... and mutant structure are in the same range as the differences between the two molecules of the asymmetric unit of the wild-type structure Neither the mutation nor the different crystallization ... well The hydrogen bond between the backbone nitrogen atom of Asp291 and the 3phosphate of the substrate is the only interaction with the protein backbone; all other contacts are formed using the ... similarity to PhyK in the a ⁄ b domain than in the a domain [20] This is also reflected in the rigidity of the protein The atomic displacement factors of the PhyK structure are smaller for the a ⁄ b domain...
... N-terminus, theactivesite C29 The C-terminal domain is based on a four-stranded b-barrel fold, contributing H199, the other activesite residue Theactivesite cleft is formed at the interface ... the inhibitors as well as to the packing constraints of the environment The larger and wider the features of the ligands that compete with the occluding loop for binding to theactive site, the ... originating from the propeptide, termed the mini chain, which blocks the unprimed binding site [19] The mini loop in carboxypeptidase cathepsin X blocks the primed side of theactive site, restricting...
... the activity Given the 3D structure of the HtA active site, and the interactions between side chains, we propose that D40, H42, R95 and F126 also form part of it As in other ribotoxins, theactive ... the structure of the remaining part is the same in both proteins, including a short segment (N56, C57 and D58) forming a turn of 310 helix (D75, C76 and D77 in a-sarcin) TheactivesiteTheactive ... theactivesite of the ribotoxins a-sarcin and restrictocin (Fig 3B) On the basis of its sequence alignment, which matched it with Y48 in a-sarcin, Y44 was proposed to be part of theactive site...
... binding of the feedback inhibitor dTTP and the position of Mg2+ in theactivesite Mg ion that coordinates the phosphates of dTTP (Fig 3) Discussion Mutation of residues in theactivesite was ... for the chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer and viral diseases because they catalyse the addition of the first phosphate group to the nucleoside analogue This primes the nucleoside for further ... functional group, the dramatically decreased catalytic rate is most likely due to the increased distance between the catalytic base and the 5¢-OH of either dThd or dCyd These results favour the reaction-mechanistic...
... is at pH These preferred activities of the two PPOs of R solanacearum are opposite to the names assigned to them when the genome of this bacterium was sequenced and the function of these conceptual ... respectively, the amounts of protein (lg) in the TH and DO activity peaks Yields were calculated with the values in parentheses, which are the three most active fractions from the purification ... Comparison of the amino acid sequences at theactivesite with other tyrosinases and catechol oxidases allows us to propose correlations between key residues in the catalytic patterns of these enzymes...
... 234 and 235 [9] Of theses residues, only Arg213 is in the vicinity of theactivesite of RTA In order to establish the role of arginyl residues around theactivesite of RTA in the binding of rRNA, ... facilitate docking into theactivesite of RTA Here, two of the models proposed [10] have been examined (Fig 1) The third model in which the hexanucleotide is bound to theactivesite of RTA in an ... between the base G4 and the sidechain of Asn122 In the second model (Fig 1B) the structure of the hexanucelotide is, on the whole, unchanged and the majority of the interactions that were seen in the...
... (Thr) (Fig 6); the G-A transition concurs with the use of hydroxylamine as the mutagenic agent [14] Therefore, the dfp-1 mutation is within the AAVAD motif of the C-terminal PPC synthetase (CoaB) ... 4¢-phosphopantetheine and coenzyme A biosynthesis With the used assay, it is difficult to evaluate the PPC synthetase activity at different temperatures, because the enzymatic activity of the present pantothenate ... 4¢-phosphopantothenic acid, CTP and cysteine The synthesis of PPC occurs in two half reactions starting with the formation of 4¢-phosphopantothenoyl-CMP (activation of the carboxyl group of 4¢-phosphopantothenate)...
... both the acetylation state of the promoter region of theactive b-globin gene [19] and the DNase I general sensitivity in the b-globin locus are the same as the wild type control [17] Thus, there ... the chromatin state of the cells with any deletion in the regions I–IV in the Ig-b locus, judged by DHSs as the indicator, was the same as that in predeletion cells, the region required for the ... and each of these regions was deleted in DT40 cells The roles of the DHSs on Ig-b gene expression and the maintenance of active chromatin state in the Ig-b locus were examined in the deletion...
... the deeply buried activesite [23–25] As both molecular H2 and O2 are hydrophobic gases, they probably use the same access pathway to the hydrogenase activesiteThe amino-acid sequences of the ... during the activation step of the ready enzyme increases the lag phase without preventing the activation [29] On the other hand, when added to theactive enzyme, O2 would react directly with theactive ... theactivesite to O2 In the mutated protein, O2 has access to theactive bimetallic site, which would remain in the inactive form, and, consequently, this protein exhibits some features of the...
... properly as a lid for theactive site, thereby granting easier access for the cofactor ThDP to its binding siteThe lower thermal stability of the mutant E1s and the increased Vmax in the DCPIP assay, ... with the E1 crystal structures in that the arginine residues corresponding to E1aR282 of the B stearothermophilus E1 are not pointing towards theactive site, identified by the C2-carbon of the ... decarboxylase; one activesite was found to be in an open conformation, with two loop regions disordered, whereas in the other these loop regions were well-ordered and shielded theactivesite from the bulk...
