Yingying Zheng, Chun-Hsiang Huang, Wenting Liu, Tzu-Ping Ko, Yanfen Xue, Cheng Zhou, Rey-Ting Guo, Yanhe Ma
Industrial Enzymes National Engineering Laboratory, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin 300308, China.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2012 Apr 6The pectate lyase (Bsp165PelA) from Bacillus sp. N16-5 has great potential in industrial applications because it shows high specific activity under extremely alkaline conditions. Besides, activity measurement of Bsp165PelA does not require addition of calcium, in a way different from the other pectate lyases. Here we report crystal structures of Bsp165PelA in apo-form and in complex with trigalacturonate. The parallel β-helix, active site residues and substrate binding cleft are similar to those in the other pectate lyases from Polysaccharide Lyase family 1. However, some of the highly conserved Ca(2+) binding residues and secondary structures are altered in Bsp165PelA, making it difficult to coordinate with Ca(2+) as in the other pectate lyases. We found Bsp165PelA forms some direct enzyme-substrate interactions instead of using Ca(2+) ions bridging in the extremely alkaline environment. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Yingying Zheng, Chun-Hsiang Huang, Wenting Liu, Tzu-Ping Ko, Yanfen Xue, Cheng Zhou, Rey-Ting Guo, Yanhe Ma. Crystal structure and substrate-binding mode of a novel pectate lyase from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. N16-5. Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 2012 Apr 6;420(2):269-74
PMID: 22414692
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