Annotation

Description

The shikimate pathway links metabolism of carbohydrates to biosynthesis of aromatic compounds. In a sequence of seven steps, phosphoenolpyruvate and erythrose 4-phosphate are converted to chorismate, a precursor of the aromatic amino acids and many secondary aromatic metabolites. The shikimate pathway is essential for most bacteria and plants but absent in humans, making it an attractive target for the development of novel antibiotics. The third step in the pathway consists of the dehydration of dehydroquinate to dehydroshikimate. This reaction can be catalyzed by two enzyme families which utilize distinct mechanisms. The protein structure presented here is representative of the type I enzyme family. In this structure malonate and boric acid, components of the crystallization mixture, are observed within the active site of the enzyme. The two compounds are adjacently positioned and are in close enough proximity to form a hydrogen bonding interaction between oxygen atoms of malonate’s carboxyl group and boric acid’s hydroxyl group. A superposition with the substrate bound structure (PDB code 3M7W) reveals that the malonate mimics interactions made by the substrate’s carboxyl group, while the boric acid mimics interactions made by the substrate’s 4- and 5-hydroxyl groups. Similar to the enzyme-citrate complex (PDB code 3LB0), a surface loop that adopts an open and partially disordered in the enzyme’s apo-state (PDB 3L2I) but closes to form critical interactions with the substrate in the substrate bound-state, is observed to adopt a nearly closed conformation, which allows for the establishment of a loop-malonate hydrogen bond. Another interesting feature of this structure concerns the unusual behavior of the hexa-histidine purification tag. Within chain B the tag is partially ordered and two of its histidines, along with His134 from the protein, His134 from a chain A crystal contact, and an imadizole from the crystallization mixture are observed to coordinate a nickel ion.  

Functional assignment

 

Structure information

Unit cell parameters

Space Group

P 21 21 21  

Unit Cell

a=36.56Å, b=72.57Å, c=171.35Å
α=90.00, β=90.00, γ=90.00 

Solvent content

 

Matthews coefficient

 

Refinement

Data for the highest resolution shell is in parentheses.

Resolution range

28.56-1.45Å (1.49-1.45Å)  

R_all(%)

14.5 

R_work(%)

14.4 (17.9) 

R_free(%)

17.5 (20.1) 

Num. observed reflections

81695 (5688) 

Num. R_free reflections

4084 (289) 

Completeness(%)

99.6 (96.0) 

Model parameters

Num Atoms

4614  

Num Waters

563  

Num Hetatoms

647  

Model mean isotropic B factor

14.750Ų  

RMSD bond length

0.025Å  

RMSD bond angle

2.200°  

Filename uploaded

rcsb065734.pdb (uploaded on May 23, 2011 5:41 PM)  

Inserted

May 23, 2011