Arginyl residues: anion recognition sites in enzymes.
Chemical modification with 2,3-butanedione in borate buffer indicates that nine of ten glycolytic enzymes studied contain arginyl residues at their active sites. Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase also has arginines at its binding site for the allosteric inhibitor, adenosine monophosphate. These and other data suggest that, as a general rule, enzymes acting on anionic substrates or cofactors will probably contain arginyl residues as components of their ligand binding sites. This could account in part for the relatively infrequent occurrence of arginine in proteins.[1]References
- Arginyl residues: anion recognition sites in enzymes. Riordan, J.F., McElvany, K.D., Borders, C.L. Science (1977) [Pubmed]
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