5aou

Structure of the engineered retro-aldolase RA95.5-8F apo

spinqualitylabelsall models 5aou, resolution 1.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 5aou is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Saccharolobus solfataricus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: EDO, MHO, PO4 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function TRPC_SACS2 Publication Abstract from PubMed Designing catalysts that achieve the rates and selectivities of natural enzymes is a long-standing goal in protein chemistry. Here, we show that an ultrahigh-throughput droplet-based microfluidic screening platform can be used to improve a previously optimized artificial aldolase by an additional factor of 30 to give a >109 rate enhancement that rivals the efficiency of class I aldolases. The resulting enzyme catalyses a reversible aldol reaction with high stereoselectivity and tolerates a broad range of substrates. Biochemical and structural studies show that catalysis depends on a Lys-Tyr-Asn-Tyr tetrad that emerged adjacent to a computationally designed hydrophobic pocket during directed evolution. This constellation of residues is poised to activate the substrate by Schiff base formation, promote mechanistically important proton transfers and stabilize multiple transition states along a complex reaction coordinate. The emergence of such a sophisticated catalytic centre shows that there is nothing magical about the catalytic activities or mechanisms of naturally occurring enzymes, or the evolutionary process that gave rise to them. Emergence of a catalytic tetrad during evolution of a highly active artificial aldolase.,Obexer R, Godina A, Garrabou X, Mittl PR, Baker D, Griffiths AD, Hilvert D Nat Chem. 2017 Jan;9(1):50-56. doi: 10.1038/nchem.2596. Epub 2016 Aug 29. PMID:27995916 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Aldolase 3D structures IGPS 3D structures

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