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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 105, Issue 10, Pages 2385-2391Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.09.050
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan [18074005, 30540108]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24770143, 25117505, 25251016] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Protein conformational fluctuations modulate the catalytic powers of enzymes. The frequency of conformational fluctuations may modulate the catalytic rate at individual reaction steps. In this study, we modulated the rotary fluctuation frequency of F-1-ATPase (F-1) by attaching probes with different viscous drag coefficients at the rotary shaft of F-1. Individual rotation pauses of F-1 between rotary steps correspond to the waiting state of a certain elementary reaction step of ATP hydrolysis. This allows us to investigate the impact of the frequency modulation of the rotary fluctuation on the rate of the individual reaction steps by measuring the duration of rotation pauses. Although phosphate release was significantly decelerated, the ATP-binding and hydrolysis steps were less sensitive or insensitive to the viscous drag coefficient of the probe. Brownian dynamics simulation based on a model similar to the Sumi-Marcus theory reproduced the experimental results, providing a theoretical framework for the role of rotational fluctuation in F-1 rate enhancement.
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