... littlecorrespondence in the amino acids that are involved in the recognition of the functional groups of the ligands.Moreover, in GGT the a-carboxyl group of the gluta-mate protrudes into the groove, whereas in ... present in most other GGTs at the C-terminal region of the L-subunit. In E. coli GGT, upon autocatalytic cleavage of the peptide bond on the N-terminal side of Thr391, the C-terminal segment of the ... mostly of high quality and continuous, the densi-ties for the N-terminal His-tag segment and resi-dues 396–402, corresponding to the C-terminus of the L-subunit, were poorly defined; therefore, these...