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| Author(s): |
Hamilton Barbosa Napolitano
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2004-04-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Glaucius Oliva;
Eduardo Ernesto Castellano;
Jesus Aparecido Ferro;
Beatriz Gomes Guimarães;
Flávio Henrique da Silva
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| Advisor: | Glaucius Oliva |
| Abstract | |
The sugarcane phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthase [sPRS] (EC:2.7.6.1) is an enzyme of central importance in severa1 pathways in all cells and produce the 5-phosporybosyl-1-pyrophosphate [PRPP] from the ribose-5-phosphate [R5F]. The gene of the sPRS was sequenced as part of the SUCEST project, encodes to 328 aminoacid protein with a molecular weight of 36,6 KDa. After being expressed in Escherichia coli and purified, the sPRS enzyme was crystallized and diffraction experiments were undertaken. From crystallographic methods and molecular modeling the tri-dimensional model was built. Each subunit of the sPRS homo-hexameric biological unit is symmetrically connected to the others through a 2-fold axis perpendicular to another 3-fold axis forming a 32 point symmetry. The sPRS enzyme activity assay indicates its independence of the presence of the phosphate ion. Through the comparative studies between the sPRS and the homologue from Bacillus subtillis phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase [bPRS] (phosphate dependent) we were able to identify structural similarities on the catalytic site and insightful differences on the allosteric site. These results show that structural differences in the allosteric site are consistent with functional difference observed and are an important step toward structure-activity comprehension for sPRS phosphate independent. (AU) | |