Authors: Katiuscia Pagano Matteo Ramazzotti Paolo Viglino Gennaro Esposito Donatella Degl’Innocenti Niccolò Taddei Alessandra Corazza
Publish Date: 2006/10/05
Volume: 36, Issue: 3, Pages: 199-204
Abstract
The solution structure of Escherichia coli acylphosphatase E coli AcP a small enzyme catalyzing the hydrolysis of acylphosphates was determined by 1H and 15N NMR and restrained modelling calculation In analogy with the other members of AcP family E coli AcP shows an α/β sandwich domain composed of four antiparallel and one parallel βstrand assembled in a fivestranded βsheet facing two antiparallel αhelices The pairwise RMSD values calculated for the backbone atoms of E coli and Sulfolobus solfataricus AcP Bovine common type AcP and Horse muscle AcP are 218 531 and 512 Å respectively No significant differences are present in the active site region and the catalytic residue side chains are consistently positioned in the structures
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