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Arylamine N-acetyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TBNAT) plays an important role in the intracellular survival of the microorganism inside macrophages. Medicinal chemistry efforts to optimize inhibitors of the TBNAT enzyme have been hampered by the lack of a three-dimensional structure of the enzyme. In this paper, the first structure of TBNAT, determined using a lone crystal produced using cross-seeding with the homologous protein from M. marinum, is reported. Despite the similarity between the two enzymes (74% sequence identity), they show distinct physical and biochemical characteristics. The structure elegantly reveals the characteristic features of the protein surface as well as details of the active site of TBNAT relevant to drug-discovery efforts. The crystallographic analysis of the diffraction data presented many challenges, since the crystal was twinned and the habit possessed pseudo-translational symmetry.

Original publication

DOI

10.1107/S0907444913015126

Type

Journal article

Journal

Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr

Publication Date

08/2013

Volume

69

Pages

1433 - 1446

Keywords

arylamine N-acetyltransferase, cholesterol catabolism, cross-seeding, crystal microseeding, drug targets, microseed matrix screen, pseudo-translational symmetry, tuberculosis, twinning, Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase, Bacterial Proteins, Catalytic Domain, Crystallization, Crystallography, X-Ray, Enzyme Stability, Models, Molecular, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Protein Conformation, Scattering, Small Angle, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid