Structural basis for divergent and convergent evolution of catalytic machineries in plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylase proteins.
Torrens-Spence, M.P., Chiang, Y.C., Smith, T., Vicent, M.A., Wang, Y., Weng, J.K.(2020) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117: 10806-10817
- PubMed: 32371491 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920097117
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6EEI, 6EEM, 6EEQ, 6EEW - PubMed Abstract: 
Radiation of the plant pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase (AAAD) family has yielded an array of paralogous enzymes exhibiting divergent substrate preferences and catalytic mechanisms. Plant AAADs catalyze either the decarboxylation or decarboxylation-dependent oxidative deamination of aromatic l-amino acids to produce aromatic monoamines or aromatic acetaldehydes, respectively ...