Catalytic metal ion rearrangements underline promiscuity and evolvability of a metalloenzyme.
Ben-David, M., Wieczorek, G., Elias, M., Silman, I., Sussman, J.L., Tawfik, D.S.(2013) J Mol Biol 425: 1028-1038
- PubMed: 23318950 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.01.009
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4HHO, 4HHQ - PubMed Abstract: 
Although largely deemed as structurally conserved, catalytic metal ion sites can rearrange, thereby contributing to enzyme evolvability. Here, we show that in paraoxonase-1, a lipo-lactonase, catalytic promiscuity and divergence into an organophosphate hydrolase are correlated with an alternative mode of the catalytic Ca(2+) ...