scholarly journals Effect of Polar Amino Acid Residue Substitution by Site-Directed Mutagenesis in the N-terminal Domain of Pseudomonas sp. Phytase on Enzyme Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1104-1107
Author(s):  
Ga Hye Lee ◽  
Won Je Jang ◽  
Soyeong Kim ◽  
Yoonha Kim ◽  
In-Soo Kong
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Activity ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Residue ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Pseudomonas Sp ◽  
Polar Amino Acid ◽  
Terminal Domain ◽  
Residue Substitution

scholarly journals Regulation of N-linked core glycosylation: use of a site-directed mutagenesis approach to identify Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr sequons that are poor oligosaccharide acceptors

1997 ◽  
Vol 323 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi KASTURI ◽  
Hegang CHEN ◽  
Susan H. SHAKIN-ESHLEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Residue ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Amino Acid Residues ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
A Cell ◽  
And Function ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact

N-linked glycosylation can profoundly affect protein expression and function. N-linked glycosylation usually occurs at the sequon Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr, where Xaa is any amino acid residue except Pro. However, many Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr sequons are glycosylated inefficiently or not at all for reasons that are poorly understood. We have used a site-directed mutagenesis approach to examine how the Xaa and hydroxy (Ser/Thr) amino acid residues in sequons influence core-glycosylation efficiency. We recently demonstrated that certain Xaa amino acids inhibit core glycosylation of the sequon, Asn37-Xaa-Ser, in rabies virus glycoprotein (RGP). Here we examine the impact of different Xaa residues on core-glycosylation efficiency when the Ser residue in this sequon is replaced with Thr. The core-glycosylation efficiencies of RGP variants with different Asn37-Xaa-Ser/Thr sequons were compared by using a cell-free translation/glycosylation system. Using this approach we confirm that four Asn-Xaa-Ser sequons are poor oligosaccharide acceptors: Asn-Trp-Ser, Asn-Asp-Ser, Asn-Glu-Ser and Asn-Leu-Ser. In contrast, Asn-Xaa-Thr sequons are efficiently glycosylated, even when Xaa = Trp, Asp, Glu or Leu. A comparison of the glycosylation status of Asn-Xaa-Ser and Asn-Xaa-Thr sequons in other glycoproteins confirms that sequons with Xaa = Trp, Asp, Glu or Leu are rarely glycosylated when Ser is the hydroxy amino acid residue, and that these sequons are unlikely to serve as glycosylation sites when introduced into proteins by site-directed mutagenesis.

Site-directed mutagenesis studies of the amino acid residue at position 412 of Escherichia coli TolC which is required for the activity

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyasu Yamanaka ◽  
Tomohiko Nomura ◽  
Naoyuki Morisada ◽  
Sumio Shinoda ◽  
Keinosuke Okamoto
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Residue ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Directed Mutagenesis

scholarly journals Site-directed mutagenesis of the leech-derived factor Xa inhibitor antistasin. Probing of the reactive site

1992 ◽  
Vol 287 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
K J Hofmann ◽  
E M Nutt ◽  
C T Dunwiddie
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Proteinase Inhibitors ◽  
Expression System ◽  
Factor Xa ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Arginine Residue ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Reactive Site ◽  
Terminal Domain

Antistasin (ATS) is a leech-derived 119-amino-acid protein which exhibits potent and highly selective inhibition of coagulation Factor Xa. It inhibits Factor Xa according to a common mechanism of serine-proteinase inhibitors in which a conformationally rigid substrate-like reactive site is presented to the enzyme. In this study a recombinant version of ATS was expressed and purified utilizing a yeast expression system in order to probe the reactive site P1 (Arg-34) and P1′ (Val-35) residues by site-directed mutagenesis. The results demonstrate the requirement for a positively charged residue in the P1 position of ATS, with an arginine residue preferred over a lysine, yielding K1 values of 61 pM and 1.28 nM respectively. Mutation of the P1 arginine residue to the non-polar amino acid leucine abolished its inhibitory potency toward Factor Xa. The role of the C-terminal domain of ATS, which shares significant amino acid sequence identity with the N-terminal domain, was investigated by creating a second reactive site in the corresponding position of the C-terminal domain. The inhibitory activity of this mutant demonstrated that the C-terminal domain of ATS is not folded into the proper conformation necessary to create a functional inhibitory domain.

scholarly journals Interrogating the Role of the Two Distinct Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolases of Bacillus methanolicus by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Key Amino Acids and Gene Repression by CRISPR Interference

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Schultenkämper ◽  
Desirée D. Gütle ◽  
Marina Gil López ◽  
Laura B. Keller ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Residue ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Kinetic Properties ◽  
Fructose Bisphosphate ◽  
Crispr Interference ◽  
Bacillus Methanolicus ◽  
Glycolytic Aldolase ◽  
Rna Levels

The Gram-positive Bacillus methanolicus shows plasmid-dependent methylotrophy. This facultative ribulose monophosphate (RuMP) cycle methylotroph possesses two fructose bisphosphate aldolases (FBA) with distinct kinetic properties. The chromosomally encoded FBAC is the major glycolytic aldolase. The gene for the major gluconeogenic aldolase FBAP is found on the natural plasmid pBM19 and is induced during methylotrophic growth. The crystal structures of both enzymes were solved at 2.2 Å and 2.0 Å, respectively, and they suggested amino acid residue 51 to be crucial for binding fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) as substrate and amino acid residue 140 for active site zinc atom coordination. As FBAC and FBAP differed at these positions, site-directed mutagenesis (SDM) was performed to exchange one or both amino acid residues of the respective proteins. The aldol cleavage reaction was negatively affected by the amino acid exchanges that led to a complete loss of glycolytic activity of FBAP. However, both FBAC and FBAP maintained gluconeogenic aldol condensation activity, and the amino acid exchanges improved the catalytic efficiency of the major glycolytic aldolase FBAC in gluconeogenic direction at least 3-fold. These results confirmed the importance of the structural differences between FBAC and FBAP concerning their distinct enzymatic properties. In order to investigate the physiological roles of both aldolases, the expression of their genes was repressed individually by CRISPR interference (CRISPRi). The fbaC RNA levels were reduced by CRISPRi, but concomitantly the fbaP RNA levels were increased. Vice versa, a similar compensatory increase of the fbaC RNA levels was observed when fbaP was repressed by CRISPRi. In addition, targeting fbaP decreased tktP RNA levels since both genes are cotranscribed in a bicistronic operon. However, reduced tktP RNA levels were not compensated for by increased RNA levels of the chromosomal transketolase gene tktC.

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