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Crystal structure of the essential biotin-dependent carboxylase AccA3 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Matthew Bennett1, Martin Högbom1
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences Stockholm University Sweden.
Abstract:
Biotin-dependent acetyl-CoA carboxylases catalyze the committed step in type II fatty acid biosynthesis, the main route for production of membrane phospholipids in bacteria, and are considered a key target for antibacterial drug discovery. Here we describe the first structure of AccA3, an essential component of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb). The structure, sequence comparisons, and modeling of ligand-bound states reveal that the ATP cosubstrate-binding site shows distinct differences compared to other bacterial and eukaryotic biotin carboxylases, including all human homologs. This suggests the possibility to design MTb AccA3 subtype-specific inhibitors.
Database:
Coordinates and structure factors have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank with the accession number 5MLK.
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