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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 421, Issue 2, Pages 283-289Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2003.11.006
Keywords
carbonic anhydrase; proton transfer; chemical modification; histidine analogs
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 25154] Funding Source: Medline
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The hydration of CO2 catalyzed by human carbonic anhydrase 11 (HCA 11) is accompanied by proton transfer from the zinc-bound water of the enzyme to solution. We have replaced the proton shuttling residue His 64 with Ala and placed cysteine residues within the active-site cavity by mutating sites Trp 5, Asn 62, Ile 91, and Phe 131. These mutants were modified at the single inserted cysteine with imidazole analogs to introduce new potential shuttle groups. Catalysis by these modified mutants was determined by stopped-flow and O-18-exchange methods. Specificity in proton transfer was demonstrated; only modifications of the Cys 131-containing mutant showed enhancement in the proton transfer step of catalysis compared with unmodified Cys 131-containing mutant. Modifications at other sites resulted in up to 3-fold enhancement in rates Of CO2 hydration, with apparent second-order rate constants near 350 muM(-1) s(-1). These are among the largest values of k(cat)/K-m observed for a carbonic anhydrase. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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