Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

In cellulo crystallization of Trypanosoma brucei IMP dehydrogenase enables the identification of genuine co-factors

  • Karol Nass,
  • Lars Redecke,
  • M. Perbandt,
  • O. Yefanov,
  • M. Klinge,
  • R. Koopmann,
  • F. Stellato,
  • A. Gabdulkhakov,
  • R. Schönherr,
  • D. Rehders,
  • J. M. Lahey-Rudolph,
  • A. Aquila,
  • A. Barty,
  • S. Basu,
  • R. B. Doak,
  • R. Duden,
  • M. Frank,
  • R. Fromme,
  • S. Kassemeyer,
  • G. Katona,
  • R. Kirian,
  • H. Liu,
  • I. Majoul,
  • J. M. Martin-Garcia,
  • M. Messerschmidt,
  • R. L. Shoeman,
  • U. Weierstall,
  • S. Westenhoff,
  • T. A. White,
  • G. J. Williams,
  • C. H. Yoon,
  • N. Zatsepin,
  • P. Fromme,
  • M. Duszenko,
  • H. N. Chapman,
  • C. Betzel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14484-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Trypanosoma brucei inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is an enzyme in the guanine nucleotide biosynthesis pathway and of interest as a drug target. Here the authors present the 2.8 Å room temperature structure of TbIMPDH determined by utilizing X-ray free-electron laser radiation and crystals that were grown in insect cells and find that ATP and GMP are bound at the canonical sites of the Bateman domains.