The mechanism of replication of phi x174 DNA. XVI. Evidence that the phi x174 viral strand is synthesized discontinuously |
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Authors: | M Matthes D T Denhardt |
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Institution: | Medical Research Council Group in Protein Structure and Function Department of Biochemistry University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7 |
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Abstract: | Chymostatin is a naturally occurring inhibitor of serine proteases that have chymotryptic-like specificity. This tetrapeptide inhibitor is produced by various species of Streptomyces bacteria. Chymostatin reacts with the serine enzyme Streptomyces griseus protease A in the crystalline state to produce an adduct, the structure of which is in agreement with hemiacetal formation between the C-terminal l-phenylalaninal residue of the inhibitor and the Oγ atom of the active Ser195 residue of S. griseus protease A. The 2.8 Å difference electron density map of the complex is also consistent with the novel structural features previously deduced spectroscopically for chymostatin; i.e. an essential (for inhibition) aldehyde function in the C-terminal l-phenylalaninal residue, an unusual arnino acid, 2-(2-iminohexahydro-(4 S)-pyrimidyl)-(S)-glycine as the third residue from the C terminus and an N-terminal amino group blocked by a (1S)-carboxyphenylethyl-carbamoyl group. There is no significant movement of the active site residues of S. griseus protease A upon complexation with chymostatin. |
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Keywords: | SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate |
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