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Demonstration of the importance and usefulness of manipulating non-active-site residues in protein design.
Journal of biochemistry - 1 Jun 2001
Shimotohno A, Oue S, Yano T, Kuramitsu S, Kagamiyama H
Abstract excerpt
Do non-active-site residues participate in protein function in a more direct way than just by holding the static framework of the protein molecule? If so, how important are they? As a model to answer these questions, ATB17, which is a mutant of aspartate aminotransferase created by directed evolution, is an ideal system because it shows a 10(6)-fold increase in the catalytic efficiency for valine but most of its...
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