Crystal structure of 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase (ComB) from Clostridium acetobutylicum at 2.6 Å resolution reveals a new fold with a novel active site
Crystal structure of 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase (ComB) from Clostridium acetobutylicum at 2.6 Å resolution reveals a new fold with a novel active site
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10.1002/prot.20978
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发表时间:
2006-11-15
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2.9
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Wilson, Ian A.
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作者:
DiDonato, Michael;Krishna, S. Sri;Wilson, Ian A.
Introduction. The 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase (ComB) gene of Clostridium acetobutylicum encodes an enzyme with a molecular weight of 26,012 Da (residues 1–235) and a calculated isoelectric point of 6.6. ComB is a Mg2-dependent acid phosphatase that catalyzes the second step in Coenzyme M (CoM; 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) biosynthesis (EC 3.1. 3.71), namely, the hydrolysis of (2R)-2-phospho-3-sulpholactate to yield (2R)-3-sulpholactate and phosphate [Fig. 1 (A)]. 1 CoM is the terminal methyl carrier in methanogenesis. Methanogenic archaea begin the production of this essential cofactor by sulfonating phosphoenolpyruvate to form 2-phospho-3-sulfolactate. After dephosphorylation, this precursor is oxidized, decarboxylated, and then reductively thiolated to form CoM. Homologs of ComB have been identified in all available cyanobacterial genome sequences and in genomes from phylogenetically diverse bacteria and archaea. 1, 2 However, many of these organisms lack homologs of other CoM biosynthetic genes. The ComB enzyme from Methanococcus jannaschii is known to act on both stereoisomers of the substrate, and hydrolyzes a number of phosphate monoesters of (S)-2-hydroxycarboxylic acids. 1 The crystal structure of ComA, which catalyzes the first step of CoM biosynthesis, has been reported previously. 3 Herein, we report the crystal structure of ComB, which was determined using the semiautomated, high-throughput pipeline of the Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG). 4Results and Discussion. The crystal structure of ComB [Fig. 1 (B)] was determined to a nominal resolution of 2.6 Å using the multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) method. Data collection, model, and refinement statistics are summarized in Table I. The final model includes three