Crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv0760c at 1.50 A resolution, a structural homolog of Delta(5)-3-ketosteroid isomerase

Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov;1784(11):1625-32. doi: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.05.012. Epub 2008 Jun 6.

Abstract

We have determined the X-ray crystal structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) gene product encoded by the open reading frame Rv0760c at 1.50 A resolution by single-wavelength anomalous dispersion (SAD) phasing of diffraction data from crystals of the selenomethionine-substituted protein. Refinement against diffraction data from the native protein resulted in R(work)=19.5% and R(free)=21.4%. The X-ray crystal structure shows that the homodimeric Rv0760c polypeptide has an alpha + beta conical barrel fold placing it among many structural neighbors of the nuclear transport factor 2 family (NTF2). This family is highly conserved in terms of structure; however the substrates and individual protein functions are diverse. The structures of native Rv0760c in several different crystal forms and Rv0760c bound to 17beta-estradiol 17-hemisuccinate (EH) have also been solved and analyzed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bacterial Proteins / chemistry
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Estradiol / analogs & derivatives
  • Estradiol / chemistry
  • Estradiol / metabolism
  • Models, Biological
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / chemistry
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / enzymology*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Steroid Isomerases / chemistry*
  • Steroid Isomerases / genetics
  • Steroid Isomerases / metabolism

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Estradiol
  • 17 beta-estradiol hemisuccinate
  • Steroid Isomerases
  • steroid delta-isomerase

Associated data

  • PDB/2A15
  • PDB/2Z76
  • PDB/2Z77
  • PDB/2Z7A