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The enzyme cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase is closely related to alpha-amylases but has the unique ability to produce cyclodextrins (circular alpha(1--&gt;4)-linked glucoses) from starch. To characterize this specificity we determined a 1.8-A structure of an E257Q/D229N mutant cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase in complex with its product gamma-cyclodextrin, which reveals for the first time how cyclodextrin is competently bound. Across subsites -2, -1, and +1, the cyclodextrin ring binds in a twisted mode similar to linear sugars, giving rise to deformation of its circular symmetry. At subsites -3 and +2, the cyclodextrin binds in a manner different from linear sugars. Sequence comparisons and site-directed mutagenesis experiments support the conclusion that subsites -3 and +2 confer the cyclization activity in addition to subsite -6 and Tyr-195. On this basis, a role of the individual residues during the cyclization reaction cycle is proposed.

1D3C is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_circulans Bacillus circulans] with <scene name='pdbligand=CA:'>CA</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=MPD:'>MPD</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomaltodextrin_glucanotransferase Cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=2.4.1.19 2.4.1.19] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1D3C OCA].  

[[Category: Dijkstra, B W.]]

[[Category: Kalk, K H.]]

[[Category: Uitdehaag, J C.M.]]

[[Category: Veen, B A.van der.]]

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