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Exceptionally stable salt bridges in cytochrome P450cam have functional roles.
Biochemistry - 6 May 1997
Lounnas V, Wade R C
Abstract excerpt
A long-standing puzzle in structure-function studies of cytochrome P450cam is how the substrate, camphor, reaches the buried active site. The crystal structure shows no channel from the surface to the active site large enough for substrate to pass through. Recent experiments indicate that access of the rather nonpolar substrate to the active site is controlled by electrostatic interactions and may involve rupture...
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