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. 1995 Nov 7;92(23):10595–10598. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.23.10595

Location of the active site of allosteric chorismate mutase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and comments on the catalytic and regulatory mechanisms.

Y Xue 1, W N Lipscomb 1
PMCID: PMC40658  PMID: 7479847

Abstract

The active site of the allosteric chorismate mutase (chorismate pyruvatemutase, EC 5.4.99.5) from yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (YCM) was located by comparison with the mutase domain (ECM) of chorismate mutase/prephenate dehydratase [prephenate hydro-lyase (decarboxylating), EC 4.2.1.51] (the P protein) from Escherichia coli. Active site domains of these two enzymes show very similar four-helix bundles, each of 94 residues which superimpose with a rms deviation of 1.06 A. Of the seven active site residues, four are conserved: the two arginines, which bind to the inhibitor's two carboxylates; the lysine, which binds to the ether oxygen; and the glutamate, which binds to the inhibitor's hydroxyl group in ECM and presumably in YCM. The other three residues in YCM (ECM) are Thr-242 (Ser-84), Asn-194 (Asp-48), and Glu-246 (Gln-88). This Glu-246, modeled close to the ether oxygen of chorismate in YCM, may function as a polarizing or ionizable group, which provides another facet to the catalytic mechanism.

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