Role of methionine 71 in substrate recognition and structural integrity of bacterial peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase.
Shahid, S., Kabra, A., Mundra, S., Pal, R.K., Tripathi, S., Jain, A., Arora, A.(2018) Biochim Biophys Acta 1866: 865-874
- PubMed: 29733913 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2018.05.002
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5ZK0 - PubMed Abstract: 
Bacterial peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase (Pth) is an essential enzyme that alleviates tRNA starvation by recycling prematurely dissociated peptidyl-tRNAs. The specificity of Pth for N-blocked-aminoacyl-tRNA has been proposed to be contingent upon conserved residue N14 forming a hydrogen bond with the carbonyl of the first peptide bond in the substrate. M71 is involved in forming a conserved hydrogen bond with N14. Other interactions facilitating this recognition are not known.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Molecular and Structural Biology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India.