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Oxyanion hole of a serine protease (black) stabilises negative charge build-up on the transition state of the substrate (red) using hydrogen bonds from enzyme's backbone amides (blue).


An oxyanion hole is a pocket in the active site of an enzyme that stabilizes transition state negative charge on a deprotonated oxygen or alkoxide.[1] The pocket typically consists of backbone amides or positively charged residues. Stabilising the transition state lowers the activation energy necessary for the reaction, and so promotes catalysis.[2] For example, proteases such as chymotrypsin contain an oxyanion hole to stabilise the tetrahedral intermediate anion formed during proteolysis and protects substrate's negatively charged oxygen from water molecules.[3] Additionally, it may allow for insertion or positioning of a substrate, which would suffer from steric hindrance if it could not occupy the hole (such as BPG in hemoglobin). Enzymes that catalyse multi-step reactions can have multiple oxyanion holes that stabilise different transition states in the reaction.[4]



See also[edit]



  • Enzyme catalysis

  • Active site

  • Transition state

  • Serine proteases#Catalytic mechanism



References[edit]





  1. ^ Stryer L, Berg JM, Tymoczko JL (2002). "9 Catalytic Strategies". Biochemistry (5th ed.). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-4955-6..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Simón, Luis; Goodman, Jonathan M. (March 19, 2010). "Enzyme Catalysis by Hydrogen Bonds: The Balance between Transition State Binding and Substrate Binding in Oxyanion Holes". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 75 (6): 1831–1840. doi:10.1021/jo901503d. ISSN 0022-3263. PMID 20039621.


  3. ^ "Oxyanion Hole Interactions in Serine and Cysteine Proteases : Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler".


  4. ^ Kursula, Petri; Ojala, Juha; Lambeir, Anne-Marie; Wierenga, Rik K. (December 1, 2002). "The Catalytic Cycle of Biosynthetic Thiolase:  A Conformational Journey of an Acetyl Group through Four Binding Modes and Two Oxyanion Holes‡". Biochemistry. 41 (52): 15543–15556. doi:10.1021/bi0266232. ISSN 0006-2960.




  • Albert Lehninger; et al. (2008). Principles of Biochemistry (5th ed.). Macmillan. p. 207.










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