Crystal structure and biochemical properties of putrescine carbamoyltransferase from Enterococcus faecalis: Assembly, active site, and allosteric regulation.

Proteins
D ShiM Tuchman

Abstract

Putrescine carbamoyltransferase (PTCase) catalyzes the conversion of carbamoylputrescine to putrescine and carbamoyl phosphate (CP), a substrate of carbamate kinase (CK). The crystal structure of PTCase has been determined and refined at 3.2 Å resolution. The trimeric molecular structure of PTCase is similar to other carbamoyltransferases, including the catalytic subunit of aspartate carbamoyltransferase (ATCase) and ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OTCase). However, in contrast to other trimeric carbamoyltransferases, PTCase binds both CP and putrescine with Hill coefficients at saturating concentrations of the other substrate of 1.53 ± 0.03 and 1.80 ± 0.06, respectively. PTCase also has a unique structural feature: a long C-terminal helix that interacts with the adjacent subunit to enhance intersubunit interactions in the molecular trimer. The C-terminal helix appears to be essential for both formation of the functional trimer and catalytic activity, since truncated PTCase without the C-terminal helix aggregates and has only 3% of native catalytic activity. The active sites of PTCase and OTCase are similar, with the exception of the 240's loop. PTCase lacks the proline-rich sequence found in knotted carbamoyltransferases and i...Continue Reading

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