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  • Title: Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of membrane-associated Escherichia coli dihydroorotate dehydrogenase.
    Author: Rowland P, Nørager S, Jensen KF, Larsen S.
    Journal: Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr; 2000 May; 56(Pt 5):659-61. PubMed ID: 10771442.
    Abstract:
    Dihydroorotate dehydrogenases (DHODs) are flavin-containing enzymes which catalyse the conversion of (S)-dihydroorotate to orotate, the fourth step in the de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides. Two major families of DHODs have now been identified based on their amino-acid sequence similarities. The two families differ in their reaction mechanisms, but structures are only known of enzymes belonging to family 1. DHOD from Escherichia coli is a typical member of family 2, which contains the membrane-associated enzymes from Gram-negative bacteria and eukaryotes. Yellow crystals grown of this enzyme belong to the space group P4(1)2(1)2 or P4(3)2(1)2. The unit-cell parameters are a = b = 119.2, c = 294.3 A. Owing to the rather large c axis, the currently available resolution of data is 2.2 A.
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