Insights into the stereochemical mechanism of the B(12)-dependent radical SAM glutamine C- methyltransferase (QCMT).

Bourdin T, Guillot A, Mauger M, Lefranc B, Gervason S, Glousieau M, Grimaldi S, Leprince J, Thureau A, Benjdia A, Berteau O, Commun Biol (2026) Europe PMC

SASDVY7 – Glutamine C‐methyltransferase without cobalamin from Methanoculleus thermophilus

B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family
MWexperimental 50 kDa
MWexpected 50 kDa
VPorod 85 nm3
log I(s) 2.20×10-2 2.20×10-3 2.20×10-4 2.20×10-5
B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family Guinier plot ln 2.20×10-2 Rg: 2.6 nm 0 (2.6 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family pair distance distribution function Rg: 2.7 nm 0 Dmax: 10.4 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family ALPHAFOLD model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of glutamine C‐methyltransferase without cobalamin in 50 mM Tris, 300 mM NaCl, 5% glycerol, pH 8 were collected on the SWING beam line at SOLEIL (Saint-Aubin, France) using a Eiger 4M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.1033 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 50.00 μl sample at 5 mg/ml was injected at a 0.25 ml/min flow rate onto a Cytiva Superdex 200 5/150 column at 20°C. 646 successive 0.990 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

B12-binding domain/radical SAM domain protein, MJ_0865 family (QCMTMe)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Methanoculleus thermophilus
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   50.0 kDa
 
UniProt   WP_0669576 (1-435)
Sequence   FASTA