Crystal structure of a maltotetraose-forming exo-amylase from Pseudomonas stutzeri.

1997 
Abstract The three-dimensional structure of an exo-type α-amylase from Pseudomonas stutzeri which degrades starch from its non-reducing end to produce maltotetraose has been determined by X-ray structure analysis. The catalytic domain of this enzyme (G4-2), whose structure was determined, is a product of spontaneous limited proteolysis in culture broth. It has 429 amino acid residues and a molecular mass of 47,200, and crystallizes in ammonium sulfate solution at pH 7.5. The structure was elucidated by the multiple isomorphous replacement method and refined at 2.0 A resolution, resulting in a final R -factor of 0.178 for significant reflections with a root-mean-square deviation from ideality in bond distances of 0.013 A. The polypeptide chain of this molecule folds into three domains; the first with a (β/α) 8 barrel structure, the second with an excursed part from the first one, and the third with five-stranded antiparallel β-sheets. The active cleft is formed on the C-terminal side of the β-sheets in the (β/α) 8 barrel as in the known endo-type α-amylases. A histidine side-chain nitrogen ND1 is coordinated to one of the bound calcium ion. The recognition site of the non-reducing end of the amylose that determines exo-wise degradation is presumed to be at one end of this cleft where there is a disordered loop consisting of the 66th to 72nd residues, and a loop carrying an aspartic acid (Asp160). These structural features may be responsible for the binding of the non-reducing end of the substrate amylose.
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