Conformation of threo-alpha-cycloglutamic acid and pyridoxal-5'-phosphate aldimine in the active site of aspartate aminotransferase
Tumanian, V.G.; Shliapnikov, S.V.; Severin, E.S.
Molekuliarnaia Biologiia 14(3): 632-639
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-8984 PMID: 7402205 Document Number: 156872
The theoretical conformational analysis of the pyridoxal-5'-phosphate aldimine complex with a substrate analogue--threo-alpha-cycloglutamic acid has been carried out. The calculation method used takes into account the possibility of hydrogen bonding between a carboxyl group of the substrate and the phosphate moiety of the cofactor. The conformational properties and geometrical parameters of the lowest energy structures are discussed. It is shown that of the three conformations permitted for the productive enzyme--substrate complex formations only one is electrostatically favourable.