Evidence for essential arginine residues at the active sites of maize branching enzymes |
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Authors: | Heping Cao and Jack Preiss |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, 48824 East Lansing, Michigan;(2) Present address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, 79409 Lubbock, Texas |
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Abstract: | Alignment of 23 branching enzyme (BE) amino acid sequences from various species showed conservation of two arginine residues. Phenylglyoxal (PGO) was used to investigate the involvement of arginine residues of maize BEI and BEII in catalysis. BE was significantly inactivated by PGO in triethanolamine buffer at pH 8.5. The inactivation followed a time- and concentration-dependent manner and showed pseudo first-order kinetics. Slopes of 0.73 (BEI) and 1.05 (BEII) were obtained from double log plots of the observed rates of inactivation against the concentrations of PGO, suggesting that loss of BE activity results from as few as one arginine residue modified by PGO. BE inactivation was positively correlated with 14C]PGO incorporation into BE protein and was considerably protected by amylose and/or amylopectin, suggesting that the modified arginine residue may be involved in substrate binding or located near the substrate-binding sites of maize branching enzymes I and II.Abbreviations BE
branching enzyme
- BCA
bicinchoninic acid
- BSA
bovine serum albumin
- Glc-1-P
glucose-1-phosphate
- IPTG
isopropyl-d-thiogalactoside
- PGO
phenylglyoxal
- PMSF
phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride
- SDS-PAGE
sodium docecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- TCA
trichloroacetic acid
- TEA
triethanolamine |
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