Site-directed mutagenesis to determine essential residues of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase ofRhodospirillum rubrum |
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Authors: | Salil K. Niyogi Thomas S. Soper Robert S. Foote Frank W. Larimer Richard J. Mural Sankar Mitra Eva H. Lee Richard Machanoff Fred C. Hartman |
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Affiliation: | (1) The Protein Engineering and Molecular Mutagenesis Program of the Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 37831 Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA |
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Abstract: | Both Lys-166 and His-291 of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase fromRhodospirillum rubrum have been implicated as the active-site residue that initiates catalysis. To decide between these two candidates, we resorted to site-directed mutagenesis to replace Lys-166 and His-291 with several amino acids. All 7 of the position-166 mutants tested are severely deficient in carboxylase activity, whereas the alanine and serine mutants at position 291 are ∼40% and ∼18% as active as the native carboxylase, essentially ruling out His-291 in theRhodospirillum rubrum carboxylase (and by inference His-298 in the spinach enzyme) as a catalytically essential residue. The ability of some of the mutant proteins to undergo carbamate formation or to bind either ribulosebisphosphate or a transition-state analogue remains largely unimpaired. This implies that Lys-166 is not required for substrate binding; rather, the results corroborate the earlier postulate that Lys-166 functions as an acid-base group in catalysis or in stabilizing a transition state in the reaction pathway. |
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Keywords: | 203-214Ribulose-P2 carboxylase site-directed mutagenesis essentiality of Lys-166 non-essentiality of His-291 |
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