1NH8

Crystal structure of ATP phosphoribosyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2003) J Biol Chem 278: 8333

• PubMed: 12511575 Search on PubMed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M212124200
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  1NH7, 1NH8


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

  The N-1-(5'-phosphoribosyl)-ATP transferase catalyzes the first step of the histidine biosynthetic pathway and is regulated by a feedback mechanism by the product histidine. The crystal structures of the N-1-(5'-phosphoribosyl)-ATP transferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in complex with inhibitor histidine and AMP has been determined to 1.8 A resolution and without ligands to 2.7 A resolution. The active enzyme exists primarily as a dimer, and the histidine-inhibited form is a hexamer. The structure represents a new fold for a phosphoribosyltransferase, consisting of three continuous domains. The inhibitor AMP binds in the active site cavity formed between the two catalytic domains. A model for the mechanism of allosteric inhibition has been derived from conformational differences between the AMP:His-bound and apo structures.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A & M University, College Station 77843-2128, USA.