6mt8 | pdb_00006mt8

E. coli DHFR complex modeled with two ligand states

spinqualitylabelsall models 6mt8, resolution 1.35Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 6mt8 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Ecoli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CL, DHF, MG, THG Related: 6mr9 Gene: folA, tmrA, b0048, JW0047 (ECOLI) Activity: Dihydrofolate reductase, with EC number 1.5.1.3 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function [DYR_ECOLI] Key enzyme in folate metabolism. Catalyzes an essential reaction for de novo glycine and purine synthesis, and for DNA precursor synthesis. Publication Abstract from PubMed Time-resolved crystallography is a powerful technique to elucidate molecular mechanisms at both spatial (angstroms) and temporal (picoseconds to seconds) resolutions. We recently discovered an unusually slow reaction at room temperature that occurs on the order of days: the in crystalline reverse oxidative decay of the chemically labile (6S)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate in complex with its producing enzyme Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase. Here, we report the critical analysis of a representative dataset at an intermediate reaction time point. A quinonoid-like intermediate state lying between tetrahydrofolate and dihydrofolate features a near coplanar geometry of the bicyclic pterin moiety, and a tetrahedral sp (3) C6 geometry is proposed based on the apparent mFo-DFc omit electron densities of the ligand. The presence of this intermediate is strongly supported by Bayesian difference refinement. Isomorphous Fo-Fo difference map and multi-state refinement analyses suggest the presence of end-state ligand populations as well, although the putative intermediate state is likely the most populated. A similar quinonoid intermediate previously proposed to transiently exist during the oxidation of tetrahydrofolate was confirmed by polarography and UV-vis spectroscopy to be relatively stable in the oxidation of its close analog tetrahydropterin. We postulate that the constraints on the ligand imposed by the interactions with the protein environment might be the origin of the slow reaction observed by time-resolved crystallography. Time-resolved x-ray crystallography capture of a slow reaction tetrahydrofolate intermediate.,Cao H, Skolnick J Struct Dyn. 2019 Mar 1;6(2):024701. doi: 10.1063/1.5086436. eCollection 2019 Mar. PMID:30868089 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Dihydrofolate reductase 3D structures

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