Structural highlights
Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMedLysins are important biomolecules which cleave the bacterial cell-wall polymer peptidoglycan. They are finding increasing commercial and medical application. In order to gain an insight into the mechanism by which these enzymes operate, the X-ray structure of a CAZy family GH25 ;lysozyme' from Aspergillus fumigatus was determined. This is the first fungal structure from the family and reveals a modified alpha/beta-barrel-like fold in which an eight-stranded beta-barrel is flanked by three alpha-helices. The active site lies toward the bottom of a negatively charged pocket and its layout has much in common with other solved members of the GH25 and related GH families. A conserved active-site DXE motif may be implicated in catalysis, lending further weight to the argument that this glycoside hydrolase family operates via a ;substrate-assisted' catalytic mechanism. The structure of a family GH25 lysozyme from Aspergillus fumigatus.,Korczynska JE, Danielsen S, Schagerlof U, Turkenburg JP, Davies GJ, Wilson KS, Taylor EJ Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2010 Sep 1;66(Pt, 9):973-7. Epub 2010 Aug 21. PMID:20823508[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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