Mangel W F, Toledo D L, Ding J, Sweet R M, McGrath W J
Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Trends Biochem Sci. 1997 Oct;22(10):393-8. doi: 10.1016/s0968-0004(97)01123-7.
The adenovirus proteinase (AVP) uses both an 11-amino acid peptide (pVIc) and the viral DNA as cofactors to increase its catalytic rate constant 6000-fold. The crystal structure of an AVP-pVIc complex at 2.6-A resolution reveals a new protein fold of an enzyme that is the first member of a new class of cysteine proteinases, which arose via convergent evolution.