Millisecond Laue structures of an enzyme-product complex using photocaged substrate analogs.
Stoddard, B.L., Cohen, B.E., Brubaker, M., Mesecar, A.D., Koshland Jr., D.E.(1998) Nat Struct Biol 5: 891-897
- PubMed: 9783749 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/2331
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1BL5 - PubMed Abstract: 
The structure of a rate-limited product complex formed during a single initial round of turnover by isocitrate dehydrogenase has been determined. Photolytic liberation of either caged substrate or caged cofactor and Laue X-ray data collection were used to visualize the complex, which has a minimum half-life of approximately 10 milliseconds. The experiment was conducted with three different photoreactive compounds, each possessing a unique mechanism leading to the formation of the enzyme-substrate (ES) complex. Photoreaction efficiency and subsequent substrate affinities and binding rates in the crystal are critical parameters for these experiments. The structure suggests that CO2 dissociation is a rapid event that may help drive product formation, and that small conformational changes may contribute to slow product release.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Division of Basic Sciences, Program in Structural Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA. bstoddar@fred.fhcrc.org