Article
Cooperative Electrostatic Interactions Drive Functional Evolution in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 22 Jul 2015
Barrozo Alexandre, Duarte Fernanda, Bauer Paul, Carvalho Alexandra T P, Kamerlin Shina C L
Abstract excerpt
It is becoming widely accepted that catalytic promiscuity, i.e., the ability of a single enzyme to catalyze the turnover of multiple, chemically distinct substrates, plays a key role in the evolution of new enzyme functions. In this context, the members of the alkaline phosphatase superfamily have been extensively studied as model systems in order to understand the phenomenon of enzyme multifunctionality. In the...
Topics
- Alkaline Phosphatase
- Burkholderia
- Catalytic Domain
- Computer Simulation
- Evolution, Molecular
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
- Models, Biological
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Protein Conformation
