title: Crystal structure of the S. cerevisiae D-ribose-5-phosphate isomerase: comparison with the archaeal and bacterial enzymes.
abstract: Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase A has an important role in sugar metabolism by interconverting ribose-5-phosphate and ribulose-5-phosphate. This enzyme is ubiquitous and highly conserved among the three kingdoms of life. We have solved the 2.1 A resolution crystal structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae enzyme by molecular replacement. This protein adopts the same fold as its archaeal and bacterial orthologs with two alpha/beta domains tightly packed together. Mapping of conserved residues at the surface of the protein reveals strong invariability of the active site pocket, suggesting a common ligand binding mode and a similar catalytic mechanism. The yeast enzyme associates as a homotetramer similarly to the archaeal protein. The effect of an inactivating mutation (Arg189 to Lys) is discussed in view of the information brought by this structure.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biochimie et de Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS-UMR 8619, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 430, 91405 Orsay, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Graille
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Leulliot
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sorel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Janin
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Van Tilbeurgh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quevillon-Cheruel
mesh_terms: D019747:Aldose-Ketose Isomerases / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001105:Archaea / Q000737:chemistry; D001419:Bacteria / Q000737:chemistry; D001665:Binding Sites; D002384:Catalysis; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012274:Ribulosephosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D012274:Ribulosephosphates; C031524:ribulose 5-phosphate; D019747:Aldose-Ketose Isomerases; C022548:ribosephosphate isomerase