General Information

Database accession: MF7000636

Name: Selenomethionine substituted chalcone o-methyltransferase

PDB ID: 1fpq PDBe

Experimental method: X-ray (2.00 Å)

Assembly: Homodimer

Source organism: Medicago sativa

Primary publication of the structure:

Zubieta C, He XZ, Dixon RA, Noel JP
Structures of two natural product methyltransferases reveal the basis for substrate specificity in plant O-methyltransferases.

(2001) Nat. Struct. Biol. 8: 271-9

PMID: 11224575 PubMed

Abstract:

Chalcone O-methyltransferase (ChOMT) and isoflavone O-methyltransferase (IOMT) are S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) dependent plant natural product methyltransferases involved in secondary metabolism in Medicago sativa (alfalfa). Here we report the crystal structure of ChOMT in complex with the product S-adenosyl-l-homocysteine and the substrate isoliquiritigenin (4,2',4'-trihydroxychalcone) refined to 1.8 A as well as the crystal structure of IOMT in complex with the products S-adenosyl-l-homocysteine and isoformononetin (4'-hydroxy-7-methoxyisoflavone) refined to 1.4 A. These two OMTs constitute the first plant methyltransferases to be structurally characterized and reveal a novel oligomerization domain and the molecular determinants for substrate selection. As such, this work provides a structural basis for understanding the substrate specificity of the diverse family of plant OMTs and facilitates the engineering of novel activities in this extensive class of natural product biosynthetic enzymes.


Function and Biology Annotations from the GeneOntology database. Only terms that fit at least two of the interacting proteins are shown.

Molecular function:

isoliquiritigenin 2'-O-methyltransferase activity isoliquiritigenin 2'-O-methyltransferase activity GeneOntology

licodione 2'-O-methyltransferase activity licodione 2'-O-methyltransferase activity GeneOntology

protein dimerization activity protein dimerization activity GeneOntology

Biological process:

aromatic compound biosynthetic process obsolete aromatic compound biosynthetic process GeneOntology

methylation methylation GeneOntology

Cellular component: not assigned

Structure Summary Structural annotations of the participating protein chains.

Entry contents: 2 distinct polypeptide molecules

Chains: A, A-2

Notes: All chains according to the most probable oligomerization state stored in PDBe were considered.

Number of unique protein segments: 1


Chain A

Name: Isoliquiritigenin 2'-O-methyltransferase

Source organism: Medicago sativa

Length: 372 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to the corresponding UniProt protein segmentMGNSYITKEDNQISATSEQTEDSACLSAMVLTTNLVYPAVLNAAIDLNLFEIIAKATPPGAFMSPSEIASKLPASTQHSDLPNRLDRMLRLLASYSVLTSTTRTIEDGGAERVYGLSMVGKYLVPDESRGYLASFTTFLCYPALLQVWMNFKEAVVDEDIDLFKNVHGVTKYEFMGKDKKMNQIFNKSMVDVCATEMKRMLEIYTGFEGISTLVDVGGGSGRNLELIISKYPLIKGINFDLPQVIENAPPLSGIEHVGGDMFASVPQGDAMILKAVCHNWSDEKCIEFLSNCHKALSPNGKVIIVEFILPEEPNTSEESKLVSTLDNLMFITVGGRERTEKQYEKLSKLSGFSKFQVACRAFNSLGVMEFYK

UniProtKB AC: P93324 (positions: 20-372) UniProt

Coverage: 94%

Chain A-2

Name: Isoliquiritigenin 2'-O-methyltransferase

Source organism: Medicago sativa

Length: 372 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to the corresponding UniProt protein segmentMGNSYITKEDNQISATSEQTEDSACLSAMVLTTNLVYPAVLNAAIDLNLFEIIAKATPPGAFMSPSEIASKLPASTQHSDLPNRLDRMLRLLASYSVLTSTTRTIEDGGAERVYGLSMVGKYLVPDESRGYLASFTTFLCYPALLQVWMNFKEAVVDEDIDLFKNVHGVTKYEFMGKDKKMNQIFNKSMVDVCATEMKRMLEIYTGFEGISTLVDVGGGSGRNLELIISKYPLIKGINFDLPQVIENAPPLSGIEHVGGDMFASVPQGDAMILKAVCHNWSDEKCIEFLSNCHKALSPNGKVIIVEFILPEEPNTSEESKLVSTLDNLMFITVGGRERTEKQYEKLSKLSGFSKFQVACRAFNSLGVMEFYK

UniProtKB AC: P93324 (positions: 20-372) UniProt

Coverage: 94%

Evidence Evidence demonstrating that the participating proteins are unstructured prior to the interaction and their folding is coupled to binding.

Representative domain in related structures: Dimeric O-methyltransferase

Evidence level: Indirect evidence

Evidence coverage: Only some parts of the structure participates in mutual synergistic folding.

Complex Evidence:

Coniferyl alcohol 9-O-methyltransferase has an intertwined dimeric structure with large relative interaction surface. The active site is formed by both monomers and thus dimerization is critical for activity. The N-terminal helices form the dimerization subdomain and at the same time form the rear wall of the active-site cavity in the neighbouring monomer (PMID:23633600). Other 9-O-methyltransferase structures show similar features and exhibit no monomeric form in solution (PMID:11224575).

Chain A:

N/A

Chain A-2:

N/A

Surface and contacts features:

Related Structure(s) Structures from the PDB that contain the same number of proteins, and the proteins from the two structures show a sufficient degree of pairwise similarity, i.e. they belong to the same UniRef90 cluster (the full proteins exhibit at least 90% sequence identity) and convey roughly the same region to their respective interactions (the two regions from the two proteins share a minimum of 70% overlap).

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