Relative Significance of Electrostatic- and Hydrophobic-Induced pKa Shifts in a Model Protein: The Aspartic Acid Residue

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1440-1442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan W. Urry ◽  
Shao Q. Peng ◽  
Timothy M. Parker ◽  
D. Channe Gowda ◽  
Roland D. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
Model Protein ◽  
Pka Shifts

scholarly journals Capsid assembly in a family of animal viruses primes an autoproteolytic maturation that depends on a single aspartic acid residue.

1994 ◽  
Vol 269 (18) ◽  
pp. 13680-13684
Author(s):  
A. Zlotnick ◽  
V.S. Reddy ◽  
R. Dasgupta ◽  
A. Schneemann ◽  
W.J. Ray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Capsid Assembly ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue

scholarly journals Conversion of secretory proteins into membrane proteins by fusing with a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor signal of alkaline phosphatase

1994 ◽  
Vol 301 (2) ◽  
pp. 577-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Oda ◽  
J Cheng ◽  
T Saku ◽  
N Takami ◽  
M Sohda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Chimeric Protein ◽  
Attachment Site ◽  
In Vitro Translation ◽  
Placental Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue

Placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) is initially synthesized as a precursor (proPLAP) with a C-terminal extension. We constructed a recombinant cDNA which encodes a chimeric protein (alpha GL-PLAP) comprising rat alpha 2u-globulin (alpha GL) and the C-terminal extension of PLAP. Two molecular species (25 kDa and 22 kDa) were expressed in the COS-1 cell transfected with the cDNA for alpha GL-PLAP. Only the 22 kDa form was labelled with both [3H]stearic acid and [3H]ethanolamine. Upon digestion with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C the 22 kDa form was released into the medium, indicating that this form is anchored on the cell surface via glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI). A specific IgG raised against a C-terminal nonapeptide of proPLAP precipitated the 25 kDa form but not the 22 kDa form, suggesting that the 25 kDa form is a precursor retaining the C-terminal propeptide. When a mutant alpha GL-PLAP, in which the aspartic acid residue is replaced with tryptophan at a putative cleavage/attachment site, was expressed in COS-1 cells, the 25 kDa precursor was the only form found inside the cell and retained in the endoplasmic reticulum, as judged by immunofluorescence microscopy. In vitro translation programmed with mRNAs coding for the wild-type and mutant forms of alpha GL-PLAP demonstrated that the C-terminal propeptide was cleaved from the wild-type chimeric protein, but not from the mutant one. This gave rise to the 22 kDa form attached with a GPI anchor, suggesting that GPI is covalently linked to the aspartic acid residue (Asp159) of alpha GL-PLAP. Taken together, these results indicate that the C-terminal propeptide of PLAP functions as a signal to render alpha GL a GPI-linked membrane protein in vitro and in vivo in cultured cells, and that the chimeric protein constructed in this study may be useful for elucidating the mechanism underlying the cleavage of the propeptide and attachment of GPI, which occur in the endoplasmic reticulum.

Stability of oxidized Escherichia coli thioredoxin and its dependence on protonation of the aspartic acid residue in the 26 position

Biochemistry ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (29) ◽  
pp. 7526-7530 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Ladbury ◽  
Richard Wynn ◽  
Homme W. Hellinga ◽  
Julian M. Sturtevant
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue

scholarly journals Site-directed mutagenesis of dicarboxylic acids near the active site of Bacillus cereus 5/B/6 β-lactamase II

1991 ◽  
Vol 276 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
H M Lim ◽  
R K Iyer ◽  
J J Pène
Keyword(s):  
Bacillus Cereus ◽  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Carboxy Group ◽  
Active Site ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Beta Lactamase ◽  
Beta Lactam ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue ◽  
Beta Lactamase Ii

An amino acid residue functioning as a general base has been proposed to assist in the hydrolysis of beta-lactam antibiotics by the zinc-containing Bacillus cereus beta-lactamase II [Bicknell & Waley (1985) Biochemistry 24, 6876-6887]. Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis of cloned Bacillus cereus 5/B/6 beta-lactamase II was used in an ‘in vivo’ study to investigate the role of carboxy-group-containing amino acids near the active site of the enzyme. Substitution of asparagine for the wild-type aspartic acid residue at position 81 resulted in fully functional enzyme. An aspartic acid residue at position 90 is essential for beta-lactamase II to confer any detectable ampicillin and cephalosporin C resistance to Escherichia coli. Conversion of Asp90 into Asn90 or Glu90 lead to the synthesis of inactive enzyme, suggesting that the spatial position of the beta-carboxy group of Asp90 is critical for enzyme function.

scholarly journals An aspartic acid residue at the active site of pepsin. The isolation and sequence of the heptapeptide

1969 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Bayliss ◽  
J. R. Knowles ◽  
Grith B. Wybrandt
Keyword(s):  
Methyl Ester ◽  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Active Site ◽  
Irreversible Inhibitor ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue ◽  
Phenylalanine Methyl Ester

Pepsin reacts stoicheiometrically with the active-site-directed irreversible inhibitor N-diazoacetyl-l-phenylalanine methyl ester, with concomitant loss of all proteolytic and peptidolytic activity. The reagent esterifies a unique aspartic acid residue in pepsin, which is in the sequence:Ile-Val-Asp-Thr-Gly-Thr-Ser

scholarly journals Intracellular coupling of bikunin and the heavy chain of rat pre-α-inhibitor in COS-1 cells

1997 ◽  
Vol 328 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Anna BLOM ◽  
Maria THUVESON ◽  
Erik FRIES
Keyword(s):  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Serum Protein ◽  
Heavy Chain ◽  
Golgi Complex ◽  
Intracellular Transport ◽  
Chondroitin Sulphate ◽  
Ester Bond ◽  
Aspartic Acid Residue ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Chondroitin Sulphate Chain

Pre-α-inhibitor is a serum protein consisting of two polypeptides: bikunin of 16 kDa, which carries an 8 kDa chondroitin sulphate chain, and heavy chain 3 (H3) of 74 kDa. The two polypeptides are linked through an ester bond between an internal N-acetylgalactosamine residue of the chondroitin sulphate chain and the C-terminal aspartic acid residue of H3. Both bikunin and H3 are synthesized by hepatocytes and become linked as they pass through the Golgi complex. H3 is synthesized with both N- and C-terminal extensions which are released during intracellular transport. To be able to analyse the assembly of pre-α-inhibitor in detail, we have cloned and sequenced the cDNA of rat H3. Upon expression of the protein in COS-1 cells, both propeptides were found to be released. Furthermore, co-expression of H3 and bikunin resulted in the two polypeptides becoming coupled, indicating that cells other than hepatocytes may have the capacity to form chondroitin sulphate-containing links.

Nanometric design of extraordinary hydrophobic-induced pKa shifts for aspartic acid: Relevance to protein mechanisms

Biopolymers ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 889-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan W. Urry ◽  
D. Channe Gowda ◽  
Shaoqing Peng ◽  
Timothy M. Parker ◽  
Naijie Jing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aspartic Acid ◽  
Pka Shifts
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