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SUBMITTER: Grimm SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4798927 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grimm Sasha S SS Isacoff Ehud Y EY
Nature chemical biology 20160215 4
Allostery provides a critical control over enzyme activity, biasing the catalytic site between inactive and active states. We found that the Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensing phosphatase (Ci-VSP), which modifies phosphoinositide signaling lipids (PIPs), has not one but two sequential active states with distinct substrate specificities, whose occupancy is allosterically controlled by sequential conformations of the voltage-sensing domain (VSD). Using fast fluorescence resonance energy transfer ( ...[more]