Publication Date:
2011-04-30
Description:
The radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) enzymes RlmN and Cfr methylate 23S ribosomal RNA, modifying the C2 or C8 position of adenosine 2503. The methyl groups are installed by a two-step sequence involving initial methylation of a conserved Cys residue (RlmN Cys(355)) by SAM. Methyl transfer to the substrate requires reductive cleavage of a second equivalent of SAM. Crystal structures of RlmN and RlmN with SAM show that a single molecule of SAM coordinates the [4Fe-4S] cluster. Residue Cys(355) is S-methylated and located proximal to the SAM methyl group, suggesting the SAM that is involved in the initial methyl transfer binds at the same site. Thus, RlmN accomplishes its complex reaction with structural economy, harnessing the two most important reactivities of SAM within a single site.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506250/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506250/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Boal, Amie K -- Grove, Tyler L -- McLaughlin, Monica I -- Yennawar, Neela H -- Booker, Squire J -- Rosenzweig, Amy C -- GM58518/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM63847/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K99 GM100011/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM058518/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM063847/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Y1-CO-1020/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Y1-GM-1104/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 May 27;332(6033):1089-92. doi: 10.1126/science.1205358. Epub 2011 Apr 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21527678" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Catalytic Domain
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Cysteine/chemistry
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Escherichia coli/enzymology/growth & development
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Escherichia coli Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Evolution, Molecular
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Methylation
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Methyltransferases/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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RNA, Bacterial/metabolism
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RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/metabolism
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S-Adenosylmethionine/*chemistry/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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