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Title: Structural Basis for Glycyl Radical Formation By Pyruvate Formate-Lyase Activating Enzyme

Journal Article · · Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 105:16137,2008
OSTI ID:953597

Pyruvate formate-lyase activating enzyme generates a stable and catalytically essential glycyl radical on G{sup 734} of pyruvate formate-lyase via the direct, stereospecific abstraction of a hydrogen atom from pyruvate formate-lyase. The activase performs this remarkable feat by using an iron-sulfur cluster and S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet), thus placing it among the AdoMet radical superfamily of enzymes. We report here structures of the substrate-free and substrate-bound forms of pyruvate formate-lyase-activating enzyme, the first structures of an AdoMet radical activase. To obtain the substrate-bound structure, we have used a peptide substrate, the 7-mer RVSGYAV, which contains the sequence surrounding G{sup 734}. Our structures provide fundamental insights into the interactions between the activase and the G{sup 734} loop of pyruvate formate-lyase and provide a structural basis for direct and stereospecific H atom abstraction from the buried G{sup 734}4 of pyruvate formate-lyase.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
953597
Report Number(s):
SLAC-REPRINT-2009-286; PNASA6; TRN: US201002%%1425
Journal Information:
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 105:16137,2008, Vol. 105, Issue 42; ISSN 0027-8424
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English