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X-Ray Crystallography to Study the Oligomeric State Transition of the Thermotoga maritima M42 Aminopeptidase TmPep1050
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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of various enzyme-substrate complexes of isopropylmalate
Angelo Merli1, Karuppasamy Manikandan, Eva Gráczer
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Parma, Viale G. P. Usberti 23/A, 43100 Parma, Italy.
Abstract:
The Thermus thermophilus 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (Tt-IPMDH) enzyme catalyses the penultimate step of the leucine-biosynthesis pathway. It converts (2R,3S)-3-isopropylmalate to (2S)-2-isopropyl-3-oxosuccinate in the presence of divalent Mg(2+) or Mn(2+) and with the help of NAD(+). In order to elucidate the detailed structural and functional mode of the enzymatic reaction, crystals of Tt-IPMDH were grown in the presence of various combinations of substrate and/or cofactors. Here, the crystallization, data collection and preliminary crystallographic analyses of six such complexes are reported.
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