Journal
PROTEIN ENGINEERING DESIGN & SELECTION
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 375-382Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzp015
Keywords
azide rescue; catalytic base; substrate inhibition; substrate specificity
Funding
- Department of Energy Basic Energy Research Program [DE-FG02-84ER113233]
- USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service [2001-52104-11484]
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Thermobifida fuscaLam81A is a single domain family-81 beta-1,3-endoglucanase, but no structure is known for this family. Site-directed mutagenesis of 14 conserved residues chosen from sequence alignments was used to identify those with critical roles in catalysis, binding or substrate specificity. Mutant enzymes were assayed for their ability to bind and hydrolyze substrates with various glycosyl linkages. Residues D422, E499 and E503 were candidates for the catalytic acid or catalytic base, and E499 was shown to be the catalytic base by azide rescue. F425 was shown to have a major role in substrate binding possibly mediated by aromatic ring stacking with the sugar substrate. In addition, mutation of D424 to histidine altered the substrate specificity by increasing the rate of cleavage of mixed-linkage beta-glucan and carboxymethyl-cellulose, 60- and 16-fold, respectively, over the wild-type enzyme.
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