Nature Communications (May 2019)

Discovery of processive catalysis by an exo-hydrolase with a pocket-shaped active site

  • Victor A. Streltsov,
  • Sukanya Luang,
  • Alys Peisley,
  • Joseph N. Varghese,
  • James R. Ketudat Cairns,
  • Sebastien Fort,
  • Marcel Hijnen,
  • Igor Tvaroška,
  • Ana Ardá,
  • Jesús Jiménez-Barbero,
  • Mercedes Alfonso-Prieto,
  • Carme Rovira,
  • Fernanda Mendoza,
  • Laura Tiessler-Sala,
  • José-Emilio Sánchez-Aparicio,
  • Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra,
  • José M. Lluch,
  • Jean-Didier Maréchal,
  • Laura Masgrau,
  • Maria Hrmova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09691-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Enzyme substrates and products often diffuse too rapidly to assess the catalytic implications of these movements. Here, the authors characterise the structural basis of product and substrate diffusion for an exo-hydrolase and discover a substrate-product assisted processive catalytic mechanism.