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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2012

Mutational and structural analysis of L-N-carbamoylase reveals new insights into a peptidase M20/M25/M40 family member.

Sergio Martínez-Rodríguez, Abel García-Pino, Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez, Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez, Felipe Rodríguez-Vico, Juan M García-Ruiz, Remy Loris, Jose Antonio Gavira

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sergio Martínez-RodríguezDepartamento de Química Física, Bioquímica y Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain.
Abel García-Pino
Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez
Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez
Felipe Rodríguez-Vico
Juan M García-Ruiz
Remy Loris
Jose Antonio Gavira
University of Almería · ESInstituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra · ESVrije Universiteit Brussel · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

N-Carbamoyl-L-amino acid amidohydrolases (L-carbamoylases) are important industrial enzymes used in kinetic resolution of racemic mixtures of N-carbamoyl-amino acids due to their strict enantiospecificity. In this work, we report the first L-carbamoylase structure belonging to Geobacillus stearothermophilus CECT43 (BsLcar), at a resolution of 2.7 Å. Structural analysis of BsLcar and several members of the peptidase M20/M25/M40 family confirmed the expected conserved residues at the active site in this family, and site-directed mutagenesis revealed their relevance to substrate binding. We also found an unexpectedly conserved arginine residue (Arg(234) in BsLcar), proven to be critical for dimerization of the enzyme. The mutation of this sole residue resulted in a total loss of activity and prevented the formation of the dimer in BsLcar. Comparative studies revealed that the dimerization domain of the peptidase M20/M25/M40 family is a "small-molecule binding domain," allowing further evolutionary considerations for this enzyme family.

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AmidohydrolasesAmino Acid SubstitutionCatalytic DomainConserved SequenceCrystallography, X-RayGeobacillus stearothermophilusModels, MolecularMutagenesis, Site-DirectedMutant ProteinsProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationSubstrate SpecificityAmidohydrolasesMutant ProteinsN-carbamoyl-L-amino-acid hydrolase

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PMID22904279
PMCPMC3486127
OpenAlexW2100194823

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