Function of the tunnel in acetylcoenzyme A synthase/carbon monoxide dehydrogenase

@article{Tan2006FunctionOT,
  title={Function of the tunnel in acetylcoenzyme A synthase/carbon monoxide dehydrogenase},
  author={Xiangshi Tan and Anne Volbeda and Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps and Paul A. Lindahl},
  journal={JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry},
  year={2006},
  volume={11},
  pages={371-378}
}
Acetylcoenzyme A synthase/carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (ACS/CODH) contains two Ni–Fe–S active-site clusters (called A and C) connected by a tunnel through which CO and CO2 migrate. Site-directed mutants A578C, L215F, and A219F were designed to block the tunnel at different points along the region between the two C-clusters. Two other mutant proteins F70W and N101Q were designed to block the region that connects the tunnel at the ββ interface with a water channel also located at that interface… 
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CO Dehydrogenase/Acetyl‐CoA Synthase
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Tunnel mutagenesis and Ni-dependent reduction and methylation of the α subunit of acetyl coenzyme A synthase/carbon monoxide dehydrogenase
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A 2.5 A resolution structure of xenon-pressurized mtCODH/ACS is reported and the nature of gaseous cavities within this enzyme are examined to study channel design principles, as well as consider the conformational flexibility of an enzyme that contains a cavity through its center.
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Metalloproteins/metalloenzymes for the synthesis of acetyl-CoA in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway
This paper focuses on the group of metalloproteins/metalloenzymes in the acetyl-coenzyme A synthesis pathway of anaerobic microbes called Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, including formate dehydrogenase…
A substrate channel in the nitrogenase MoFe protein
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Results are consistent with the water-filled channel functioning as a substrate channel in the MoFe protein, given that each of the amino acids that were substituted is remote from the active site.
The quest for a functional substrate access tunnel in FeFe hydrogenase.
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This work reviews the literature on gas channels in proteins and enzymes and reports on the use of site-directed mutagenesis and various kinetic methods, which proved useful for characterizing substrate access to the active site of NiFe hydrogenase, to test the putative "static" H2 channel of FeFe hydrogenases.
Carbamate transport in carbamoyl phosphate synthetase: a theoretical and experimental investigation.
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The transport of carbamate through the large subunit of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CPS) from Escherichia coli was investigated by molecular dynamics and site-directed mutagenesis, finding that the tunnel is composed of three continuous water pockets and two narrow connecting parts, near Ala-23 and Gly-575.
The binding and release of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide are directed by a hydrophobic tunnel in cholesterol oxidase.
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The steady-state kinetics of both wild-type and tunnel mutant enzymes are consistent with formation of a ternary complex of steroid and oxygen during catalysis, and kinetic cooperativity with respect to molecular oxygen is observed with the tunnel mutants, but not with the wild- type enzyme.
Redox potentials and protonation of the A-cluster from acetyl-CoA synthase. A density functional theory study.
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The mechanism of PCET reductive activation of the A-cluster has been proposed for the methylation catalytic step of acetyl-CoA synthase enzyme.
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