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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 311, Issue 1, Pages 87-100Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4843
Keywords
crystal structure; rational drug design; AZTMP; thymidylate kinase; Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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The X-ray structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis TMP kinase at 1.95 Angstrom resolution is described as a binary complex with its natural substrate TNM. Its main features involve: (i) a clear magesium-binding site; (ii) an alpha-helical conformation for the so-called LID region; and (iii) a high density of positive charges in the active site. There is a network of interactions involving highly conserved side-chains of the protein, the magnesium ion, a sulphate ion mimicking the beta phosphate group of ATF and the TMP molecule itself. All these interactions conspire in stabilizing what appears to be the closed form of the enzyme. A complete multialignement of all (32) known sequences of TMP kinases is presented. Subtle differences in the TMP binding site were noted, as compared to the Escherichia coli, yeast and human enzyme structures, which have been reported recently. These differences could be used to design specific inhibitors of this essential enzyme of nucleotide metabolism. Two cases of compensatory mutations were detected in the TMP binding site of eukarotic and prokaryotic enzymes. In addition, an intriguing high value of the electric field is reported in the vicinity of the phosphate group of TMP and the putative binding site of the gamma phosphate group of ATP. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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