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SUBMITTER: van Aalten DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC18521 | biostudies-literature | 2000 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000501 11
In this paper, we describe the structure of chitinase B from Serratia marcescens, which consists of a catalytic domain with a TIM-barrel fold and a 49-residue C-terminal chitin-binding domain. This chitinase is the first structure of a bacterial exochitinase, and it represents one of only a few examples of a glycosyl hydrolase structure having interacting catalytic and substrate-binding domains. The chitin-binding domain has exposed aromatic residues that contribute to a 55-A long continuous aro ...[more]