| Literature DB >> 21241708 |
Katarzyna Banaszak1, Ingrid Mechin, Galina Obmolova, Michael Oldham, Simon H Chang, Teresa Ruiz, Michael Radermacher, Gerhard Kopperschläger, Wojciech Rypniewski.
Abstract
Phosphofructokinase 1 (PFK) is a multisubunit allosteric enzyme that catalyzes the principal regulatory step in glycolysis-the phosphorylation of fructose 6-phosphate to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate by ATP. The activity of eukaryotic PFK is modulated by a number of effectors in response to the cell's needs for energy and building blocks for biosynthesis. The crystal structures of eukaryotic PFKs-from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and rabbit skeletal muscle-demonstrate how successive gene duplications and fusion are reflected in the protein structure and how they allowed the evolution of new functionalities. The basic framework inherited from prokaryotes is conserved, and additional levels of structural and functional complexity have evolved around it. Analysis of protein-ligand complexes has shown how PFK is activated by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate (a powerful PFK effector found only in eukaryotes) and reveals a novel nucleotide binding site. Crystallographic results have been used as the basis for structure-based effector design.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21241708 DOI： 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.01.019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Mol Biol ISSN： 0022-2836 Impact factor: 5.469