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Gene Synthesis> | … 7, 2018; Page 7. Methods Site-Directed Mutagenesis The Plasmodium falciparum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) gene (gi#: 124513226) was synthesized and subcloned into pET-11b by GenScript (Piscataway, NJ) with a C-terminal 6xHis-Tag … | Get A Quote |
The malarial pathogen Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is a member of the Apicomplexa, which independently evolved a highly specific lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from an ancestral malate dehydrogenase (MDH) via a five-residue insertion in a key active site loop. PfLDH is widely considered an attractive drug target due to its unique active site. The conservation of the apicomplexan loop suggests that a precise insertion sequence was required to evolve LDH specificity. Aside from a single critical tryptophan, W107f, the functional and structural roles of residues in the loop are currently unknown. Here we show that the loop is remarkably robust to mutation, as activity is resilient to radical perturbations of bo... More