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Magnitude and origin of the enhanced basicity of the catalytic glutamate of triosephosphate isomerase.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 24 Apr 2013
Malabanan M Merced, Nitsch-Velasquez Lucia, Amyes Tina L, Richard John P
Abstract excerpt
Glu-167 of triosephosphate isomerase from Trypanosoma brucei brucei (TbbTIM) acts as the base to deprotonate substrate to form an enediolate phosphate trianion intermediate. We report that there is a large ~6 pK unit increase in the basicity of the carboxylate side chain of Glu-167 upon binding of the inhibitor phosphoglycolate trianion (I(3-)), an analog of the enediolate phosphate intermediate, from pKEH ≈ 4...
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