Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
71193 Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic 2006 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Saturation–transfer–difference NMR spectroscopy (STD NMR) is used to delineate noncovalent enzyme–substrate interactions of β-glycosidases from Pyrococcus furiosus and Aspergillus fumigatus under binding-only conditions at low temperatures, and during catalysis. Glucopyranosyl and galactopyranosyl moieties display a distinct pattern of multiple contacts with each active site, revealing enzyme-specific elements of recognition and portraying the global binding effect caused by single-site modification of the substrate, at carbon 4. The glucopyranose leaving group of cellobiose or lactose shows small relative STD effects except for the anomeric carbon, particularly in the α-form. Its replacement in β-glucosides by an alcohol leaving group strongly affects sugar binding in the proximal enzyme subsite. A combination of STD effects of substrate and product, produced by the catalytic event or added exogenously, characterizes subsite binding during cellobiose hydrolysis.

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