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FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.699203
关键词
NMR; conformational dynamics; thermophile; protein design; enzyme regulation
资金
- NIGMS [R35GM133488]
- Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
Enzyme I (EI) of the bacterial phosphotransferase system (PTS) is a master regulator of bacterial metabolism and a potential target for broad-spectrum antibiotics. Research shows that the activity of EI is influenced by the conformational dynamics within the N-terminal domain (EIN), and engineering hybrid mesophilic/thermophilic chimeras can modulate these dynamics to affect enzyme activity. This study provides insights into the dynamics/function relationship in proteins and opens new possibilities in biophysics research.
Enzyme I (EI) of the bacterial phosphotransferase system (PTS) is a master regulator of bacterial metabolism and a promising target for development of a new class of broad-spectrum antibiotics. The catalytic activity of EI is mediated by several intradomain, interdomain, and intersubunit conformational equilibria. Therefore, in addition to its relevance as a drug target, EI is also a good model for investigating the dynamics/function relationship in multidomain, oligomeric proteins. Here, we use solution NMR and protein design to investigate how the conformational dynamics occurring within the N-terminal domain (EIN) affect the activity of EI. We show that the rotameric g ( + )-to-g ( - ) transition of the active site residue His(189) chi 2 angle is decoupled from the state A-to-state B transition that describes a similar to 90 degrees rigid-body rearrangement of the EIN subdomains upon transition of the full-length enzyme to its catalytically competent closed form. In addition, we engineered EIN constructs with modulated conformational dynamics by hybridizing EIN from mesophilic and thermophilic species, and used these chimeras to assess the effect of increased or decreased active site flexibility on the enzymatic activity of EI. Our results indicate that the rate of the autophosphorylation reaction catalyzed by EI is independent from the kinetics of the g ( + )-to-g ( - ) rotameric transition that exposes the phosphorylation site on EIN to the incoming phosphoryl group. In addition, our work provides an example of how engineering of hybrid mesophilic/thermophilic chimeras can assist investigations of the dynamics/function relationship in proteins, therefore opening new possibilities in biophysics.
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