Download MendeleyCrystal structure at 1.2 A resolution and active site mapping of Escherichia coli peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase.
Schmitt, E., Mechulam, Y., Fromant, M., Plateau, P., Blanquet, S.(1997) EMBO J 16: 4760-4769
- PubMed: 9303320
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/emboj/16.15.4760
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2PTH - PubMed Abstract:
Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase activity from Escherichia coli ensures the recycling of peptidyl-tRNAs produced through abortion of translation. This activity, which is essential for cell viability, is carried out by a monomeric protein of 193 residues. The structure of crystalline peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase could be solved at 1.2 A resolution. It indicates a single alpha/beta globular domain built around a twisted mixed beta-sheet, similar to the central core of an aminopeptidase from Aeromonas proteolytica. This similarity allowed the characterization by site-directed mutagenesis of several residues of the active site of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase. These residues, strictly conserved among the known peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase sequences, delineate a channel which, in the crystal, is occupied by the C-end of a neighbouring peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase molecule. Hence, several main chain atoms of three residues belonging to one peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase polypeptide establish contacts inside the active site of another peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase molecule. Such an interaction is assumed to represent the formation of a complex between the enzyme and one product of the catalysed reaction.
Organizational Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Biochimie, Unit'e de Recherche Associ'ee No. 1970 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
