Experiment: 38XX

Crystal structure of a Formate acetyltransferase (PFL) from Megasphaera lornae with an acetylated active site cysteine

X-RAY DIFFRACTION

Starting Model(s)

Initial Refinement Model(s)
Type	Source	Accession Code	Details
in silico model	AlphaFold	AF-D3LWI4-F1

Crystallization

Crystalization Experiments
ID	Method	pH	Temperature	Details
1	VAPOR DIFFUSION, SITTING DROP	6.5	291	Morpheus C4: 12.5%(v/v) MPD, 12.5%(v/v) PEG 1000, 12.5%(w/v) PEG 3350, 100 mM Imidazole/MES, pH 6.5, 30 mM NaNO3, 30 mM Na2HPO4 and 30 mM (NH4)2SO4, MeloA.20507.a.A1.PW39574 at 27.7 mg/mL. plate 21260 C4 drop 1, Cocrystallization with pyruvate but was not bound. Active site Cys 413 was aceylated, Puck: PSL-0606, Cryo: direct

Crystal Properties
Matthews coefficient	Solvent content
2.69	54.31

Crystal Data

Unit Cell
Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 119.436	α = 90
b = 218.373	β = 90
c = 145.229	γ = 90

Symmetry
Space Group	C 2 2 21

Diffraction

Diffraction Experiment
ID #	Crystal ID	Scattering Type	Data Collection Temperature	Detector	Detector Type	Details	Collection Date	Monochromator	Protocol
1	1	x-ray	100	PIXEL	DECTRIS EIGER2 XE 9M		2026-07-26	M	SINGLE WAVELENGTH

Radiation Source
ID #	Source	Type	Wavelength List	Synchrotron Site	Beamline
1	SYNCHROTRON	NSLS-II BEAMLINE 19-ID	0.9786	NSLS-II	19-ID

Data Collection

Overall
ID #	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Percent Possible (Observed)	R Merge I (Observed)	Rrim I (All)	Rpim I (All)	CC (Half)	Net I Over Average Sigma (I)	Redundancy	Number Reflections (All)	Number Reflections (Observed)	Observed Criterion Sigma (F)	Observed Criterion Sigma (I)	B (Isotropic) From Wilson Plot
1	1.86	49.28	100	0.106	0.11	0.03	0.999	16.8	13.6		158281

Highest Resolution Shell
ID #	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Percent Possible (All)	Percent Possible (Observed)	R Merge I (Observed)	Rrim I (All)	Rpim I (All)	CC (Half)	Mean I Over Sigma (Observed)	Redundancy	Number Unique Reflections (All)
1	1.86	1.91		99.9	1.478	1.541	0.432	0.846		12.6

Refinement

Statistics
Diffraction ID	Structure Solution Method	Cross Validation method	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Cut-off Sigma (F)	Number Reflections (Observed)	Number Reflections (R-Free)	Percent Reflections (Observed)	R-Factor (Observed)	R-Work (Depositor)	R-Work (DCC)	R-Free (Depositor)	R-Free (DCC)	Mean Isotropic B
X-RAY DIFFRACTION	MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT	FREE R-VALUE	1.86	49.28	1.34	158058	7837	99.84	0.158	0.1569	0.1652	0.1787	0.186

Temperature Factor Modeling
Anisotropic B[1][1]	Anisotropic B[1][2]	Anisotropic B[1][3]	Anisotropic B[2][2]	Anisotropic B[2][3]	Anisotropic B[3][3]

RMS Deviations
Key	Refinement Restraint Deviation
f_dihedral_angle_d	14.083
f_angle_d	0.844
f_chiral_restr	0.049
f_plane_restr	0.008
f_bond_d	0.007

Non-Hydrogen Atoms Used in Refinement
Non-Hydrogen Atoms	Number
Protein Atoms	12052
Nucleic Acid Atoms
Solvent Atoms	980
Heterogen Atoms	107

Software

Software
Software Name	Purpose
PHENIX	refinement
Aimless	data scaling
XDS	data reduction
PHASER	phasing
PDB_EXTRACT	data extraction