Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (12): 208-217.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2020-0459

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Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of Bacterial Urease Protein

HE Yue1(), ZHAO Sheng-guo1, ZHANG Xiao-yin1,2, ZHENG Nan1, WANG Jia-qi1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition,Institute of Animal Sciences,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100193
    2. College of Animal Science and Technology,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430070
  • Received:2020-04-21 Online:2020-12-26 Published:2020-12-22

Abstract:

Bacterial urease catalyzes the efficient decomposition of urea to produce ammonia;however,high activity of urease has negative influence on human healthy,agriculture,environment,and so on. It is of great scientific significance to research characteristics of bacterial urease and study how to inhibit urease activity. With the rapid development of molecular and structural biology,more and more structures of urease have been analyzed,and the regulation mechanism of urease activity has been improved constantly,which mark a new stage of urease protein research. This review summarizes the crystal structure and active center characteristics of bacterial urease,catalytic mechanism,mechanism of urease inhibitors,in order to provide some references to urease regulation research.

Key words: bacterial urease, structural protein, crystal structure, inhibition mechanism