Crystal Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis YefM Antitoxin Reveals that it is Not an Intrinsically Unstructured Protein

Cartoon representation of the tetrameric antitoxin. Chain A (Green), chain B (Cyan), chain C (Magenta), chain D (yellow) and chain E (wheat colour). Chain E is probably an extended part of the D chain, which is not connected to chain D because of the missing density of a few residues.

P. Kumar et al., J. Mol. Biol. 383, 482(2008)

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Crystal structure of the YefM2-YoeB complex of E. coli was already known and suggested that YefM is unstructured in the absence of YoeB. However, we have been able to crystallize YefM of M. tuberculosis in its apoform. The structure of apo-YefM antitoxin reveals that it is not an intrinsically unstructured protein, but forms a well defined3D-structure.

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Crystal Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis YefM Antitoxin Reveals that it is Not an Intrinsically Unstructured Protein; P. Kumar, B. Issac, E.J. Dodson, J.P. Turkenburg, S.C. Mande, J. Mol. Biol. 383, 482(2008) doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.08.067
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