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The crystal structure of the Asp-199----Asn mutant of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) has been determined to 2.35-A resolution. In wild-type CAT Asp-199 is involved in a fully buried intrasubunit salt bridge with Arg-18, an interaction that is adjacent to the active site. Replacement of aspartate with asparagine by site-directed mutagenesis disrupts this salt bridge and causes extensive conformational changes within the active site. The imidazole group of the catalytically essential His-195 is reoriented, with the loss of interactions thought to stabilize the preferred tautomer of this residue. Arg-18 and Asn-199 form three new intersubunit interactions as a result of large side-chain torsion angle changes which cause the movement of two polypeptide loops, some residues of which are up to 20 A away from the site of the mutation. The new interactions of Arg-18 and Asn-199 compensate for the loss of the buried salt bridge and afford near-wild-type thermostability to Asn-199 CAT, albeit with a greatly reduced activity.

2CLA is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli] with <scene name='pdbligand=CO:'>CO</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligand ligand]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramphenicol_O-acetyltransferase Chloramphenicol O-acetyltransferase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=2.3.1.28 2.3.1.28] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2CLA OCA].  

[[Category: Gibbs, M R.]]

[[Category: Leslie, A G.W.]]

[[Category: Moody, P C.E.]]

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