9NSR | pdb_00009nsr

Crystal structure of bifunctional farnesyl/geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase (FPPS/GGPPS) from Plasmodium falciparum in complex with MMV019313

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb9NSR/pdb

• Classification: TRANSFERASE
• Organism(s): Plasmodium falciparum 3D7
• Expression System: Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2025-03-17 Released: 2025-03-26 
• Deposition Author(s): Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease, Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)
• Funding Organization(s): National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID), National Institutes of Health/Office of the Director

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 3.25 Å
• R-Value Free: 
  0.295 (Depositor), 0.293 (DCC) 
• R-Value Work: 
  0.251 (Depositor), 0.252 (DCC) 
• R-Value Observed: 
  0.253 (Depositor) 

Starting Model: experimental

Literature

Crystal structure of bifunctional farnesyl/geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase (FPPS/GGPPS) from Plasmodium falciparum in complex with MMV019313

Lovell, S., Cooper, A., Liu, L., Battaile, K.P.

To be published.

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Cyclic - C2  (Explore in 3D)
Global Stoichiometry: Homo 2-mer - A2 

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

Biological Assembly Evidence: gel filtration

Macromolecule Content 

• Total Structure Weight: 45.07 kDa 
• Atom Count: 2,825 
• Modeled Residue Count: 333 
• Deposited Residue Count: 378 
• Unique protein chains: 1

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Bifunctional farnesyl/geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase	A	378	Plasmodium falciparum 3D7	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: PF3D7_1128400 EC: 2.5.1.29
UniProt
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Small Molecules

Ligands 1 Unique
ID	Chains	Name / Formula / InChI Key	2D Diagram
A1B0W	B [auth A]	N-[3-(azepan-1-yl)propyl]-5-methyl-4-oxo-4,5-dihydrothieno[3,2-c]quinoline-2-carboxamide C22 H27 N3 O2 S NVFMMXVDSJFVNO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 3.25 Å
• R-Value Free:  0.295 (Depositor), 0.293 (DCC) 
• R-Value Work:  0.251 (Depositor), 0.252 (DCC) 
• R-Value Observed: 0.253 (Depositor) 

Diffraction Data: https://doi.org/10.18430/M39NSR

Space Group: P 4₂ 2₁ 2

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 70.689	α = 90
b = 70.689	β = 90
c = 203.818	γ = 90

Software Package:

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

Structure Validation

Entry History 

& Funding Information

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2025-03-26 
Deposition Author(s): Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease, Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)

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Funding Organization	Location	Grant Number
National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)	United States	75N93022C00036
National Institutes of Health/Office of the Director	United States	S10OD030394

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2025-03-26
  Type: Initial release