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A version of subtilisin BPN' lacking the high affinity calcium site (site A) has been produced through genetic engineering methods, and its crystal structure refined at 1.8 A resolution. This protein and the corresponding version containing the calcium A site are described and compared. The deletion of residues 75-83 was made in the context of four site-specific replacements previously shown to stabilize subtilisin. The helix that in wild type is interrupted by the calcium binding loop, is continuous in the deletion mutant, with normal geometry. A few residues adjacent to the loop, principally those that were involved in calcium coordination, are repositioned and/or destabilized by the deletion. Because refolding is greatly facilitated by the absence of the Ca-loop, this protein offers a new vehicle for analysis and dissection of the folding reaction. This is among the largest internal changes to a protein to be described at atomic resolution.

1SUC is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_amyloliquefaciens Bacillus amyloliquefaciens] with <scene name='pdbligand=K:'>K</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=CYA:'>CYA</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=ACN:'>ACN</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtilisin Subtilisin], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.4.21.62 3.4.21.62] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1SUC OCA].  

[[Category: Gilliland, G L.]]

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