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==W229D mutant of the last common ancestor of Gram-negative bacteria (GNCA) beta-lactamase class A==
<StructureSection load='4uhu' size='340' side='right'caption='[[4uhu]], [[Resolution|resolution]] 1.30&Aring;' scene=''>
== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[4uhu]] is a 1 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_construct Synthetic construct]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=4UHU OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=4UHU FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 1.305&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=ACT:ACETATE+ION'>ACT</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=FMT:FORMIC+ACID'>FMT</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=4uhu FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=4uhu OCA], [https://pdbe.org/4uhu PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=4uhu RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/4uhu PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=4uhu ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Protein engineering studies often suggest the emergence of completely new enzyme functionalities to be highly improbable. However, enzymes likely catalysed many different reactions already in the last universal common ancestor. Mechanisms for the emergence of completely new active sites must therefore either plausibly exist or at least have existed at the primordial protein stage. Here, we use resurrected Precambrian proteins as scaffolds for protein engineering and demonstrate that a new active site can be generated through a single hydrophobic-to-ionizable amino acid replacement that generates a partially buried group with perturbed physico-chemical properties. We provide experimental and computational evidence that conformational flexibility can assist the emergence and subsequent evolution of new active sites by improving substrate and transition-state binding, through the sampling of many potentially productive conformations. Our results suggest a mechanism for the emergence of primordial enzymes and highlight the potential of ancestral reconstruction as a tool for protein engineering.

De novo active sites for resurrected Precambrian enzymes.,Risso VA, Martinez-Rodriguez S, Candel AM, Kruger DM, Pantoja-Uceda D, Ortega-Munoz M, Santoyo-Gonzalez F, Gaucher EA, Kamerlin SCL, Bruix M, Gavira JA, Sanchez-Ruiz JM Nat Commun. 2017 Jul 18;8:16113. doi: 10.1038/ncomms16113. PMID:28719578<ref>PMID:28719578</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Synthetic construct]]
[[Category: Gavira JA]]
[[Category: Martinez-Rodriguez S]]
[[Category: Risso VA]]
[[Category: Sanchez-Ruiz JM]]