Download MendeleyThe crystal structure of an engineered monomeric triosephosphate isomerase, monoTIM: the correct modelling of an eight-residue loop.
Borchert, T.V., Abagyan, R., Kishan, K.V., Zeelen, J.P., Wierenga, R.K.(1993) Structure 1: 205-213
- PubMed: 16100954
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0969-2126(93)90021-8
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1TRI - PubMed Abstract:
The triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) fold is found in several different classes of enzymes, most of which are oligomers; TIM itself always functions as a very tight dimer. It has recently been shown that a monomeric form of TIM ('monoTIM') can be constructed by replacing a 15-residue interface loop, loop-3, with an eight-residue fragment; modelling suggests that this should result in a short strain-free turn, resulting in the subsequent helix, helix-A3, having an additional turn at its amino terminus. The crystal structure of monoTIM shows that it retains the characteristic TIM-barrel (betaalpha)8-fold and that the new loop has a structure very close to that predicted. Two other interface loops, loop-1 and loop-4, which contain the active site residues Lys13 and His95, respectively, show significant changes in structure in monoTIM compared with dimeric wild-type TIM. The observed structural differences between monoTIM and wild-type TIM indicate that the dimeric appearance of TIM determines the location and conformation of two of the four catalytic residues.
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, Postfach 102209, D69012 Heidelberg, Germany.
