Searching Sequence Space: Two Different Approaches to Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis
- 6 April 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in ChemBioChem
- Vol. 6 (4) , 590-600
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.200400237
Abstract
There are numerous examples of proteins that catalyze the same reaction while possessing different structures. This review focuses on two dihydrofolate reductases (DHFRs) that have disparate structures and discusses how the catalytic strategies of these two DHFRs are driven by their respective scaffolds. The two proteins are E. coli chromosomal DHFR (Ec DHFR) and a type II R‐plasmid‐encoded DHFR, typified by R67 DHFR. The former has been described as a very well evolved enzyme with an efficiency of 0.15, while the latter has been suggested to be a model for a “primitive” enzyme that has not yet been optimized by evolution. This comparison underlines what is important to catalysis in these two enzymes and concurrently highlights fundamental issues in enzyme catalysis.Keywords
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