A Histidine-Independent Route to ATP Formation (IMAGE)

Waseda University

A Histidine-Independent Route to ATP Formation

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Structural modeling suggests that aspartate, arginine, and Mg²⁺ may support ATP formation from two ADP molecules in the engineered ancestral enzyme Arc1-12KR.

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Professor Satoshi Akanuma from Waseda University, Japan

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