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2-(3-amino-3-carboxypropyl)histidine synthase complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Essential for the first step of biosynthesis of diphthamide, a unique post-translationally modified histidine residue on EEF2 (P32324), a GTPase that is essential in the elongation step of translation. The complex catalyzes the addition of an aminocarboxypropyl (ACP) group to a specific histidine residue in EEF2 using S-adenosylmethionine as a substrate. A small iron-containing protein DPH3 (Q3E840) donates one Fe atom to convert the [3Fe-4S] cluster in DPH1-DPH2 to a functional [4Fe-4S] cluster during the radical-SAM enzyme catalytic cycle. the [4Fe-4S]2+ cluster in DPH1-DPH2 is reduced to [4Fe-4S]+ using dithionite as the reductant. The [4Fe-4S]+ cluster donates two electrons to SAM, cleaving it, forming an organometallic complex and releasing methylthioadenosine.The organometallic intermediate serves as a stabilized ACP radical and reacts with EEF2 to form an intermediate which is converted to the ACP-modified EEF2 product after loss of a hydrogen atom
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

transferase activity, transferase activity, transferring alkyl or aryl (other than methyl) groups, peptidyl-amino acid modification, cytoplasm