کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1178907 962739 2010 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Coupling effects of distal loops on structural stability and enzymatic activity of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase revealed by deletion mutants
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه شیمی شیمی آنالیزی یا شیمی تجزیه
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Coupling effects of distal loops on structural stability and enzymatic activity of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase revealed by deletion mutants
چکیده انگلیسی

Residues distal from the active site in dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) have regulatory roles in catalytic reaction and also folding stability. The couplings of the distal residues to the ones in the active site have been analyzed using site-directed mutants. To expand our understanding of the structural and functional influences of distal residue mutation, we explored the structural stability and enzymatic activity of deletion mutants. Deletion has greater structural and dynamical impacts on the corresponding part than site-directed mutation does. Thus, deletion amplifies the effects caused by distal mutations, which should make the mutual couplings among the distant residues more apparent. We focused on residues 52, 67, 121, and 145 in the four distinct loops of DHFR. All the single-residue deletion mutants showed marked reduction in stability, except for Δ52 in an αC–βC loop. Double deletion mutants showed that the loop αC–βC has nonadditive couplings with the βF–βG and βG–βH loops regarding stability. Single deletion to the loops αC–βC or βC–βD resulted in considerable activity reduction, demonstrating that the loops couple to the residues near the active site. The four loops were shown to be functionally interdependent from the double deletion experiments.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics - Volume 1804, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 846–855
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