Structural and biochemical analyses reveal how ornithine acetyl transferase binds acidic and basic amino acid substrates.

Iqbal A, Clifton IJ, Chowdhury R, Ivison D, Domene C, Schofield CJ

Structural and biochemical analyses reveal how ornithine acetyl-transferases catalyse the reversible transfer of an acetyl-group from a basic (ornithine) to an acidic (glutamate) amino acid by employing a common mechanism involving an acetyl-enzyme intermediate but using different side chain binding modes.

Keywords:

Acetyltransferases

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Binding Sites

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Glutamic Acid

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Models, Molecular

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Ornithine

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Streptomyces

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Substrate Specificity