Circular permutants in β-glucosidases (family 3) within a predicted double-domain topology that includes a (β/α)8-barrel
✍ Scribed by Santiago García-Vallvé; Antoni Rojas; Jaume Palau; Antoni Romeu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 338 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-3585
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✦ Synopsis
By predicting the general secondary structure for -glucosidases (family 3), in conjunction with existing knowledge of the circular permutants present in B. fibrisolvens and R. albus, we were able to find the canonical elements of the secondary structure. The way these elements are linked suggests that there is a double-domain topology made up of a (/␣) 8 -barrel domain and a ''mainly all-'' domain. A number of already known conserved motifs are located within (or near) the Cterminal part of the putative parallel -strands of the (/␣) 8 -barrel, which is consistent with what is known about the location of catalytical sites for enzymes that have this domain topology. Within the circular permutants, two /␣ units are located at the N-terminal part of the molecule, whereas the other six /␣ units are located at the C-terminal end. In this way, the circular permutants can be seen to have a putative discontinuous double-domain topology. Pro-