期刊
PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
卷 55, 期 4, 页码 856-861出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20112
关键词
peroxisome; peroxin; specificity; affinity; fluorescence anisotropy; catalase; acyl-CoA oxidase; luciferase
资金
- NIDDK NIH HHS [5F32DK060371-02] Funding Source: Medline
The majority of proteins targeted to the peroxisomal lumen contain a C-terminal peroxisomal targeting signal-1 (PTS1) that is bound by the peroxin Pex5p. The PTS1 is generally regarded as a C-terminal tripeptide that adheres to the consensus (S/A/C)(K/R/H)(L/M). Previously, we studied the binding affinity of peptides of the form YQX(-3)X(-2)X(-1) to the peptide-binding domain of human Pex5p (referred to as Pex5p-C). Optimal affinity was found for YQSKL, which bound with an affinity of 200 +/- 40 nM. To extend this work, we investigated the properties of a peptide containing the last 9 residues of acyl-CoA oxidase (RHYLK-PLQSKL) and discovered that it binds to Pex5p-C with a dissociation constant of 1.4 +/- 0.4 nM, 180 times tighter than YQSKL. Further analysis revealed that the enhanced affinity is primarily due to the presence of leucine in the (-5) position. In addition, a peptide corresponding to the luciferase C-terminus (YKGGKSKL) was found to bind Pex5p-C about 20 times tighter than YQSKL. The majority of this effect results from having lysine in position (4). Catalase contains a noncanonical PTS1 (-AREKANL). The affinity of YQANL was found to be 3600 +/- 400 nH. This relatively weak binding is consistent with previous unsuccessful attempts to direct chloramphenicol acetyltransferase to the peroxisome by fusing -ANL to its C-terminus (-GGA-ANL). The peptides YKANL, YEKANL, YREKANL, and YAREKANL all bound Pex5p-C with higher affinities than did YQANL, but the affinities are still lower than peptides that correspond to functional targeting signals in other contexts. Because both catalase and Pex5p are tetramers (as opposed to the monomeric Pex5p-C and the peptides used in our studies), multidentate effects on binding affinity between Pex5p and other oligomeric proteins should be considered. Our study provides direct thermodynamic data revealing that peptide binding to Pex5p-C binding is favored by lysine in the (4) position and leucine in the (-5) position. Our results suggest that peptides or proteins with optimized residues in the (4) and/or (-5) positions can bind to Pex5p with affinities that are at least two orders of magnitude greater than that of YQSKL, and that this stabilization can compensates for otherwise weakly binding PTSIs. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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