Structure and binding properties of hen lysozyme modified at tryptophan 62 |
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Authors: | CCF Blake R Cassels CM Dobson FM Poulsen RJP Williams KS Wilson |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Zoology South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, England;2. Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, England;3. Department of Chemistry, Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The structure of a derivative of hen egg-white lysozyme (EC 3.2.1.17) modified by N-bromosuccinimide at Trp62 has been studied by both 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. It was shown that this modification, changing the tryptophan residue to an oxindolealanine2 residue, only causes minor structural changes at the site of the modification, and that the overall structure of the native enzyme is maintained in the derivative. Both diastereomers of the oxindolealanine-62 lysozyme were observed by the two methods employed, in accordance with previous observations (Norton & Allerhand, 1976). The pK values of the catalytically important carboxyl groups of Glu35 and Asp52 were identical in the native enzyme and its derivative. However, the modified enzyme is virtually inactive in the hydrolysis of the cell-wall mucopolysaccharide of Micrococcus lysodeikticus. The binding of N-acetylglucosamine oligosaccharides to both native lysozyme and Ox-62 lysozyme was studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, observing the perturbations on the lysozyme 1H n.m.r. resonances, and differences in the perturbations of the two systems demonstrated that binding of (GlcNAc)3 in particular was not identical in the two systems. The structure of Ox-62 lysozyme-(GlcNAc)3 was studied by X-ray crystallography and it was shown that only two GlcNAc residues make contact with the enzyme, binding the reducing end residue in a similar mode as the α-anomeric form of GlcNAc binds to the native enzyme (Blake et al., 1967a). On the basis of the results obtained by X-ray crystallography and 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy, the lack of enzymatic activity of the Ox-62 lysozyme arises from the obstruction by the oxindolealanine residue of sub-site B of the active site, preventing productive binding of the substrate. |
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