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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2008

Comparative enzymology in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily to determine the catalytic role of an active-site metal ion.

Jesse G Zalatan, Timothy D Fenn, Daniel Herschlag

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. ProtMiscuity: a database of promiscuous proteins.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2019
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3 authors.

Jesse G ZalatanDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Beckman Center B400, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Timothy D Fenn
Daniel Herschlag

Funding

Study of Nonenzymatic and Enzymatic Phosphoryl TransferR01GM064798 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Polly Morrell Fordyce, DANIEL HERSCHLAG · 2002 to 2026
$5.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM64798NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM064798
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanistic models for biochemical systems are frequently proposed from structural data. Site-directed mutagenesis can be used to test the importance of proposed functional sites, but these data do not necessarily indicate how these sites contribute to function. In this study, we applied an alternative approach to the catalytic mechanism of alkaline phosphatase (AP), a widely studied prototypical bimetallo enzyme. A third metal ion site in AP has been suggested to provide general base catalysis, but comparison of AP with an evolutionarily related enzyme casts doubt on this model. Removal of this metal site from AP has large differential effects on reactions of cognate and promiscuous substrates, and the results are inconsistent with general base catalysis. Instead, these and additional results suggest that the third metal ion stabilizes the transferred phosphoryl group in the transition state. These results establish a new mechanistic model for this prototypical bimetallo enzyme and demonstrate the power of a comparative approach for probing biochemical function.

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Alkaline PhosphataseBiocatalysisCatalytic DomainCrystallography, X-RayEscherichia coliEstersHydrolysisKineticsMagnesiumModels, MolecularPhosphatesPyrophosphatasesSubstrate SpecificitySulfatesSulfhydryl CompoundsAlkaline PhosphataseEstersMagnesiumnucleotide pyrophosphatasePhosphatesPyrophosphatasesSulfatesSulfhydryl Compounds

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PMID18851975
PMCPMC2622731

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