Krautwurst H, Bazaes S, González FD, Jabalquinto AM, Frey PA, Cardemil E. The strongly conserved lysine 256 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is essential for phosphoryl transfer.
Biochemistry 1998;
37:6295-302. [PMID:
9572844 DOI:
10.1021/bi971515e]
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Abstract
Lysine 256, a conserved amino acid of Saccharomycescerevisiae phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxykinase located in the consensus kinase 1a sequence of the enzyme, was changed to alanine, arginine, or glutamine by site-directed mutagenesis. These substitutions did not result in gross changes in the protein structure, as indicated by circular dichroism, tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy, and gel-exclusion chromatography. The three variant enzymes showed almost unaltered Km for MnADP but about a 20 000-fold decrease in Vmax for the PEP carboxylation reaction, as compared to wild-type PEP carboxykinase. The variant enzymes presented oxaloacetate decarboxylase activity at levels similar to those of the native protein; however, they lacked pyruvate kinase-like activity. The dissociation constant for the enzyme-MnATP complex was 1.3 +/- 0.3 microM for wild-type S. cerevisiae PEP carboxykinase, and the corresponding values for the Lys256Arg, Lys256Gln, and Lys256Ala mutants were 2.0 +/- 0.6 microM, 17 +/- 2 microM, and 20 +/- 6 microM, respectively. These results collectively show that a positively charged residue is required for proper binding of MnATP and that Lys256 plays an essential role in transition state stabilization during phosphoryl transfer for S. cerevisiae PEP carboxykinase.
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