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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 357, Issue 1, Pages 221-235Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.12.049
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pyruvate formate lyase; glycerol dehydratase; PFL2; glycyl radical; hyperthermophile
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We have solved the crystal structure of a PFL2 from Archaeglobus fulgidus at 2.9 angstrom resolution. Of the three previously solved enzyme structures of glycyl radical enzymes, pyruvate formate lyase (PFL), anaerobic ribonucleotide reductase and glycerol dehydratase (GD), the last one is clearly most similar to PFL2. We observed electron density in the active site of PFL2, which we modelled as glycerol. The orientation of the glycerol is different from that in GD, and changes in the active site indicate that the actual substrate of PFL2 is bigger than a glycerol molecule, but sequence and structural homology suggest that PFL2 may be a dehydratase. Crystal packing, solution X-ray scattering and ultracentrifugation experiments show that PFL2 is tetrarneric, unlike otherglycyl radical enzymes. A.fidgichis is a hyperthermophile and PFL2 appears to be stabilized by several factors including an increased number of ion pairs, differences in buried charges, a truncated N terminus, anchoring of loops and N terminus via salt-bridges, changes in the oligomeric interface and perhaps also the higher oligomerization state of the protein. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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