... colloidal chitin and the enzyme influences theactivesite properties The cause of these differences is not known Km and kcat measurements of hevamine and mutants Comparison of the steady-state kinetic ... shows that the use of chitohexaose in the cocrystallization experiments resulted only in a chitotetraose molecule being bound in theactivesite (at subsites )1 to )4) In contrast, the cocrystallization ... and Asp125 In the mutants, the hydrogen bond of the amide nitrogen with the Asp125 side chain is not possible anymore, and the )1 N-acetyl group points away from the C1 atom of the )1 sugar (Fig...
... simulations of the modelled binary GK–ATP complex revealed that the global rmsd of the structure converged at the end of the 2-ns simulation period (Fig S2A) The dynamic changes in theactivesite cleft ... conformation The MD simulations indicate that the binding triggers molecular motion of the flexible surface ⁄ activesite loop and partial closure of the interdomain activesite cleft The modelled ... ATP-binding site in the MD simulated model structure of the binary hGK–ATP complex and the domain motion induced by ATP binding to the hGK apoenzyme (A) Close-up view of the ATPbinding site in the MD...
... shift of the pS curve towards higher substrate concentrations due to the lower affinity of both the free and acetylated mutated active sites If choline could leave theactivesite by the back ... replacing the loop from amino acids 103–136 This external loop is at the opposite side of the molecule with respect to theactivesite entrance and its deletion does not affect the activity or the ... the case of the Glu mutation, the b value is linked to the k2 value and thus both cannot be estimated independently However, if b is set to (i.e the symmetry of the pS curve supporting it), the...
... the I2BS stereospecificities would be useful Interestingly, the lowest-energy orientation for each of the three ligands in the large activesite of MAO-A put them in the middle of theactivesite ... for theactivesite than reported values for I2BS It seems clear that theactivesite of MAO is not thesite to which I2BS ligands bind with nanomolar affinity However, imidazolines bind at theactive ... the binding siteThe initial energy-minimized orientations for guanabenz, 2-BFI and idazoxan placed the compounds at the entrance of theactivesite cavity near amino acid residues found in the...
... nidulans, and the activities of the site- directed variants (when active) could be directly detected in filtrates of 48 h cultures of the transformants harbouring the mutated aao sequences The first ... residue affects the FAD environment, even without being located in the near vicinity of the cofactor, but further studies are required 4882 Conserved histidines at the AAO activesite AAO His502 ... formation) by an activesite base contributing to the transfer of a hydride from the substrate a-carbon to the flavin cofactor [40–46] Site- directed mutagenesis suggested that the conserved histidine...
... that the carboxylic groups in the Asp140-Asp142-Glu144 triad contain two protons at the pH where the enzyme is most activeThe basic arm of the pH-activity profile must be determined by the loss ... the D140N, D142N, E144Q and D215N mutants, the pH-dependency of specific activity was recorded for these four mutants and the four corresponding alanine mutants The least active mutants (i.e the ... in the preceding run Some of the pH profiles differed strongly from the wildtype profile, however, the profiles for the amide and corresponding alanine mutants were similar in all cases Together these...
... Discussion The characterization of the SsAH enzyme described here strongly suggests that the Ser171–cisSer195–Lys96 catalytic triad, similarly to other members of this family, forms theactivesite ... synthesized Forward and reverse primers correspond to the first 20 nucleotides at the 5¢- and 3¢- of the gene coding sequence and include the NcoI and BamHI sites, at each end, respectively The ... more efficiently than the SsAH-WT (Table 1) The behaviour of this mutant can be rationally explained on the basis of the homology model, as the increased occupancy deriving from the arginine side...
... AdePeCbl at the cobalamin moiety without cleavage of the Co-C bond Center, The same superimposition at both the cobalamin moiety and the adenine ring with the Co-C bond cleaved and the Co-C distance ... been synthesized [24–26] These analogues might be useful as probes for exploring theactive sites of AdoCbl-dependent enzymes In this paper, we have investigated the coenzymic properties of these ... property of these coenzyme analogues would be reasonably explained by the fact that adenine-anchored radicals are formed by photolysis of their Co-C bond and kept associated with theactivesite The...
... to the methyl group of AdoMet and is the most reactive residue in the catalytic center of the enzyme To test whether the catalytic cysteine is the target for auto-methylation, we purified the ... leads to the formation of a covalent bond between the enzyme and the substrate base The formation of the cysteine–cytosine bond increases the negative charge density at the C5 atom of the cytosine, ... type The distance between the sulfhydryl atom of the catalytic cysteine side chain and sulfur ˚ atom of AdoHcy (7.66 A) is indicated On the other hand, they harbor a cysteine residue in their active...
... that these residues stabilize the distortion of the NAG3 residue In these interactions, we particularly focused on the Trp664 residue, which is located at the bottom of theactivesite cleft The ... conformational changes, but of the removal of negative charge at these residues Conformation of chito-oligosaccharides bound to theactivesite cleft For the structural determination of the AD2–substrate ... on the b4-strand (Fig 1) The Glu (E) in this motif acts as the catalytic proton donor, and the second Asp (D2) is supposed to contribute to the stabilization of the essential distortion of the...