Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Biochemical Analysis of the Endogenous Ligands in the Ferrous Active Site of Clavaminate Synthase. The His-3 Variant of the 2-His-1-Carboxylate Model†

Biochemistry ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (29) ◽  
pp. 8666-8673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nusrat Khaleeli ◽  
Robert W. Busby ◽  
Craig A. Townsend
2000 ◽  
Vol 347 (3) ◽  
pp. 741-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle MOUYNA ◽  
Michel MONOD ◽  
Thierry FONTAINE ◽  
Bernard HENRISSAT ◽  
Barbara LÉCHENNE ◽  
...  

A new family of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored β(1-3)glucanosyltransferases (Gelp), recently identified and characterized in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, showed functional similarity to the Gas/Phr/Epd protein families, which are involved in yeast morphogenesis. Sequence comparisons and hydrophobic cluster analysis (HCA) showed that all the Gas/Phr/Epd/Gel proteins belong to a new family of glycosylhydrolases, family 72. We confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis and biochemical analysis that the two conserved glutamate residues (the putative catalytic residues of this family, as determined by HCA) are involved in the active site of this family of glycosylhydrolases.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1166-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Webb ◽  
Briony A. Yorke ◽  
Tom Kershaw ◽  
Sarah Lovelock ◽  
Carina M. C. Lobley ◽  
...  

Aspartate α-decarboxylase is a pyruvoyl-dependent decarboxylase required for the production of β-alanine in the bacterial pantothenate (vitamin B5) biosynthesis pathway. The pyruvoyl group is formedviathe intramolecular rearrangement of a serine residue to generate a backbone ester intermediate which is cleaved to generate an N-terminal pyruvoyl group. Site-directed mutagenesis of residues adjacent to the active site, including Tyr22, Thr57 and Tyr58, reveals that only mutation of Thr57 leads to changes in the degree of post-translational activation. The crystal structure of the site-directed mutant T57V is consistent with a non-rearranged backbone, supporting the hypothesis that Thr57 is required for the formation of the ester intermediate in activation.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (93) ◽  
pp. 76040-76047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenya Chen ◽  
Ye Li ◽  
Yue Feng ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Qipeng Yuan

Arg660 was found as a new active site and Asn795Ala and Trp818Ala mutants showed higher activities than the wild type based on molecular docking simulation analysis for the first time.


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