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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 355, 期 4, 页码 664-674出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.011
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ancestral residue; protein stability; 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase; Thermus thermophilus; Commonote
We have recently developed a new method for designing thermostable proteins using phylogenetic trees of enzymes. In this study, we investigated a method for designing proteins with improved stability using 3-isopropy1malate dehydrogenase (IPMDH) from Thermus thermophilus as a model enzyme. We designed 12 mutant enzymes, each having an ancestral amino acid residue that was present in the common ancestor of Bacteria and Archaea. At least six of the 12 ancestral mutants tested showed thermal stability higher than that of the original enzyme. The results supported the hyperthermophilic universal ancestor hypothesis. The effect of ancestral residues on IPMDHs of several organisms and on the related enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase was summarised and analysed. The effect of an ancestral residue on thermostability did not depend on the degree of conservation of the residue at the site, suggesting that the stabilisation of these mutant proteins is not related to sequence conservation but to the antiquity of the introduced residues. The results suggest also that this method could be an efficient way of designing mutant enzymes with higher thermostability based only on the primary structure and a phylogenetic tree. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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