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==Overview==

A carbonic anhydrase from the thermophilic archaeon Methanosarcina, thermophila that exhibits no significant sequence similarity to known, carbonic anhydrases has recently been characterized. Here we present the, structure of this enzyme, which adopts a left-handed parallel beta-helix, fold. This fold is of particular interest since it contains only, left-handed crossover connections between the parallel beta-strands, which, so far have been observed very infrequently. The active form of the enzyme, is a trimer with three zinc-containing active sites, each located at the, interface between two monomers. While the arrangement of active site, groups differs between this enzyme and the carbonic anhydrases from higher, vertebrates, there are structural similarities in the zinc coordination, environment, suggestive of convergent evolution dictated by the chemical, requirements for catalysis of the same reaction. Based on sequence, similarities, the structure of this enzyme is the prototype of a new class, of carbonic anhydrases with representatives in all three phylogenetic, domains of life.

A carbonic anhydrase from the thermophilic archaeon Methanosarcina thermophila that exhibits no significant sequence similarity to known carbonic anhydrases has recently been characterized. Here we present the structure of this enzyme, which adopts a left-handed parallel beta-helix fold. This fold is of particular interest since it contains only left-handed crossover connections between the parallel beta-strands, which so far have been observed very infrequently. The active form of the enzyme is a trimer with three zinc-containing active sites, each located at the interface between two monomers. While the arrangement of active site groups differs between this enzyme and the carbonic anhydrases from higher vertebrates, there are structural similarities in the zinc coordination environment, suggestive of convergent evolution dictated by the chemical requirements for catalysis of the same reaction. Based on sequence similarities, the structure of this enzyme is the prototype of a new class of carbonic anhydrases with representatives in all three phylogenetic domains of life.

==About this Structure==

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[[Category: Single protein]]

[[Category: Kisker, C.]]

[[Category: Rees, D.C.]]

[[Category: Rees, D C.]]

[[Category: Schindelin, H.]]

[[Category: ZN]]

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[[Category: lyase (oxo-acid)]]

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 ==Overview==
-A carbonic anhydrase from the thermophilic archaeon Methanosarcina, thermophila that exhibits no significant sequence similarity to known, carbonic anhydrases has recently been characterized. Here we present the, structure of this enzyme, which adopts a left-handed parallel beta-helix, fold. This fold is of particular interest since it contains only, left-handed crossover connections between the parallel beta-strands, which, so far have been observed very infrequently. The active form of the enzyme, is a trimer with three zinc-containing active sites, each located at the, interface between two monomers. While the arrangement of active site, groups differs between this enzyme and the carbonic anhydrases from higher, vertebrates, there are structural similarities in the zinc coordination, environment, suggestive of convergent evolution dictated by the chemical, requirements for catalysis of the same reaction. Based on sequence, similarities, the structure of this enzyme is the prototype of a new class, of carbonic anhydrases with representatives in all three phylogenetic, domains of life.
+A carbonic anhydrase from the thermophilic archaeon Methanosarcina thermophila that exhibits no significant sequence similarity to known carbonic anhydrases has recently been characterized. Here we present the structure of this enzyme, which adopts a left-handed parallel beta-helix fold. This fold is of particular interest since it contains only left-handed crossover connections between the parallel beta-strands, which so far have been observed very infrequently. The active form of the enzyme is a trimer with three zinc-containing active sites, each located at the interface between two monomers. While the arrangement of active site groups differs between this enzyme and the carbonic anhydrases from higher vertebrates, there are structural similarities in the zinc coordination environment, suggestive of convergent evolution dictated by the chemical requirements for catalysis of the same reaction. Based on sequence similarities, the structure of this enzyme is the prototype of a new class of carbonic anhydrases with representatives in all three phylogenetic domains of life.
 ==About this Structure==
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 [[Category: Single protein]]
 [[Category: Kisker, C.]]
-[[Category: Rees, D.C.]]
+[[Category: Rees, D C.]]
 [[Category: Schindelin, H.]]
 [[Category: ZN]]
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 [[Category: lyase (oxo-acid)]]
-''Page seeded by [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca OCA ] on Sun Feb  3 10:02:28 2008''
+''Page seeded by [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca OCA ] on Thu Feb 21 15:13:32 2008''