Azim N, Deery E, Warren M J, Erskine P, Cooper J B, Wood S P, Akhtar M
School of Biological Sciences, University of Punjab, New Campus, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2013 Aug;69(Pt 8):906-8. doi: 10.1107/S1744309113018526. Epub 2013 Jul 27.
The enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD; hydroxymethylbilane synthase; EC 2.5.1.61) catalyses an early step of the tetrapyrrole-biosynthesis pathway in which four molecules of the monopyrrole porphobilinogen are condensed to form a linear tetrapyrrole. The enzyme possesses a dipyrromethane cofactor which is covalently linked by a thioether bridge to an invariant cysteine residue. Expression in Escherichia coli of a His-tagged form of Bacillus megaterium PBGD permitted the crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the enzyme from this species at high resolution.
胆色素原脱氨酶(PBGD;羟甲基胆色素原合酶;EC 2.5.1.61)催化四吡咯生物合成途径的早期步骤,在此步骤中,四个单吡咯胆色素原分子缩合形成线性四吡咯。该酶具有一个二吡咯甲烷辅因子,它通过硫醚桥与一个不变的半胱氨酸残基共价连接。在大肠杆菌中表达巨大芽孢杆菌PBGD的His标签形式,使得能够对该物种的酶进行高分辨率结晶和初步X射线分析。