Publication Date:
1988-07-01
Description:
The three-dimensional structure of ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), has been determined at 2.6 A resolution. This enzyme initiates photosynthesis by combining carbon dioxide with ribulose bisphosphate to form two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate. In plants, RuBisCO is built from eight large (L) and eight small (S) polypeptide chains, or subunits. Both S chains and the NH2-terminal domain (N) of L are antiparallel beta, "open-face-sandwich" domains with four-stranded beta sheets and flanking alpha helices. The main domain (B) of L is an alpha/beta barrel containing most of the catalytic residues. The active site is in a pocket at the opening of the barrel that is partly covered by the N domain of a neighboring L chain. The domain contacts of the molecule and its conserved residues are discussed in terms of this structure.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chapman, M S -- Suh, S W -- Curmi, P M -- Cascio, D -- Smith, W W -- Eisenberg, D S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 1;241(4861):71-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3133767" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Macromolecular Substances
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Plants/*enzymology
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Protein Conformation
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Rhodospirillum rubrum/enzymology
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*Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase
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X-Ray Diffraction
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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