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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 382, Issue 4, Pages 971-977Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.07.049
Keywords
chorismate mutase; molten globule; isothermal titration calorimetry; entropy-enthalpy compensation; fly-casting mechanism
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- ETH Zurich
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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An engineered monomeric chorismate mutase (mMjCM) has been found to combine high catalytic activity with the characteristics of a molten globule. To gain insight into the dramatic structural changes that accompany binding of a transition-state analog, we examined mMjCM by isothermal calorimetry and compared it with its dimeric parent protein, MjCM (CM from Methanococcus jannaschii), a thermostable and conventionally folded enzyme. As expected for a ligand-induced ordering process, there is a large entropic penalty for binding to the monomer relative to the dimer (-TAAS=5.1 +/- 0.5 kcal/mol, at 20 degrees C). However, this unfavorable entropy term is largely offset by enthalpic gains (Delta Delta H=-3.5 +/- 0.4 kcal/mol), presumably arising from tightening of non-covalent interactions throughout the monomeric complex. Stopped-flow kinetic measurements further reveal that the catalytic molten globule binds and releases ligands significantly faster than its natural counterpart, demonstrating that partial structural disorder can speed up molecular recognition. These results illustrate how structural plasticity may strongly perturb the thermodynamics and kinetics of transition-state recognition while negligibly affecting catalytic efficiency. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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