Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Dihedral - D3  (3D View)
Global Stoichiometry: Homo 6-mer - A6 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 318210.91 
• Atom Count: 21605 
• Residue Count: 2796 
• Unique protein chains: 1

1PMM

Crystal structure of Escherichia coli GadB (low pH)

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb1PMM/pdb

• Classification: LYASE
• Organism(s): Escherichia coli (strain K12)
• Expression System: Escherichia coli


• Deposited: 2003-06-11 Released: 2004-02-17 
• Deposition Author(s): Capitani, G., De Biase, D., Aurizi, C., Gut, H., Bossa, F., Grutter, M.G.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.213 
• R-Value Work: 0.182 

Literature

Crystal structure and functional analysis of escherichia coli glutamate decarboxylase

Capitani, G., De Biase, D., Aurizi, C., Gut, H., Bossa, F., Grutter, M.G.

(2003) Embo J. 22: 4027-4037

• PubMed: 12912902 
• DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg403
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  1PMO
• Also Cited By: 2DGM, 2DGL, 2DGK


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Glutamate decarboxylase is a vitamin B6-dependent enzyme, which catalyses the decarboxylation of glutamate to gamma-aminobutyrate. In Escherichia coli, expression of glutamate decarboxylase (GadB), a 330 kDa hexamer, is induced to maintain the physiological pH under acidic conditions, like those of the passage through the stomach en route to the intestine. GadB, together with the antiporter GadC, constitutes the gad acid resistance system, which confers the ability for bacterial survival for at least 2 h in a strongly acidic environment. GadB undergoes a pH-dependent conformational change and exhibits an activity optimum at low pH. We determined the crystal structures of GadB at acidic and neutral pH. They reveal the molecular details of the conformational change and the structural basis for the acidic pH optimum. We demonstrate that the enzyme is localized exclusively in the cytoplasm at neutral pH, but is recruited to the membrane when the pH falls. We show by structure-based site-directed mutagenesis that the triple helix bundle formed by the N-termini of the protein at acidic pH is the major determinant for this behaviour.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Biochemisches Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich CH-8057, Switzerland. [e-mail]

Macromolecules

Find similar proteins by: Sequence  |  Structure

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Glutamate decarboxylase beta	A, B, C, D, E, F	466	Escherichia coli (strain K12)	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: gadB EC: 4.1.1.15
Find proteins for P69910 (Escherichia coli (strain K12)) Go to UniProtKB:  P69910

Small Molecules

Ligands 2 Unique
ID	Chains	Name / Formula / InChI Key	2D Diagram & Interactions
ACY	A, B, C, D, E	ACETIC ACID C2 H4 O2 QTBSBXVTEAMEQO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
PLP	A, B, C, D, E, F	PYRIDOXAL-5'-PHOSPHATE VITAMIN B6 Phosphate C8 H10 N O6 P NGVDGCNFYWLIFO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.213 
• R-Value Work: 0.182 
• Space Group: P 1

Unit Cell:

Length (Å)	Angle (°)
a = 90.780	α = 76.80
b = 91.406	β = 77.10
c = 93.686	γ = 78.24

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
SHARP	phasing
SCALEPACK	data scaling
DENZO	data reduction
CNS	refinement

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2003-06-11 
• Released Date: 2004-02-17 
• Deposition Author(s): Capitani, G., De Biase, D., Aurizi, C., Gut, H., Bossa, F., Grutter, M.G.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2004-02-17
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2008-04-29
  Type: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
  Type: Non-polymer description, Version format compliance