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A single amino acid mutation enhances the thermal stability of Escherichia coli malate dehydrogenase.
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European journal of biochemistry [Eur J Biochem] 1994 Aug 15; Vol. 224 (1), pp. 249-55. - Publication Year :
- 1994
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Abstract
- The stability of wild-type Escherichia coli malate dehydrogenase was compared with a mutant form of the enzyme with the amino acid residue at position 102 changed from arginine to glutamine. The mutation occurs on the underside of a mobile loop which closes over the active-site cleft on formation of the enzyme/cofactor/substrate ternary complex. The mutant enzyme is kinetically compromised while the wild-type enzyme is highly specific for oxaloacetate. The mutant enzyme was shown to be more resistant to irreversible thermal denaturation by thermal inactivation experiments and high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry than the wild-type enzyme. In contrast, resistance of both enzymes to reversible unfolding in guanidinium chloride was similar. Circular dichroic spectropolarimetry shows the secondary structures of the enzymes are similar but there is a demonstrable difference in tertiary structure. From the position of the mutation, it is conjectured that the substitution on a mobile surface loop results in partial closure of the loop and greater resistance to thermal inactivation of the mutant enzyme. However, molecular modelling combined with circular dichroic spectropolarimetry indicate that the mutation may have a more widespread effect on the structure than simply partial closure of the mobile surface loop as the environment of distant tyrosine residues is altered. Resistance of the wild-type enzyme to thermal inactivation can be increased by cofactor addition, which may have the effect of partial closure of the mobile surface loop, but has little effect on the mutant enzyme.
- Subjects :
- Arginine chemistry
Base Sequence
Calorimetry, Differential Scanning
Circular Dichroism
Glutamine chemistry
Malate Dehydrogenase genetics
Malate Dehydrogenase isolation & purification
Malate Dehydrogenase metabolism
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
Mutation
Substrate Specificity
Temperature
Escherichia coli enzymology
Malate Dehydrogenase chemistry
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0014-2956
- Volume :
- 224
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- European journal of biochemistry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8076646
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb20018.x