5amm

Structure of Leishmania major peroxidase D211N mutant

spinqualitylabelsall models 5amm, resolution 2.09Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 5amm is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Leishmania major. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CA, HEM, K Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function Q4Q3K2_LEIMA Publication Abstract from PubMed Leishmania major, the parasitic causative agent of leishmaniasis, produces a heme peroxidase (LmP), which catalyzes the peroxidation of mitochondrial cytochrome c (LmCytc) for protection from reactive oxygen species produced by the host. The association of LmP and LmCytc, which is known from kinetics measurements to be very fast ( approximately 108 M-1 s-1), does not involve major conformational changes and has been suggested to be dominated by electrostatic interactions. We used Brownian dynamics simulations to investigate the mechanism of formation of the LmP-LmCytc complex. Our simulations confirm the importance of electrostatic interactions involving the negatively charged D211 residue at the LmP active site, and reveal a previously unrecognized role in complex formation for negatively charged residues in helix A of LmP. The crystal structure of the D211N mutant of LmP reported herein is essentially identical to that of wild-type LmP, reinforcing the notion that it is the loss of charge at the active site, and not a change in structure, that reduces the association rate of the D211N variant of LmP. The Brownian dynamics simulations further show that complex formation occurs via a "bind and crawl" mechanism, in which LmCytc first docks to a location on helix A that is far from the active site, forming an initial encounter complex, and then moves along helix A to the active site. An atomistic molecular dynamics simulation confirms the helix A binding site, and steady state activity assays and stopped-flow kinetics measurements confirm the role of helix A charges in the association mechanism. "Bind and Crawl" Association Mechanism of Leishmania major Peroxidase and Cytochrome c Revealed by Brownian and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.,Fields JB, Hollingsworth SA, Chreifi G, Heyden M, Arce AP, Magana-Garcia HI, Poulos TL, Tobias DJ Biochemistry. 2015 Dec 3. PMID:26598276 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Ascorbate peroxidase 3D structures

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