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(1979) Nature 282: 875-878
Hen egg white lysozyme was the first enzyme whose structure was determined by X-ray crystallography. The proposed mechanism based on this structure involves the distortion of the saccharide residue (2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-muramic acid, NAM) in the natural substrate (an alternating beta (1 leads to 4) linked oligomer of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose (NAG) and NAM residues) bound to site D in the binding cleft. The importance of substrate distortion has prompted numerous enzymatic, chemical, theoretical, and physical studies, but there is little direct crystallographic evidence on the conformation of a NAM residue bound at site D. We now present the X-ray structure of the non-hydrolysed trisaccharide NAM-NAG-NAM bound in subsites B, C, D. Our interpretation of the 2.5-A resolution difference map does not involve distortion of this residue in site D. Comparison with the structure of the delta-lactone derived from tetra N-acetylchitotetraose (NAG)3NAL) bound to lysozyme suggests we may be looking at a Michaelis complex.
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Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.
Macromolecule Content
Entity ID: 1 | |||||
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Molecule | Chains | Sequence Length | Organism | Details | Image |
HEN EGG WHITE LYSOZYME | 129 | Gallus gallus | Mutation(s): 0  EC: 3.2.1.17 | ![]() | |
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Find proteins for P00698 (Gallus gallus) Explore P00698  Go to UniProtKB:  P00698 | |||||
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UniProt Group | P00698 | ||||
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Length ( Å ) | Angle ( ˚ ) |
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a = 78.97 | α = 90 |
b = 78.97 | β = 90 |
c = 38.25 | γ = 90 |
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