title: Structure of Bacillus subtilis superoxide dismutase.
abstract: The sodA gene of Bacillus subtilis was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized. The crystal structure of MnSOD was solved by molecular replacement with four dimers per asymmetric unit and refined to an R factor of 21.1% at 1.8 A resolution. The dimer structure is very similar to that of the related enzyme from B. anthracis. Larger structural differences were observed with the human MnSOD, which has one less helix in the helical domain and a longer loop between two beta-strands and also showed differences in three amino acids at the intersubunit interface in the dimer compared with the two bacterial MnSODs. These structural differences can be exploited in the design of drugs that selectively target the Bacillus enzymes.
authors: Department of Biology, Molecular Basis of Disease Program, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Liu
authors: H E
authors: HE
authors: Ewis
authors: Y J
authors: YJ
authors: Huang
authors: C D
authors: CD
authors: Lu
authors: P C
authors: PC
authors: Tai
authors: I T
authors: IT
authors: Weber
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D021122:Protein Subunits / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D040681:Structural Homology, Protein; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D021122:Protein Subunits; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase