Crystal structure of the xanthine oxidase-related aldehyde oxido-reductase from D. gigas

Science. 1995 Nov 17;270(5239):1170-6. doi: 10.1126/science.270.5239.1170.

Abstract

The crystal structure of the aldehyde oxido-reductase (Mop) from the sulfate reducing anaerobic Gram-negative bacterium Desulfovibrio gigas has been determined at 2.25 A resolution by multiple isomorphous replacement and refined. The protein, a homodimer of 907 amino acid residues subunits, is a member of the xanthine oxidase family. The protein contains a molybdopterin cofactor (Mo-co) and two different [2Fe-2S] centers. It is folded into four domains of which the first two bind the iron sulfur centers and the last two are involved in Mo-co binding. Mo-co is a molybdenum molybdopterin cytosine dinucleotide. Molybdopterin forms a tricyclic system with the pterin bicycle annealed to a pyran ring. The molybdopterin dinucleotide is deeply buried in the protein. The cis-dithiolene group of the pyran ring binds the molybdenum, which is coordinated by three more (oxygen) ligands.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aldehyde Oxidoreductases / chemistry*
  • Aldehyde Oxidoreductases / metabolism
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Coenzymes / chemistry
  • Coenzymes / metabolism
  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Cytosine Nucleotides / chemistry
  • Cytosine Nucleotides / metabolism
  • Desulfovibrio / enzymology*
  • Drosophila melanogaster / enzymology
  • Electron Transport
  • Hydrogen Bonding
  • Iron / chemistry
  • Ligands
  • Metalloproteins / chemistry
  • Metalloproteins / metabolism
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Molybdenum / chemistry
  • Molybdenum / metabolism
  • Molybdenum Cofactors
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Folding
  • Protein Structure, Secondary
  • Pteridines / chemistry
  • Pteridines / metabolism
  • Pterins / chemistry
  • Pterins / metabolism
  • Xanthine
  • Xanthine Oxidase / chemistry*
  • Xanthines / metabolism

Substances

  • Coenzymes
  • Cytosine Nucleotides
  • Ligands
  • Metalloproteins
  • Molybdenum Cofactors
  • Pteridines
  • Pterins
  • Xanthines
  • molybdopterin cytosine dinucleotide
  • Xanthine
  • Molybdenum
  • molybdenum cofactor
  • Iron
  • Xanthine Oxidase
  • Aldehyde Oxidoreductases