An unusual buried polar cluster in a family of fungal lipases.
Derewenda, U., Swenson, L., Green, R., Wei, Y., Dodson, G.G., Yamaguchi, S., Haas, M.J., Derewenda, Z.S.(1994) Nat Struct Biol 1: 36-47
- PubMed: 7656005 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0194-36
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1TIA - PubMed Abstract: 
The stability of globular proteins arises largely from the burial of non-polar amino acids in their interior. These residues are efficiently packed to eliminate energetically unfavorable cavities. Contrary to these observations, high resolution X-ray crystallographic analyses of four homologous lipases from filamentous fungi reveal an alpha/beta fold which contains a buried conserved constellation of charged and polar side chains with associated cavities containing ordered water molecules. It is possible that this structural arrangement plays an important role in interfacial catalysis.
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
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