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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2013 Sep 6;52(37):6396–6411. doi: 10.1021/bi400795e

Table 4.

Global Conformation States as a Function of the Chemical State of the β-Site and Ligand-Bound Species Along the Tryptophan Synthase αβ-Reaction Pathway

Substrate Global Conformation States
Stage I
α*βC(Ain) α*βC(Ain) α*βO(Ain) α*βO(Ain)
L-Ser
αOβC(GD1) αCβC(GD1) αCβO(GD1) αOβO(GD1)
αOβC(Aex1) αCβC(Aex1) αCβO(Aex1) αOβO(Aex1)
αOβC(Q1) αCβC(Q1) αCβO(Q1) αOβO(Q1)
α O β C (A-A) αCβC(A-A) αCβO(A-A) αOβO(A-A)
Stage II
IGP
(IGP)αOβC(A-A) (IGP)αC βC (A-A) (IGP)αCβO(A-A) (IGP)αOβO(A-A)
(G3P)αOβC(A-A)(Indole) (G3P)αC βC (A-A)(Indole) (G3P)αCβO(A-A)(Indole) (G3P)αOβO(A-A)(Indole)
(G3P)αOβC(Q2/3) (G3P)αC βC (Q2/3) (G3P)αCβO(Q2/3) (G3P)αOβO(Q2/3)
(G3P)αOβC(Aex2) (G3P)αC βC (Aex2) (G3P)αCβO(Aex2) (G3P)αOβO(Aex2)
G3P αOβC(Aex2) αCβC(Aex2) αC βO(Aex2) αOβO(Aex2)
αOβC(GD2) αCβC(GD2) αCβO(GD2) αOβO(GD2)
L-Trp α*βC(Ain) α*βC(Ain) α*βO(Ain) α*βO(Ain)