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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 283, 期 45, 页码 30766-30771出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M805353200
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- National Institutes of Health [GM25154, RR001646]
- MacCHESS
- Thomas Maren Foundation
- U. S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-97ER62443]
- CHESS
- U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health-NIGMS [DMR-0225180]
The visualization at near atomic resolution of transient substrates in the active site of enzymes is fundamental to fully understanding their mechanism of action. Here we show the application of using CO2-pressurized, cryo-cooled crystals to capture the first step of CO2 hydration catalyzed by the zinc-metalloenzyme human carbonic anhydrase II, the binding of substrate CO2, for both the holo and the apo (without zinc) enzyme to 1.1 angstrom resolution. Until now, the feasibility of such a study was thought to be technically too challenging because of the low solubility of CO2 and the fast turnover to bicarbonate by the enzyme (Liang, J. Y., and Lipscomb, W. N. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 87, 3675-3679). These structures provide insight into the long hypothesized binding of CO2 in a hydrophobic pocket at the active site and demonstrate that the zinc does not play a critical role in the binding or orientation of CO2. This method may also have a much broader implication for the study of other enzymes for which CO2 is a substrate or product and for the capturing of transient substrates and revealing hydrophobic pockets in proteins.
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