PMID-sentid Pub_year Sent_text comp_official_name comp_offsetprotein_name organism prot_offset 20568751-4 2010 Instead, our results indicated that HDAC8 employs a proton-shuttle catalytic mechanism, in which a neutral His143 first serves as the general base to accept a proton from the zinc-bound water molecule in the initial rate-determining nucleophilic attack step, and then shuttles it to the amide nitrogen atom to facilitate the cleavage of the amide bond. Amides 287-292 histone deacetylase 8 Homo sapiens 36-41 20568751-4 2010 Instead, our results indicated that HDAC8 employs a proton-shuttle catalytic mechanism, in which a neutral His143 first serves as the general base to accept a proton from the zinc-bound water molecule in the initial rate-determining nucleophilic attack step, and then shuttles it to the amide nitrogen atom to facilitate the cleavage of the amide bond. Amides 341-346 histone deacetylase 8 Homo sapiens 36-41