PMID:16459339
| Citation |
Kai, Y, Kashiwagi, T, Ishikawa, K, Ziyatdinov, MK, Redkina, EI, Kiriukhin, MY, Gusyatiner, MM, Kobayashi, S, Takagi, H and Suzuki, E (2006) Engineering of Escherichia coli L-serine O-acetyltransferase on the basis of crystal structure: desensitization to feedback inhibition by L-cysteine. Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 19:163-7 |
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| Abstract |
L-Serine O-acetyltransferase (SAT) from Escherichia coli catalyzes the first step of L-cysteine synthesis in E.coli and is strictly inhibited by the second step product, L-cysteine. To establish a fermentation process to produce L-cysteine, we embarked on a mutational study of E.coli SAT to desensitize the feedback inhibition by L-cysteine. The crystal structure and the reaction mechanism of SAT from E.coli have shown that the substrate L-serine and the inhibitor L-cysteine bind to the identical region in the SAT protein. To decrease the affinity for only L-cysteine, we first built the structure model of L-serine-binding SAT on the basis of the crystal structure with bound L-cysteine and compared these two structures. The comparison showed that the Calpha of Asp92 underwent a substantial positional change upon the replacement of L-cysteine by L-serine. We then introduced various amino acid substitutions at positions 89-96 around Asp92 by randomized, fragment-directed mutagenesis to change the position of the Asp92. As a result, we successfully obtained mutant SATs which have both extreme insensitivity to an inhibition by L-cysteine (the concentration that inhibits 50% activity; IC(50) = 1,100 micromol/l, the inhibition constant; K(i) = 950.0 micromol/l) and extremely high emzymatic activities. |
| Links |
PubMed Online version:10.1093/protein/gzj015 |
| Keywords |
Amino Acid Substitution; Cysteine/pharmacology; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Feedback, Physiological/drug effects; Inhibitory Concentration 50; Serine O-Acetyltransferase/antagonists & inhibitors; Serine O-Acetyltransferase/chemistry; Serine O-Acetyltransferase/genetics |
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