4IWN

Crystal structure of a putative methyltransferase CmoA in complex with a novel SAM derivative


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.73 Å
  • R-Value Free: 
    0.231 (Depositor), 0.240 (DCC) 
  • R-Value Work: 
    0.196 (Depositor), 0.200 (DCC) 
  • R-Value Observed: 
    0.198 (Depositor) 

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Literature

S-Adenosyl-S-carboxymethyl-L-homocysteine: a novel cofactor found in the putative tRNA-modifying enzyme CmoA.

Byrne, R.T.Whelan, F.Aller, P.Bird, L.E.Dowle, A.Lobley, C.M.Reddivari, Y.Nettleship, J.E.Owens, R.J.Antson, A.A.Waterman, D.G.

(2013) Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 69: 1090-1098

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S0907444913004939
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    4IWN

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    Uridine at position 34 of bacterial transfer RNAs is commonly modified to uridine-5-oxyacetic acid (cmo(5)U) to increase the decoding capacity. The protein CmoA is involved in the formation of cmo(5)U and was annotated as an S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent (SAM-dependent) methyltransferase on the basis of its sequence homology to other SAM-containing enzymes. However, both the crystal structure of Escherichia coli CmoA at 1.73 Å resolution and mass spectrometry demonstrate that it contains a novel cofactor, S-adenosyl-S-carboxymethyl-L-homocysteine (SCM-SAH), in which the donor methyl group is substituted by a carboxymethyl group. The carboxyl moiety forms a salt-bridge interaction with Arg199 that is conserved in a large group of CmoA-related proteins but is not conserved in other SAM-containing enzymes. This raises the possibility that a number of enzymes that have previously been annotated as SAM-dependent are in fact SCM-SAH-dependent. Indeed, inspection of electron density for one such enzyme with known X-ray structure, PDB entry 1im8, suggests that the active site contains SCM-SAH and not SAM.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington YO10 5DD, England.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
tRNA (cmo5U34)-methyltransferase
A, B
229Escherichia coliMutation(s): 0 
Gene Names: cmoAyecOb1870JW1859
EC: 2.1.1 (PDB Primary Data), 2.1.3 (UniProt)
UniProt
Find proteins for P76290 (Escherichia coli (strain K12))
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Go to UniProtKB:  P76290
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UniProt GroupP76290
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Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.73 Å
  • R-Value Free:  0.231 (Depositor), 0.240 (DCC) 
  • R-Value Work:  0.196 (Depositor), 0.200 (DCC) 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.198 (Depositor) 
Space Group: P 21 21 2
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 77.12α = 90
b = 91.38β = 90
c = 70.64γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
SCALAdata scaling
REFMACrefinement
PDB_EXTRACTdata extraction
GDAdata collection
XSCALEdata scaling
MrBUMPphasing

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Entry History 

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Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2013-05-29
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2013-06-05
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.2: 2013-06-19
    Changes: Non-polymer description
  • Version 1.3: 2023-09-20
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations, Refinement description, Structure summary