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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography2011

Structures of human thymidylate synthase R163K with dUMP, FdUMP and glutathione show asymmetric ligand binding.

Lydia M Gibson, Lesa R Celeste, Leslie L Lovelace, Lukasz Lebioda

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Crystal structure of the active form of native human thymidylate synthase in the absence of bound substrates.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2017
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lydia M GibsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 29208, USA.
Lesa R Celeste
Leslie L Lovelace
Lukasz Lebioda
University of South Carolina · US

Funding

Thymidylate Synthases: Modes of Catalysis and InhibitionR01CA076560 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI LEBIODA, LUKASZ · 1998 to 2009
$955k
NCI NIH HHS CA 76560NCI NIH HHS R01 CA076560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thymidylate synthase (TS) is a well validated target in cancer chemotherapy. Here, a new crystal form of the R163K variant of human TS (hTS) with five subunits per asymmetric part of the unit cell, all with loop 181-197 in the active conformation, is reported. This form allows binding studies by soaking crystals in artificial mother liquors containing ligands that bind in the active site. Using this approach, crystal structures of hTS complexes with FdUMP and dUMP were obtained, indicating that this form should facilitate high-throughput analysis of hTS complexes with drug candidates. Crystal soaking experiments using oxidized glutathione revealed that hTS binds this ligand. Interestingly, the two types of binding observed are both asymmetric. In one subunit of the physiological dimer covalent modification of the catalytic nucleophile Cys195 takes place, while in another dimer a noncovalent adduct with reduced glutathione is formed in one of the active sites.

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MutationCrystallography, X-RayDeoxyuracil NucleotidesFluorodeoxyuridylateGlutathioneHumansLigandsModels, MolecularProtein Structure, QuaternaryProtein Structure, TertiarySubstrate SpecificityThymidylate SynthaseDeoxyuracil NucleotidesFluorodeoxyuridylateGlutathioneLigandsThymidylate Synthase

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PMID21206062
PMCPMC3016017
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