“…If Hish143, Asph335, and K + are assumed to constitute the only site for dehydration, the oxygen atom derived from C-1 in the S-and R-isomers would be retained in the product and lost into the solvent, respectively. Hence, the pseudo symmetry of the substrate binding site of diol dehydratase accounts for the unusual stereospecificity [27,[110][111][112], stereochemical course [25,27,28], and substrate specificity [10,113].…”