Hydrogen bonding of substrates to enzymes often involves the polypeptide backbone rather than amino acid side chains.

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Hydrogen bonding of substrates to enzymes often involves the polypeptide backbone rather than amino acid side chains. What backbone-substrate hydrogen bond helps distort NAM in the D subsite of lysozyme? Can this hydrogen bond form when N-acetylxylosamine is in the active site?
Hydrogen bonding of substrates to enzymes often involves the polypeptide
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Fundamentals of biochemistry Life at the Molecular Level

ISBN: 978-0470547847

4th edition

Authors: Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet, Charlotte W. Pratt

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