Structure of the S.coelicolor A3(2) N-acetylhexosaminidase provides insight into GH20 catalysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
β-N-acetylhexosaminidases (HEX - EC 3.2.1.52) are glycosidases that catalyze the glycosidic linkage hydrolysis of gluco- and galacto-configurations of N-acetyl-β-D-hexosaminides. These enzymes have shown considerable interest due to their importance in human physiology and their potential use for the enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates and glycomymetics. HEX can cleave the β-1,4-glycosidic bonds of polymers with long saccharide chains, and utilize a double-displacement retaining mechanism with neighboring group participation to yield an oxazolinium intermediate. In this study, the three-dimensional structure of the wild-type and catalytically impaired E302Q HEX variant from the soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) (ScHEX-family GH20) were solved in ligand-free forms and in the presence of 6-acetamido-6-deoxy-castanospermine (6-Ac-Cas). The E302Q variant was also trapped as an intermediate with oxazoline bound to the active center. The complexed structures reveal an active pocket with multiple subsites packed with four Trp, providing a hydrophobic environment that forms a small active-site architecture suitable for holding polysaccharide chains and protecting the formed oxazolinium intermediate during catalysis. Crystallographic evidence highlights structural variations in the loop 3 environment, suggesting conformational heterogeneity for important active-site residues of this GH20 family member.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".