Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease
Chitin, the second most abundant polysaccharide on earth, is degraded by chitinases and chitobiases. The structure of Serratia marcescens chitobiase has been refined at 1.9 A resolution. The mature protein is folded into four domains and its active site is situated at the C-terminal end of the centr...
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