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    Steegborn, Clemens ; Messerschmidt, Albrecht ; Laber, Bernd ; Streber, Wolfgang ; Huber, Robert ; Clausen, Tim:
The crystal structure of cystathionine γ-synthase from Nicotiana tabacum reveals its substrate and reaction specificity.
  
   
    
    In: Journal of Molecular Biology.
      
      Bd. 290
      
      (1999)
       Heft  5
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     - S. 983-996.
    
    
ISSN 0022-2836
    
    
      
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1999.2935
    
    
    
     
  
  
Abstract
Cystathionine gamma-synthase catalyses the committed step of de novo methionine biosynthesis in micro-organisms and plants, making the enzyme an attractive target for the design of new antibiotics and herbicides. The crystal structure of cystathionine gamma-synthase from Nicotiana tabacum has been solved by Patterson search techniques using the structure of Escherichia coli cystathionine gamma-synthase. The model was refined at 2.9 A resolution to a crystallographic R -factor of 20.1 % (Rfree25.0 %). The physiological substrates of the enzyme, L-homoserine phosphate and L-cysteine, were modelled into the unliganded structure. These complexes support the proposed ping-pong mechanism for catalysis and illustrate the dissimilar substrate specificities of bacterial and plant cystathionine gamma-synthases on a molecular level. The main difference arises from the binding modes of the distal substrate groups (O -acetyl/succinyl versusO -phosphate). Central in fixing the distal phosphate of the plant CGS substrate is an exposed lysine residue that is strictly conserved in plant cystathionine gamma-synthases whereas bacterial enzymes carry a glycine residue at this position. General insight regarding the reaction specificity of transsulphuration enzymes is gained by the comparison to cystathionine beta-lyase from E. coli, indicating the mechanistic importance of a second substrate binding site for L-cysteine which leads to different chemical reaction types.
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| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja | 
| Zusätzliche Informationen: | PubMed-ID: 10438597 | 
        
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Chemie > Lehrstuhl Biochemie > Lehrstuhl Biochemie I - Proteinbiochemie der Signaltransduktion - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Clemens Steegborn Fakultäten Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Chemie Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Chemie > Lehrstuhl Biochemie  | 
        
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein | 
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 540 Chemie | 
| Eingestellt am: | 13 Apr 2015 06:25 | 
| Letzte Änderung: | 08 Jul 2022 13:33 | 
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/10002 | 
        
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