PMID:14500880

Citation	Osborne, MJ, Venkitakrishnan, RP, Dyson, HJ and Wright, PE (2003) Diagnostic chemical shift markers for loop conformation and substrate and cofactor binding in dihydrofolate reductase complexes. Protein Sci. 12:2230-8
Abstract	Heteronuclear NMR methods have been used to probe the conformation of four complexes of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) in solution. (1)H(N), (15)N, and (13)C(alpha) resonance assignments have been made for the ternary complex with folate and oxidized NADP(+) cofactor and the ternary complex with folate and a reduced cofactor analog, 5,6-dihydroNADPH. The backbone chemical shifts have been compared with those of the binary complex of DHFR with the substrate analog folate and the binary complex with NADPH (the holoenzyme). Analysis of (1)H(N) and (15)N chemical shifts has led to the identification of marker resonances that report on the active site conformation of the enzyme. Other backbone amide resonances report on the presence of ligands in the pterin binding pocket and in the adenosine and nicotinamide-ribose binding sites of the NADPH cofactor. The chemical shift data indicate that the enzyme populates two dominant structural states in solution, with the active site loops in either the closed or occluded conformations defined by X-ray crystallography; there is no evidence that the open conformation observed in some X-ray structures of E. coli DHFR are populated in solution.
Links	PubMed PMC2366930 Online version:10.1110/ps.03219603
Keywords	Binding Sites; Carbon Isotopes/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Folic Acid/chemistry; Hydrogen/chemistry; Models, Molecular; NADP/chemistry; Nitrogen Isotopes/chemistry; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; Protein Binding; Protein Conformation; Protein Structure, Secondary; Substrate Specificity; Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase/chemistry
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