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X-ray structures of aspartate transcarbamoylase in the absence and presence of the first substrate carbamoyl phosphate are reported. These two structures in conjunction with in silico docking experiments provide snapshots of critical events in the function of the enzyme. The ordered substrate binding, observed experimentally, can now be structurally explained by a conformational change induced upon the binding of carbamoyl phosphate. This induced fit dramatically alters the electrostatics of the active site, creating a binding pocket for aspartate. Upon aspartate binding, a further change in electrostatics causes a second induced fit, the domain closure. This domain closure acts as a clamp that both facilitates catalysis by approximation and also initiates the global conformational change that manifests homotropic cooperativity.

1ZA1 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_complex Protein complex] structure of sequences from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli] with <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=CTP:'>CTP</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartate_carbamoyltransferase Aspartate carbamoyltransferase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=2.1.3.2 2.1.3.2] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1ZA1 OCA].  

[[Category: Cardia, J P.]]

[[Category: Kantrowitz, E R.]]

[[Category: Stieglitz, K A.]]

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