Structure of the proline dehydrogenase domain of the multifunctional PutA flavoprotein.
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Lee YH, Nadaraia S, Gu D, Becker DF, Tanner JJ
Structure of the proline dehydrogenase domain of the multifunctional PutA flavoprotein.
Nat Struct Biol. 2003 Feb;10(2):109-14.
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- Abstract
The PutA flavoprotein from Escherichia coli plays multiple roles in proline catabolism by functioning as a membrane-associated bi-functional enzyme and a transcriptional repressor of proline utilization genes. The human homolog of the PutA proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) domain is critical in p53-mediated apoptosis and schizophrenia. Here we report the crystal structure of a 669-residue truncated form of PutA that shows both PRODH and DNA-binding activities, representing the first structure of a PutA protein and a PRODH enzyme from any organism. The structure is a domain-swapped dimer with each subunit comprising three domains: a helical dimerization arm, a 120-residue domain containing a three-helix bundle similar to that in the helix-turn-helix superfamily of DNA-binding proteins and a beta/alpha-barrel PRODH domain with a bound lactate inhibitor. Analysis of the structure provides insight into the mechanism of proline oxidation to pyrroline-5-carboxylate, and functional studies of a mutant protein suggest that the DNA-binding domain is located within the N-terminal 261 residues of E. coli PutA.
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Drug Target Kind Organism Pharmacological Action Actions Lactic acid Bifunctional protein PutA Protein Escherichia coli (strain K12) UnknownNot Available Details - Polypeptides
Name UniProt ID Bifunctional protein PutA P09546 Details