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7xel

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SufS soaked with D-penicillamine

Structural highlights

7xel is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis str. 168. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.8Å
Ligands:	, , ,
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

SUFS_BACSU Enzyme able to deliver sulfur to partners involved in Fe-S cluster assembly. Catalyzes the removal of elemental sulfur atoms from L-cysteine to produce L-alanine. Activity is stimulated 40-to 100-fold by SufU, which acts as a second substrate for this enzyme following release of Ala, and generating SufU.S. A mixture of SufS, SufU, Fra and L-cysteine is able to reconstitute Fe-S clusters on apo-aconitase (citB), reconstituting aconitase activity.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Publication Abstract from PubMed

The reactivity of pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP) with cysteine and its derivatives has been of increasing interest because the corresponding product, a thiazolidine PLP-cysteine adduct, can be formed via PLP-dependent enzymatic and non-enzymatic reactions. Here, we report biochemical and X-ray crystallographic snapshots of thiazolidine formation in reaction of D-cysteine with PLP in SufS, a PLP-dependent L-cysteine desulfurase. By comparing L- and D-penicillamine-bound SufS showing no thiazolidine formation in the crystals with D-cysteine SufS, we proposed a thiazolidine formation mechanism with important factors: the polar environments provided by the carbonyl groups of Ala28-Ala29 and Lys224-mediated base catalysis for the nucleophilic thiolate of D-cysteine.

Visualizing thiazolidine ring formation in the reaction of D-cysteine and pyridoxal-5'-phosphate within L-cysteine desulfurase SufS.,Nakamura R, Fujishiro T Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2025 Mar 25;754:151497. doi: , 10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.151497. Epub 2025 Feb 19. PMID:40020322^[4]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

References

↑ Albrecht AG, Netz DJ, Miethke M, Pierik AJ, Burghaus O, Peuckert F, Lill R, Marahiel MA. SufU is an essential iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol. 2010 Mar;192(6):1643-51. doi: 10.1128/JB.01536-09. Epub 2010 Jan 22. PMID:20097860 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.01536-09
↑ Selbach B, Earles E, Dos Santos PC. Kinetic analysis of the bisubstrate cysteine desulfurase SufS from Bacillus subtilis. Biochemistry. 2010 Oct 12;49(40):8794-802. doi: 10.1021/bi101358k. Epub 2010 Sep , 16. PMID:20822158 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi101358k
↑ Albrecht AG, Landmann H, Nette D, Burghaus O, Peuckert F, Seubert A, Miethke M, Marahiel MA. The frataxin homologue Fra plays a key role in intracellular iron channeling in Bacillus subtilis. Chembiochem. 2011 Sep 5;12(13):2052-61. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201100190. Epub 2011, Jul 8. PMID:21744456 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201100190
↑ Nakamura R, Fujishiro T. Visualizing thiazolidine ring formation in the reaction of D-cysteine and pyridoxal-5'-phosphate within L-cysteine desulfurase SufS. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2025 Mar 25;754:151497. PMID:40020322 doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.151497