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SUBMITTER: Hemrika W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC20055 | biostudies-literature | 1997 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hemrika W W Renirie R R Dekker H L HL Barnett P P Wever R R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19970301 6
We show here that the amino acid residues contributing to the active sites of the vanadate containing haloperoxidases are conserved within three families of acid phosphatases; this suggests that the active sites of these enzymes are very similar. This is confirmed by activity measurements showing that apochloroperoxidase exhibits phosphatase activity. These observations not only reveal interesting evolutionary relationships between these groups of enzymes but may also have important implications ...[more]