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SUBMITTER: Terzyan S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2144702 | biostudies-other | 2000 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Terzyan S S Wang C S CS Downs D D Hunter B B Zhang X C XC
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20000901 9
Bile-salt activated lipase (BAL) is a pancreatic enzyme that digests a variety of lipids in the small intestine. A distinct property of BAL is its dependency on bile salts in hydrolyzing substrates of long acyl chains or bulky alcoholic motifs. A crystal structure of the catalytic domain of human BAL (residues 1-538) with two surface mutations (N186D and A298D), which were introduced in attempting to facilitate crystallization, has been determined at 2.3 A resolution. The crystal form belongs to ...[more]