9YS2 | pdb_00009ys2

Crystal structure of Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase (CysRS) from Plasmodium falciparum in complex with cysteinyl-AMP

X-RAY DIFFRACTION

Starting Model(s)

Initial Refinement Model(s)
Type	Source	Accession Code	Details
in silico model	AlphaFold	AF-Q8IJP3-F1

Crystallization

Crystalization Experiments
ID	Method	pH	Temperature	Details
1	VAPOR DIFFUSION, SITTING DROP	7	291	1.53M Sodium Malonate, pH 7.0. PlfaA.00133.a.A3.PS38777 at 12.3 mg/mL. 24 hour soak with 10 mM ATP and Cysteine in 3.4M sodium malonate. The cysteinyl-AMP intermediate formed during the soak. plate Liu-S-192 G6 Puck: PSL-0210, Cryo: direct from soaking solution

Crystal Properties
Matthews coefficient	Solvent content
3.49	64.73

Crystal Data

Unit Cell
Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 120.044	α = 90
b = 120.044	β = 90
c = 365.723	γ = 120

Symmetry
Space Group	P 61 2 2

Diffraction

Diffraction Experiment
ID #	Crystal ID	Scattering Type	Data Collection Temperature	Detector	Detector Type	Details	Collection Date	Monochromator	Protocol
1	1	x-ray	100	PIXEL	DECTRIS EIGER2 XE 9M		2025-09-20	M	SINGLE WAVELENGTH

Radiation Source
ID #	Source	Type	Wavelength List	Synchrotron Site	Beamline
1	SYNCHROTRON	NSLS-II BEAMLINE 19-ID	0.9786	NSLS-II	19-ID

Data Collection

Overall
ID #	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Percent Possible (Observed)	R Merge I (Observed)	Rrim I (All)	Rpim I (All)	CC (Half)	Net I Over Average Sigma (I)	Redundancy	Number Reflections (All)	Number Reflections (Observed)	Observed Criterion Sigma (F)	Observed Criterion Sigma (I)	B (Isotropic) From Wilson Plot
1	2.22	47.82	100	0.14	0.144	0.032	0.999	20	19.8		77956

Highest Resolution Shell
ID #	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Percent Possible (All)	Percent Possible (Observed)	R Merge I (Observed)	Rrim I (All)	Rpim I (All)	CC (Half)	Mean I Over Sigma (Observed)	Redundancy	Number Unique Reflections (All)
1	2.22	2.28		100	2.365	2.427	0.542	0.714		19.8

Refinement

Statistics
Diffraction ID	Structure Solution Method	Cross Validation method	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Cut-off Sigma (F)	Number Reflections (Observed)	Number Reflections (R-Free)	Percent Reflections (Observed)	R-Factor (Observed)	R-Work (Depositor)	R-Work (DCC)	R-Free (Depositor)	R-Free (DCC)	Mean Isotropic B
X-RAY DIFFRACTION	MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT	FREE R-VALUE	2.22	47.82	1.34	77823	3947	99.98	0.1772	0.1757	0.1792	0.2048	0.2068

Temperature Factor Modeling
Anisotropic B[1][1]	Anisotropic B[1][2]	Anisotropic B[1][3]	Anisotropic B[2][2]	Anisotropic B[2][3]	Anisotropic B[3][3]

RMS Deviations
Key	Refinement Restraint Deviation
f_dihedral_angle_d	18.061
f_angle_d	0.963
f_chiral_restr	0.054
f_bond_d	0.01
f_plane_restr	0.008

Non-Hydrogen Atoms Used in Refinement
Non-Hydrogen Atoms	Number
Protein Atoms	7093
Nucleic Acid Atoms
Solvent Atoms	255
Heterogen Atoms	161

Software

Software
Software Name	Purpose
PHENIX	refinement
Aimless	data scaling
XDS	data reduction
PHASER	phasing
PDB_EXTRACT	data extraction

RCSB PDB Core Operations are funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (DBI-2321666), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0019749), and the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant R01GM157729.