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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 1, Pages 677-685Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M007593200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM49156] Funding Source: Medline
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Based on the crystal structure of human topoisomerase I, we hypothesized that hydrogen bonding between the side chain of the highly conserved His(632) and one of the nonbridging oxygens of the scissile phosphate contributes to catalysis by stabilizing the transition state. This hypothesis has been tested by examining the effects of changing His(632) to glutamine, asparagine, alanine, and tryptophan, The change to glutamine reduced both the relaxation activity and single-turnover cleavage activity by approximately 100-fold, whereas the same change at three other conserved histidines (positions 222, 387, and 406) had no significant effect on the relaxation activity. The properties of the mutant protein containing asparagine instead of histidine at position 632 were similar to those of the glutamine mutant, whereas mutations to alanine or tryptophan reduced the activity by approximately 4 orders of magnitude. The reduction in activity for the mutants was not due to alterations in substrate binding affinities or changes in the cleavage specificities of the proteins. The above results for the glutamine mutation in conjunction with the similar effects of pH on the wild type and the H632Q mutant enzyme rule out the possibility that His(632) acts as a general acid to protonate the leaving 5'-oxygen during the cleavage reaction, Taken together, these data strongly support the hypothesis that the only role for His632 is to stabilize the pentavalent transition state through hydrogen bonding to one of the nonbridging oxygens.
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