Volume 35, Number 2, 511-512, DOI: 10.1007/s00726-008-0638-0

Comment on “Cleavage mechanism of the H5N1 hemagglutinin by trypsin and furin” [Amino Acids 2008, January 31, Doi: 10.1007/s00726-007-0611-3]

T. Rungrotmongkol, P. Decha, M. Malaisree, P. Sompornpisut and S. Hannongbua

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Abstract

Recently, Guo et al. have reported structural as well as the binding energy data of the particular interactions between the cleavage sites of hemagglutinin and serine proteases, trypsin and furin, using molecular docking approach. Due to a wrong assignment of protonation state on the histidine, one of the catalytic triad in the active site of both enzymes, their docking results are contradictory with the fundamental principle and previous theoretical studies of the known cleavage mechanism in serine proteases.

Keywords: Catalytic triad – Cleavage mechanism – Serine proteases – Trypsin – Furin

Authors’ address: S. Hannongbua, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Patumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

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