6CAZ | pdb_00006caz

Crystal structure of a peptide deformylase from Legionella pneumophila

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb6CAZ/pdb

• Classification: HYDROLASE
• Organism(s): Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila str. Philadelphia 1
• Expression System: Escherichia coli
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2018-02-01 Released: 2018-02-14 
• Deposition Author(s): Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.50 Å
• R-Value Free: 
  0.193 (Depositor), 0.195 (DCC) 
• R-Value Work: 
  0.166 (Depositor), 0.168 (DCC) 
• R-Value Observed: 
  0.167 (Depositor) 

Starting Model: experimental

Literature

Structures of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 peptide deformylase bound to nickel(II) and actinonin

Nguyen, C.L., Fan, W., Fisher, S., Matthews, K., Norman, J.O., Abendroth, J., Barrett, K.F., Craig, J.K., Edwards, T.E., Lorimer, D.D., McLaughlin, K.J.

(2025) Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun 81: 163-170

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)

Macromolecule Content 

• Total Structure Weight: 20.58 kDa 
• Atom Count: 1,688 
• Modeled Residue Count: 169 
• Deposited Residue Count: 178 
• Unique protein chains: 1

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Peptide deformylase	A	178	Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila str. Philadelphia 1	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: def, lpg2595 EC: 3.5.1.88
UniProt
Find proteins for Q5ZSC4 (Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (strain Philadelphia 1 / ATCC 33152 / DSM 7513)) Explore Q5ZSC4  Go to UniProtKB:  Q5ZSC4

Small Molecules

Ligands 3 Unique
ID	Chains	Name / Formula / InChI Key	2D Diagram
MES	B [auth A]	2-(N-MORPHOLINO)-ETHANESULFONIC ACID C6 H13 N O4 S SXGZJKUKBWWHRA-UHFFFAOYSA-N
NI	D [auth A]	NICKEL (II) ION Ni VEQPNABPJHWNSG-UHFFFAOYSA-N
CL	C [auth A]	CHLORIDE ION Cl VEXZGXHMUGYJMC-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.50 Å
• R-Value Free:  0.193 (Depositor), 0.195 (DCC) 
• R-Value Work:  0.166 (Depositor), 0.168 (DCC) 
• R-Value Observed: 0.167 (Depositor) 

Diffraction Data: https://doi.org/10.18430/M36CAZ

Space Group: P 2₁ 2₁ 2₁

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 38.21	α = 90
b = 50.9	β = 90
c = 105.33	γ = 90

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
XDS	data reduction
XSCALE	data scaling
PHASER	phasing
PHENIX	refinement
PDB_EXTRACT	data extraction

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2018-02-14 
Deposition Author(s): Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2018-02-14
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2023-10-04
  Changes: Data collection, Database references, Refinement description
• Version 1.2: 2025-04-09
  Changes: Database references, Structure summary