanine and D-alanine. Provides the D-alanine required for cell wall biosynthesis. 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 Alanine racemase (Alr) is an important enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of L-alanine and D-alanine, an essential building block in the peptidoglycan biosynthesis. For the small size of the Alr active site, its conserved substrate entryway has been proposed as a potential choice for drug design. In this work, we fully analyzed the crystal structures of the native, the D-cycloserine-bound, and four mutants (P219A, E221A, E221K, and E221P) of biosynthetic Alr from Escherichia coli (EcAlr) and studied the potential roles in substrate orientation for the key residues involved in the substrate entryway in conjunction with the enzymatic assays. Structurally, it was discovered that EcAlr is similar to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa catabolic Alr in both overall and active site geometries. Mutation of the conserved negatively charged residue aspartate 164 or glutamate 165 at the substrate entryway could obviously reduce the binding affinity of enzyme against the substrate and decrease the turnover numbers in both D- to L-Ala and L- to D-Ala directions, especially when mutated to lysine with the opposite charge. However, mutation of Pro219 or Glu221 had only negligible or a small influence on the enzymatic activity. Together with the enzymatic and structural investigation results, we thus proposed that the negatively charged residues Asp164 and Glu165 around the substrate entryway play an important role in substrate orientation with cooperation of the positively charged Arg280 and Arg300 on the opposite monomer. Our findings are expected to provide some useful structural information for inhibitor design targeting the substrate entryway of Alr. Residues Asp164 and Glu165 at the substrate entryway function potently in substrate orientation of alanine racemase from E. coli: Enzymatic characterization with crystal structure analysis.,Wu D, Hu T, Zhang L, Chen J, Du J, Ding J, Jiang H, Shen X Protein Sci. 2008 Jun;17(6):1066-76. Epub 2008 Apr 23. PMID:18434499 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Alanine racemase

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