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ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
卷 70, 期 -, 页码 932-942出版社
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S1399004713033841
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资金
- National Key Project for Basic Research [2010CB126100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31070715, 31101671, 61202252]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2011AA10A204]
- Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol at Sun Yat-Sen University [SKLBC13KF01]
- National Key Technology RD Program [2011BAE06B05]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20120041120052]
Insects possess a greater number of chitinases than any other organisms. This work is the first report of unliganded and oligosaccharide-complexed crystal structures of the insect chitinase OfChtI from Ostrinia furnacalis, which is essential to moulting. The obtained crystal structures were solved at resolutions between 1.7 and 2.2 angstrom. A structural comparison with other chitinases revealed that OfChtI contains a long substrate-binding cleft similar to the bacterial chitinase SmChiB from Serratia marcescens. However, unlike the exo-acting SmChiB, which has a blocked and tunnel-like cleft, OfChtI possesses an open and groove-like cleft. The complexed structure of the catalytic domain of OfChtI (OfChtI-CAD) with (GlcNAc) 2/3 indicates that the reducing sugar at subsite -1 is in an energetically unfavoured ` boat' conformation, a state that possibly exists just before the completion of catalysis. Because OfChtI is known to act from nonreducing ends, (GlcNAc)(3) would be a hydrolysis product of (GlcNAc)(6), suggesting that OfChtI possesses an endo enzymatic activity. Furthermore, a hydrophobic plane composed of four surface-exposed aromatic residues is adjacent to the entrance to the substrate-binding cleft. Mutations of these residues greatly impair the chitin-binding activity, indicating that this hydrophobic plane endows OfChtI-CAD with the ability to anchor chitin. This work reveals the unique structural characteristics of an insect chitinase.
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