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Plants developed a diverse battery of defense mechanisms in response to continual challenges by a broad spectrum of pathogenic microorganisms. Their defense arsenal includes inhibitors of cell wall-degrading enzymes, which hinder a possible invasion and colonization by antagonists. The structure of Triticum aestivum xylanase inhibitor-I (TAXI-I), a first member of potent TAXI-type inhibitors of fungal and bacterial family 11 xylanases, has been determined to 1.7-A resolution. Surprisingly, TAXI-I displays structural homology with the pepsin-like family of aspartic proteases but is proteolytically nonfunctional, because one or more residues of the essential catalytical triad are absent. The structure of the TAXI-I.Aspergillus niger xylanase I complex, at a resolution of 1.8 A, illustrates the ability of tight binding and inhibition with subnanomolar affinity and indicates the importance of the C-terminal end for the differences in xylanase specificity among different TAXI-type inhibitors.

1T6E is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triticum_aestivum Triticum aestivum] with <scene name='pdbligand=GOL:'>GOL</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligand ligand]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.2.1.8 3.2.1.8] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1T6E OCA].  

[[Category: Courtin, C M.]]

[[Category: Delcour, J A.]]

[[Category: Ranter, C J.De.]]

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