The active centre contains mononuclear iron(II). The enzyme is activated by phosphorylation, catalysed by a Ca2+-activated protein kinase. The 4a-hydroxytetrahydropteridine formed can dehydrate to 6,7-dihydropteridine, both spontaneously and by the action of EC 4.2.1.96, 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase. The 6,7-dihydropteridine must be enzymically reduced back to tetrahydropteridine, by EC 1.5.1.34, 6,7-dihydropteridine reductase, before it slowly rearranges into the more stable but inactive compound 7,8-dihydropteridine.
The active centre contains mononuclear iron(II). The enzyme is activated by phosphorylation, catalysed by a Ca2+-activated protein kinase. The 4a-hydroxytetrahydropteridine formed can dehydrate to 6,7-dihydropteridine, both spontaneously and by the action of EC 4.2.1.96, 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase. The 6,7-dihydropteridine must be enzymically reduced back to tetrahydropteridine, by EC 1.5.1.34, 6,7-dihydropteridine reductase, before it slowly rearranges into the more stable but inactive compound 7,8-dihydropteridine.
the iron coordination is a distorted trigonal bipyramidal coordination with His273, His278, and Glu318 (partially bidentate) and one imidazole as ligands. The tryptophan stacks against Pro269 with a distance of 3.9 A between the iron and the tryptophan Czeta3 atom that is hydroxylated
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CRYSTALLIZATION (Commentary)
ORGANISM
UNIPROT
LITERATURE
catalytic domain (DETLA1-100/DELTA415-445) of TPH1 in complex with the tryptophan substrate and an iron-bound imidazole, by vapor diffusion method with sitting drops, at 1.9 A resolution, crystallization time of 3-6 months. Loops of residues Leu124-Asp139 and Ile367-Thr369 close around the active site. The tryptophan substrate is bound close to the iron in a binding pocket distinct from the BH4 binding pocket. The hydrophobic part of the tryptophan binding pocket is lined by residues Tyr236, Thr266, Pro269, His273, Phe314, Phe319, and Ile367, while the polar interactions of the tryptophan are with Thr266, Ile367, and Ser337 and a salt bridge to Arg258. The overall structure is more compact with two loops closing around the active site, when compared to the structure of human catalytic domain of TPH1
purified enzyme without 7,8-dihydro-L-biopterin, sitting drop vapour diffusion method, 0.002 ml of 4.2 mg/ml protein in 20 mM Tris/NaOH, 100 mM (NH4)2SO4 pH 8.5, is mixed with 0.002 ml of reservoir solution containing 0.2 M imidazole malate, pH 8.5, 22.5% PEG 10000, and tetrahydrobiopterin in excess, X-ray diffraction structure determination and analysis at 3.0 A reslution
recombinant catalytic domain of chicken TPH isoform 1 from Escherichia coli strain BL21(DE3) by anion exchange chromatography and gel filtration to homogeneity, release from the fusion by in vivo cleavage by a co-expressed ubiquitin-specific, carboxy-terminal protease
high yield expression of the catalytic domain of chicken TPH isoform 1, comprising residues 1-100 and 415-445, fused to ubiquitin in Escherichia coli strain BL21(DE3)