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Expression improvement and mechanistic study of the retro-Diels-Alderase catalytic antibody 10F11 by site-directed mutagenesis.
Journal of molecular biology - 13 Aug 2004
Zheng Lei, Goddard Jean-Philippe, Baumann Ulrich, Reymond Jean-Louis
Abstract excerpt
Antibody 10F11 catalyzes the retro-Diels-Alder reaction of the bicyclic prodrug 1 releasing HNO and anthracene 4 (kcat/kuncat=2500). Earlier X-ray crystal structures of Fab 10F11 showed that tryptophan H104 at the bottom of the binding pocket interacts by pi-stacking with the aromatic ring of the substrate. Antibody 10F11 was expressed as a chimeric Fab and subjected to site-directed mutagenesis. Expression was...
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