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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2009

Direct observation of an enamine intermediate in amine catalysis.

Xueyong Zhu, Fujie Tanaka, Richard A Lerner, Carlos F Barbas, Ian A Wilson

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Xueyong ZhuDepartment of Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Fujie Tanaka
Richard A Lerner
Carlos F Barbas
Ian A Wilson

Funding

TUMORICIDAL ACTIVITY OF HOST COMPLEMENTP01CA027489 · NCI · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LERNER, RICHARD ALAN · 1985 to 2004
$7.7M
Structural Basis of T Cell Receptor RecognitionR37AI042266 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WILSON, IAN A · 2003 to 2012
$5.8M
Structural basis of TLR and NLR recognition and signalingR01AI042266 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WILSON, IAN A · 1998 to 2017
$3.7M
NCI NIH HHS CA27489NCI NIH HHS P01 CA027489NIAID NIH HHS AI042266NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI042266NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI042266
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An enamine intermediate is believed to be the central feature of biological catalysts, such as aldolases and small molecule amine organocatalysts. Despite decades of investigation of naturally occurring aldolase enzymes and recent studies on designed aldolase antibodies and organocatalysts, direct structural observation of an enamine intermediate has proven to be rare. Herein, we report the observation of a stable enamine intermediate in the crystal structure of an aldolase antibody 33F12 in complex with a 1,3-diketone derivative. This enamine complex structure provides strong evidence that fewer residues are essential for amine catalysis within the hydrophobic environments of this catalytic antibody than speculated for natural aldolase enzymes and should serve to guide future studies aimed at the rational design of these types of catalysts, as well as organocatalysts. Indeed, enamine catalysis in proteins might be more simplistic than previously imagined.

Indexed as

Aldehyde-LyasesAminesAntibodiesCatalysisCrystallizationKetonesAldehyde-LyasesAminesAntibodiesKetones

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PMID19968282
PMCPMC3227542

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