Crystallographic analysis of structure and function of cyclophilin enzymes and study of inclusion compounds of natural products in cyclodextrins
Abstract
In this thesis the X-ray crystallographic analysis of large and medium-small size biomolecules and their complexes is presented. The aim of the first part is the crystal structure determination of the cytoplasmic cyclophilin-A from Azotobacter vinelandii (AvCyPA or AvPPIB) bacterium. Cyclophilins catalyze the cis-trans isomerization of peptide bonds preceding proline residues of protein substrates. The crystal structure of AvCyPA was determined at 2.2 Å resolution. In addition, the crystal structure of the enzyme complexed with the synthetic tetrapeptide succinyl-Ala-Phe-Pro-Phe-p-nitroanilide was determined at 2.0 Å resolution and shows that the tetrapeptide proline adopts a cis-isomer conformation. Morever, we designed point mutants by changing aminoacids that are located outside from the active site of the enzyme in order to examine the influence of such a substitution on the overall dynamic structural network involved in catalysis. The AvPPIBA84S, AvPPIBA84T and AvPPIBM49A mutants ...
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