Jm. Goetz et al., Investigation of the binding of fluorolumazines to the 1-MDa capsid of lumazine synthase by N-15{F-19} REDOR NMR, J AM CHEM S, 121(33), 1999, pp. 7500-7508
The N-15{F-19} REDOR NMR spectra of two fluorolumazines complexed to the 1-
MDa beta(60) capsid of lumazine synthase have been obtained at 20.3 and 50.
7 MHz. Distances from CF3 groups of the ligands to six side- and main-chain
nitrogens have been measured. These distances were used in combination wit
h the X-ray crystal coordinates of wild-type lumazine synthase, complexed t
o a related substrate ligand, in a series of distance-restrained molecular
dynamics simulations. The result is a model of the binding site of lumazine
synthase that has sufficient detail to predict the absolute configuration
at C-7 of complexed 7-hydroxy-8-D-ribityl-6,7-bis(trifluoromethyl)-7,8-dihy
dropteridine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione, a fluorinated analogue of an unstable, hypot
hetical intermediate in the reactions catalyzed by both lumazine synthase a
nd riboflavin synthase.