Dissecting the functional roles of the conserved NXXE and HXE motifs of the ADP-dependent glucokinase fromThermococcus litoralis

Autor: Victoria Guixé, Jaime Andrés Rivas-Pardo, César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento, María José Abarca-Lagunas
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Febs Letters
Artículos CONICYT
CONICYT Chile
instacron:CONICYT
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.09.013
Popis: The activity of the ADP-dependent glucokinase from Thermococcus litoralis (TlGK) relies on the highly conserved motifs NXXE (i.e. Asn-Xaa-Xaa-Glu) and HXE (i.e. His-Xaa-Glu). Site-directed mutagenesis of residues Glu279 (HXE) and Glu308 (NXXE) leads to enzymes with highly reduced catalytic rates. The replacement of Glu308 by Gln increased the KM for MgADP(-) and was activated by free Mg(2+). On the other hand, HXE mutants did not affect the KM for MgADP(-), were still inhibited by free Mg(2+), and caused a large increase on KM for glucose and an 87-fold weaker binding of glucose onto the non-hydrolysable TlGK·AMP-AlF3 complex. Our findings put forward the fundamental role of the HXE motif in glucose binding during ternary complex formation.
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