Publication Date:
2003-03-15
Description:
Enzymes provide enormous rate enhancements, unmatched by any other type of catalyst. The stabilization of high-energy states along the reaction coordinate is the crux of the catalytic power of enzymes. We report the atomic-resolution structure of a high-energy reaction intermediate stabilized in the active site of an enzyme. Crystallization of phosphorylated beta-phosphoglucomutase in the presence of the Mg(II) cofactor and either of the substrates glucose 1-phosphate or glucose 6-phosphate produced crystals of the enzyme-Mg(II)-glucose 1,6-(bis)phosphate complex, which diffracted x-rays to 1.2 and 1.4 angstroms, respectively. The structure reveals a stabilized pentacovalent phosphorane formed in the phosphoryl transfer from the C(1)O of glucose 1,6-(bis)phosphate to the nucleophilic Asp8 carboxylate.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lahiri, Sushmita D -- Zhang, Guofeng -- Dunaway-Mariano, Debra -- Allen, Karen N -- GM16099/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- RR07707/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Mar 28;299(5615):2067-71. Epub 2003 Mar 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118-2394, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12637673" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Binding Sites
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Catalysis
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Chemistry, Physical
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Crystallization
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Glucose-6-Phosphate/metabolism
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Glucosephosphates/chemistry/metabolism
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Lactococcus lactis/enzymology
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Ligands
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Magnesium/chemistry
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Phosphates/chemistry
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Phosphoglucomutase/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Phosphoranes/chemistry
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Phosphorus/*chemistry
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Phosphorylation
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Physicochemical Phenomena
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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