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SUBMITTER: Carr CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4004258 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carr Cody A Marcus CA Klinman Judith P JP
Biochemistry 20140403 14
A bacterial lipoxygenase (LOX) shows a deuterium kinetic isotope effect (KIE) that is similar in magnitude and temperature dependence to the very large KIE of eukaryotic LOXs. This occurs despite the evolutionary distance, an ~25% smaller catalytic domain, and an increase in Ea of ~11 kcal/mol. Site-specific mutagenesis leads to a protein variant with an Ea similar to that of the prototypic plant LOX, providing possible insight into the origin of evolutionary differences. These findings, which e ...[more]