Dissociation and reconstitution of bovine seminal RNAase: Construction of a hyperactive hybrid dimer |
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Authors: | Maurizio Tamburrini Renata Piccoli Delia Picone Alberto Di Donato Giuseppe D'Alessio |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry, University of Naples, Naples, Italy;(2) Present address: Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology, Via Marconi 10, 80125 Napoli, Italy;(3) Present address: Department of Chemistry, Via Mezzocannone, 4, 80134 Napoli, Italy;(4) Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80134 Napoli, Italy |
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Abstract: | The quaternary structure of bovine seminal ribonuclease, the only dimeric protein in the superfamily of ribonucleases, is maintained both by noncovalent forces and by two intersubunit disulfides. The available monomeric derivatives of the enzyme may not be reassembled into dimers. They are catalytically active, but do not retain certain properties of the dimeric enzyme, such as: (i) the ability to respond cooperatively to increasing substrate concentrations in the rate-limiting reaction step; and (ii) the antitumor and immunosuppressive actions. In this report we describe the preparation of stable monomers of seminal ribonuclease which can be reassociated into covalent dimers indistinguishable from the native protein. With this procedure a hybrid dimer was constructed, made up of a native subunit associated to a subunit catalytically inactivated by selective alkylation of the active site His-119. This dimer was found to have enzymic properties typical of monomeric ribonucleases, such as a hyperbolic saturation curve in the hydrolytic rate-limiting step of the reaction. However, the hybrid dimer was one order-of-magnitude more active than the dimeric enzyme. |
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Keywords: | ribonuclease protein engineering mixed disulfides quaternary structure |
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