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The complex of benzylsuccinic acid with thermolysin has been redetermined at 1.7-A resolution and refined to a crystallographic residual of 15.7%. In contrast to the prior study, which was to 2.3-A resolution, and without the benefit of refinement (Bolognesi, M. C. and Matthews, B. W. (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254, 634-639), the present analysis shows that it is the D- rather than the L-isomer of benzylsuccinic acid that binds. The stereochemistry of the zinc-carboxylate interaction is now seen to be syn, as is also observed in all known zinc-carboxylate complexes of both thermolysin and carboxypeptidase A. The mode of binding of the beta-carboxylate resembles the presumed geometry of the tetrahedral transition state and, as such, is consistent with the commonly accepted mechanism of action of thermolysin and of carboxypeptidase A.

1HYT is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thermoproteolyticus Bacillus thermoproteolyticus] with <scene name='pdbligand=CA:'>CA</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=DMS:'>DMS</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=BZS:'>BZS</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermolysin Thermolysin], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.4.24.27 3.4.24.27] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1HYT OCA].  

[[Category: Hausrath, A C.]]

[[Category: Matthews, B W.]]

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