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Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of human bile salt activated lipase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2000

SIMON TERZYAN
Affiliation:
Crystallography Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
CHI-SUN WANG
Affiliation:
Protein Studies Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
DEBORAH DOWNS
Affiliation:
Protein Studies Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
BRET HUNTER
Affiliation:
Crystallography Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
XUEJUN C. ZHANG
Affiliation:
Crystallography Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
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Abstract

Bile-salt activated lipase (BAL) is a pancreatic enzyme that digests a variety of lipids in the small intestine. A distinct property of BAL is its dependency on bile salts in hydrolyzing substrates of long acyl chains or bulky alcoholic motifs. A crystal structure of the catalytic domain of human BAL (residues 1–538) with two surface mutations (N186D and A298D), which were introduced in attempting to facilitate crystallization, has been determined at 2.3 Å resolution. The crystal form belongs to space group P212121 with one monomer per asymmetric unit, and the protein shows an α/β hydrolase fold. In the absence of bound bile salt molecules, the protein possesses a preformed catalytic triad and a functional oxyanion hole. Several surface loops around the active site are mobile, including two loops potentially involved in substrate binding (residues 115–125 and 270–285).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2000 The Protein Society

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