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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2018

Millisecond Timescale Motions Connect Amino Acid Interaction Networks in Alpha Tryptophan Synthase.

Kathleen F O'Rourke, Jennifer M Axe, Rebecca N D'Amico, Debashish Sahu, David D Boehr

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Article in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathleen F O'RourkeDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Jennifer M AxeDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Rebecca N D'AmicoDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Debashish SahuDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
David D BoehrDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Pennsylvania State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tryptophan synthase is a model system for understanding allosteric regulation within enzyme complexes. Amino acid interaction networks were previously delineated in the isolated alpha subunit (αTS) in the absence of the beta subunit (βTS). The amino acid interaction networks were different between the ligand-free enzyme and the enzyme actively catalyzing turnover. Previous X-ray crystallography studies indicated only minor localized changes when ligands bind αTS, and so, structural changes alone could not explain the changes to the amino acid interaction networks. We hypothesized that the network changes could instead be related to changes in conformational dynamics. As such, we conducted nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation studies on different substrate- and products-bound complexes of αTS. Specifically, we collected

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allosteryamino acid networksenzyme dynamicsenzyme regulationprotein NMRrelaxation dispersiontryptophan synthase

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PMID30467546
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