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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-1-19
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The polyamines spermidine and spermine are ubiquitous and required for cell growth and differentiation in eukaryotes. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC, EC 4.1.1.17) performs the first step in polyamine biosynthesis, the decarboxylation of ornithine to putrescine. Elevated polyamine levels can lead to down-regulation of ODC activity by enhancing the translation of antizyme mRNA, resulting in subsequent binding of antizyme to ODC monomers which targets ODC for proteolysis by the 26S proteasome. The crystal structure of ornithine decarboxylase from human liver has been determined to 2.1 A resolution by molecular replacement using truncated mouse ODC (Delta425-461) as the search model and refined to a crystallographic R-factor of 21.2% and an R-free value of 28.8%. The human ODC model includes several regions that are disordered in the mouse ODC crystal structure, including one of two C-terminal basal degradation elements that have been demonstrated to independently collaborate with antizyme binding to target ODC for degradation by the 26S proteasome. The crystal structure of human ODC suggests that the C terminus, which contains basal degradation elements necessary for antizyme-induced proteolysis, is not buried by the structural core of homodimeric ODC as previously proposed. Analysis of the solvent-accessible surface area, surface electrostatic potential, and the conservation of primary sequence between human ODC and Trypanosoma brucei ODC provides clues to the identity of potential protein-binding-determinants in the putative antizyme binding element in human ODC.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0022-2836
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
295
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Dimerization, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Ornithine Decarboxylase, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Polyamines, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Solvents, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Static Electricity, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:10623504-Trypanosoma brucei brucei
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Crystal structure of human ornithine decarboxylase at 2.1 A resolution: structural insights to antizyme binding.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't