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Noncoded amino acid replacement probes of the aspartate aminotransferase mechanism.
Biochemistry - 26 Aug 1997
Park Y, Luo J, Schultz P G, Kirsch J F
Abstract excerpt
The primary role of Tyr225 in the aspartate aminotransferase mechanism is to provide a hydrogen bond to stabilize the 3'O- functionality of bound pyridoxal phosphate. The strength of this hydrogen bond is perturbed by replacement of Tyr225 with 3-fluoro-L-tyrosine (FlTyr) by in vitro transcription/translation. This mutant enzyme exhibits kcat/values that are near to those of wild type enzyme; however, the kcat/vs...
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