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Understanding protein lids: structural analysis of active hinge mutants in triosephosphate isomerase.
Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS - 1 Apr 2004
Kursula I, Salin M, Sun J, Norledge B V, Haapalainen A M, Sampson N S, Wierenga R K
Abstract excerpt
The conformational switch from open to closed of the flexible loop 6 of triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) is essential for the catalytic properties of TIM. Using a directed evolution approach, active variants of chicken TIM with a mutated C-terminal hinge tripeptide of loop 6 have been generated (Sun,J. and Sampson,N.S., Biochemistry, 1999, 38, 11474-11481). In chicken TIM, the wild-type C-terminal hinge tripeptide...
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