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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 349, Issue 4, Pages 774-786Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.04.011
Keywords
ThiF; thiamin biosynthesis; adenylation; ubiquitin
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- NCI NIH HHS [R25 CA023944, P30CA21765] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01GM69530] Funding Source: Medline
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Escherichia coli ThiF is an enzyme in the biosynthetic cascade for generating the essential cofactor thiamin pyrophosphate. In this cascade, ThiF catalyzes adenylation of the C terminus of ThiS. We report here the crystal structures of ThiF, alone and in complex with ATP, The structures provide insight into a preference for ATP during adenylation of the protein ThiS. Additionally, the structures reveal in ordered crossover loop predicted to clamp the flexible tail of ThiS into the ThiF active site during the adenylation reaction. The importance of the crossover loop for ThiF activity is highlighted by mutational analysis. Comparison Of ThiF with the structural homologues MoeB, APPBP1-UBA3, and SAE1-SAE2 reveals that the ATP-binding site, including an arginine-finger, is maintained throughout evolution, and shows divergence occurring in protein substrate-binding sites and regions devoted to unique steps in the specific function of each enzyme. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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