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Reflections on the catalytic power of a TIM-barrel.
Bioorganic chemistry - 1 Dec 2014
Richard John P, Zhai Xiang, Malabanan M Merced
Abstract excerpt
The TIM-barrel fold is described and its propagation throughout the enzyme universe noted. The functions of the individual front loops of the eponymous TIM-barrel of triosephosphate isomerase are presented in a discussion of: (a) electrophilic catalysis, by amino acid side chains from loops 1 and 4, of abstraction of an α-carbonyl hydrogen from substrate dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) or d-glyceraldehyde...
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