title: Tertiary structure of histidine-containing protein of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system of Escherichia coli.
abstract: The tertiary structure of the histidine-containing phosphocarrier protein (HPr) of the Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system has been determined by x-ray diffraction at 2.8-A resolution. Initially, a partial structure was fitted to the multiple isomorphous replacement map and then least-squares refined by the Konnert/Hendrickson restrained parameter method (Konnert, J. H., and Hendrickson, W. A. (1980) Acta Crystallogr. A36, 344-350) and finally, a subsequent map was computed by use of the phase combination method of Read (Read, R. J. (1986) Acta Crystallogr. A42, 140-149). More of the protein structure was located in the latter map. The procedure of model building, least-squares refinement, and electron density map recalculation was repeated until the tertiary structure of HPr was obtained. The overall structure of HPr consists of four beta-strands, three helical regions, and four beta-turns. At the active center, the His15 imidazole interacts with one oxygen atom of the alpha-carboxyl C terminus of the polypeptide chain; the conserved Arg17 side chain interacts with the other oxygen atom of the alpha-carboxyl C terminus as well as with the side chain of Glu85. This is the first x-ray analysis of a protein of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system. Furthermore, this work represents a protein structure which has been solved by starting with a model that represented only one-third of the scattering matter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: el-Kabbani
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Waygood
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Delbaere
mesh_terms: D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D006639:Histidine; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010731:Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System; D011487:Protein Conformation; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D006639:Histidine; D010731:Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System