Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages 1211-1223Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00831-6
Keywords
flavoproteins; hydride transfer; pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthesis; reaction mechanism; structural comparisons; orotate binding
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The flavoenzymes dihydroorotate dehydrogenases (DHODs) catalyze the fourth and only redox step in the de novo biosynthesis of UMP. Enzymes belonging to class 2, according to their amino acid sequence, are characterized by having a serine residue as the catalytic base and a longer N terminus. The structure of class 2 E. coli DHOD, determined by MAD phasing, showed that the N-terminal extension forms a separate domain. The catalytic serine residue has an environment differing from the equivalent cysteine in class 1 DHODs. Significant differences between the two classes of DHODs were identified by comparison of the E. coli DHOD with the other known DHOD structures, and differences with the class 2 human DHOD explain the variation in their inhibitors.
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