Journal
PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages 2498-2510Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pro.524
Keywords
nucleosidase; X-ray crystallography; quorum-sensing; activated methyl cycle
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- U S Department of Energy Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE AC02 06CH11357]
- Michigan Economic Development Corporation
- Michigan Technology Tri Corridor [085P1000817]
- University of Toledo
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The bacterial enzyme 5'-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase (MTAN) plays a central role in three essential metabolic pathways in bacteria methionine salvage, purine salvage, and polyamine biosynthesis Recently, its role in the pathway that leads to the production of autoinducer II, an important component in quorum-sensing, has garnered much interest Because of this variety of roles, MTAN is an attractive target for developing new classes of inhibitors that influence bacterial virulence and biofilm formation To gain insight toward the development of new classes of MTAN inhibitors, the interactions between the Helicobacter pylori-encoded MTAN and its substrates and substrate analogs were probed using X-ray crystallography The structures of MTAN, an MTAN-Formycin A complex, and an adenine bound form were solved by molecular replacement and refined to 1 7, 1 8, and 1 6 angstrom, respectively The ribose-binding site in the MTAN and MTAN-adenine cocrystal structures contain a tris[hydroxymethyl]aminomethane molecule that stabilizes the closed form of the enzyme and displaces a nucleophilic water molecule necessary for catalysis This research gives insight to the interactions between MTAN and bound ligands that promote closing of the enzyme active site and highlights the potential for designing new classes of MTAN inhibitors using a link/grow or ligand assembly development strategy based on the described H pylon MTAN crystal structures
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