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November 30, 2025Biochemistry

Distal Mutations Rewire Allosteric Networks to Control Substrate Specificity in PTP1B

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XWXiaoyuan WangRARyan M. AndersonJLJinchan Liu

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Overview

Analysis demonstrates that distal mutations impact catalytic efficiency in PTP1B, suggesting new insights into allosteric regulation.

Key Points

  • Allosteric mutations disrupt substrate specificity and alter enzyme dynamics, affecting catalytic efficiency.
  • Kinetic analyses showed changes in catalytic efficiency, with notable shifts from wild-type behavior.
  • Investigation utilized molecular dynamics simulations to explore structural impacts of mutations on PTP1B.
  • Findings indicate that understanding allosteric regulation can enhance strategies to modulate phosphatase activity.

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Wang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692b9d7b1d383f2b2a3793behttps://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5c00539
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