PMID:1633824

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Ahmad, S, Glavas, NA and Bragg, PD (1992) A mutation at Gly314 of the beta subunit of the Escherichia coli pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenase abolishes activity and affects the NADP(H)-induced conformational change. Eur. J. Biochem. 207:733-9

Abstract

Escherichia coli RH1 contains a mutation causing complete loss of pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenase activity. A single base change in the chromosomal DNA resulted in the replacement of Gly314 of the beta subunit by a Glu residue. The mutant enzyme was partially purified and its trypsin cleavage products examined. The distinct pattern of polypeptides given by proteolysis of the normal transhydrogenase in the presence of NADP(H) was absent when the mutant enzyme was treated with trypsin. However, the beta subunit of the mutant enzyme retained its ability to bind to NAD-agarose. Further substitutions were made at Gly314 converting it to Ala, Val or Cys by the use of site-directed mutagenesis. All substitutions for Gly314 abolished the activity completely. The enzyme containing the Gly314----Ala mutation was studied in detail and behaved exactly as the enzyme containing the Gly314----Glu mutation. It is concluded that the mutation in the beta subunit abolished the NADP(H)-induced conformational change in the mutant enzyme. This conformational change, caused by NADP(H) binding, is required to cleave the normal beta subunit at Arg265 by trypsin. The genes encoding the pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenase were completely resequenced and several corrections have been made to the previously published sequence [Clarke et al. (1986) Eur. J. Biochem. 158, 647-653].

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Amino Acid Sequence; Base Sequence; Cell Membrane/enzymology; Cloning, Molecular; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Genes, Bacterial; Glutamates/chemistry; Glycine/chemistry; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; Mutation; NADP/metabolism; NADP Transhydrogenases/genetics; NADP Transhydrogenases/isolation & purification; NADP Transhydrogenases/metabolism; Peptide Fragments/chemistry; Protein Conformation; Restriction Mapping; Solubility; Structure-Activity Relationship; Trypsin/pharmacology

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