Reengineering the specificity of a serine active-site enzyme. Two active-site mutations convert a hydrolase to a transferase.

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Two residues are known to play important catalytic roles in fatty acyl-thioester hydrolase, thioesterase II: Ser-101, the site of a covalent acyl-enzyme intermediate, and His-237 which is within hydrogen bonding distance of Ser-101 and facilitates catalysis by increasing the nucleophilicity of this residue. In this study we have examined the effect of mutations at these two residues on the ability of the enzyme...

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