... 2977 Substrate positioning by His92 is important in catalysis by purple acid phosphatase Enrico G. Funhoff1,4, Yunling Wang2, Goran Andersson2and Bruce A. Averill1,31 Swammerdam Institute ... imidazole group of His92. The large (15- to 30-fold) increase in KMobservedfor His92Ala-recRPAP suggests that this residue is involved in substrate binding in PAPs. In principle,however, an ... role of His92 in the catalytic mechanism is unknown. Site-directed mutagenesis of His92 was performed to examine the role of this residue in single polypep-tide PAP. Conversion of His92 into Ala,...