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Deposition Date 1998-01-23
Release Date 1998-05-27
Last Version Date 2024-05-22
Entry Detail
PDB ID:
1A3S
Title:
HUMAN UBC9
Biological Source:
Source Organism:
Homo sapiens (Taxon ID: 9606)
Host Organism:
Method Details:
Experimental Method:
Resolution:
2.80 Å
R-Value Free:
0.26
R-Value Work:
0.21
R-Value Observed:
0.21
Space Group:
P 43
Macromolecular Entities
Polymer Type:polypeptide(L)
Molecule:UBC9
Gene (Uniprot):UBE2I
Chain IDs:A
Chain Length:160
Number of Molecules:1
Biological Source:Homo sapiens
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Primary Citation
Structure of ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme 9 displays significant differences with other ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes which may reflect its specificity for sumo rather than ubiquitin.
Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D 54 891 898 (1998)
PMID: 9757105 DOI: 10.1107/S0907444998002480

Abstact

The three-dimensional structure of ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme 9 (Ubc9) has been obtained to a resolution of 2.8 A by molecular replacement followed by a combination of automated refinement and graphical intervention. Diffraction data were recorded on a single crystal in space group P43 with cell dimensions a = b = 73.9, c = 42. 9 A. The final model has an R factor of 21.3% for all data to 2.8 A. Only the N-terminal methionine, a two-residue N-terminal extension and a four-residue loop are not located by the final electron-density map. Ubc9 is now known to be the first sumo, a new ubiquitin-like protein, conjugating enzyme and does not conjugate ubiquitin. The structure of Ubc9 shows important differences compared with the structures of known ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes. At the N-terminal helix, the structural and sequence alignments are out of register by one amino acid giving Ubc9 a different recognition surface compared to ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes. This is coupled to a profound change in the electrostatic surface of the molecular face remote from the catalytic site. These differences may be important in recognition of other proteins in the Sumo conjugation pathway. The catalytic cysteine in Ubc9 has a positively charged lip and a negatively charged ridge nearby. Both these features seem confined to sumo-conjugating enzymes, and a sequence alignment of sumo and ubiquitin suggests how these might play a role in sumo/ubiquitin discrimination.

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