Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 30017.45 
• Atom Count: 1983 
• Residue Count: 274 
• Unique protein chains: 1

1IPA

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF RNA 2'-O RIBOSE METHYLTRANSFERASE

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb1IPA/pdb

• Classification: TRANSFERASE
• Organism(s): Thermus thermophilus
• Expression System: Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)


• Deposited: 2001-05-02 Released: 2002-07-10 
• Deposition Author(s): Nureki, O., Shirouzu, M., Hashimoto, K., Ishitani, R., Terada, T., Tamakoshi, M., Oshima, T., Chijimatsu, M., Takio, K., Vassylyev, D.G., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S., RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative (RSGI)

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.4 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.286 
• R-Value Work: 0.226 

Literature

An enzyme with a deep trefoil knot for the active-site architecture.

Nureki, O., Shirouzu, M., Hashimoto, K., Ishitani, R., Terada, T., Tamakoshi, M., Oshima, T., Chijimatsu, M., Takio, K., Vassylyev, D.G., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S.

(2002) Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D 58: 1129-1137

• PubMed: 12077432 


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Knots in polypeptide chains have been found in very few proteins. Only two proteins are considered to have a shallow 'trefoil' knot, which tucks a few residues at one end of the chain through a loop exposed on the protein surface. Recently, another protein was found by a mathematical algorithm to have a deep 'figure-of-eight' knot which had not been visually identified. In the present study, the crystal structure of a hypothetical RNA 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus (RrmA) was determined at 2.4 A resolution and a deep trefoil knot was found for the first time. The present knot is formed by the threading of a 44-residue polypeptide chain through a 41-residue loop and is better defined than the previously reported knots. Two of the three catalytic residues conserved in the 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase family are located in the knotting loop and in the knotted carboxy-terminal chain, which is the first observation that the enzyme active site is constructed right on the knot. On the other hand, the amino-terminal domain exhibits a geometrical similarity to the ribosomal proteins which recognize an internal loop of RNA.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.

Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
RNA 2'-O-RIBOSE METHYLTRANSFERASE	A	274	Thermus thermophilus	Mutation(s): 0
Find proteins for Q7SID4 (Thermus thermophilus) Go to UniProtKB:  Q7SID4

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.4 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.286 
• R-Value Work: 0.226 
• Space Group: P 4₃ 2₁ 2

Unit Cell:

Length (Å)	Angle (°)
a = 66.729	α = 90.00
b = 66.729	β = 90.00
c = 125.684	γ = 90.00

Software Package:

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

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2001-05-02 
• Released Date: 2002-07-10 
• Deposition Author(s): Nureki, O., Shirouzu, M., Hashimoto, K., Ishitani, R., Terada, T., Tamakoshi, M., Oshima, T., Chijimatsu, M., Takio, K., Vassylyev, D.G., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S., RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative (RSGI)

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2002-07-10
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2008-04-27
  Type: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
  Type: Version format compliance