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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications2018

Crystal structures and kinetics of N-acetylneuraminate lyase from Fusobacterium nucleatum.

Jay Prakash Kumar, Harshvardhan Rao, Vinod Nayak, S Ramaswamy

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jay Prakash KumarTechnologies for the Advancement of Science, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, NCBS, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka 560 065, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4488-0292
Harshvardhan RaoTechnologies for the Advancement of Science, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, NCBS, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka 560 065, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6220-2431
Vinod NayakTechnologies for the Advancement of Science, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, NCBS, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka 560 065, India.
S RamaswamyTechnologies for the Advancement of Science, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, NCBS, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka 560 065, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6709-190X
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine · INUniversity of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology · IN

Funding

Department of Biotechnology, Government of India BBT/IN/Sweden/06/SR/2017-18Department of Biotechnology, Government of India BT/INF/22/SP22660/2017Department of Biotechnology, Government of India BT/IN/Sweden/41/SR/2013Department of Biotechnology, Government of India BT/PR12422/MED/31/287/214Department of Biotechnology, Government of India BT/PR5081/INF/156/2012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

N-Acetyl-D-neuraminic acid lyase (NanA) catalyzes the breakdown of sialic acid (Neu5Ac) to N-acetyl-D-mannosamine (ManNAc) and pyruvate. NanA plays a key role in Neu5Ac catabolism in many pathogenic and bacterial commensals where sialic acid is available as a carbon and nitrogen source. Several pathogens or commensals decorate their surfaces with sialic acids as a strategy to escape host innate immunity. Catabolism of sialic acid is key to a range of host-pathogen interactions. In this study, atomic resolution structures of NanA from Fusobacterium nucleatum (FnNanA) in ligand-free and ligand-bound forms are reported at 2.32 and 1.76 Å resolution, respectively. F. nucleatum is a Gram-negative pathogen that causes gingival and periodontal diseases in human hosts. Like other bacterial N-acetylneuraminate lyases, FnNanA also shares the triosephosphate isomerase (TIM)-barrel fold. As observed in other homologous enzymes, FnNanA forms a tetramer. In order to characterize the structure-function relationship, the steady-state kinetic parameters of the enzyme are also reported.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsCrystallography, X-RayFusobacterium nucleatumHydrogen BondingModels, MolecularN-Acetylneuraminic AcidOxo-Acid-LyasesProtein ConformationProtein FoldingPyruvic AcidSchiff BasesSequence AlignmentTyrosineBacterial ProteinsN-acetylneuraminate lyaseN-Acetylneuraminic AcidOxo-Acid-LyasesPyruvic AcidSchiff BasesTyrosineenzyme kineticsFusobacterium nucleatumN-acetylneuraminate lyasesialic acid catabolism

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PMID30387778
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