Abstract:
:Tyr225 in the active site of Escherichia coli aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) was replaced by phenylalanine or arginine by site-directed mutagenesis. X-ray crystallographic analysis of Y225F AspAT showed that the benzene ring of Phe225 was situated at the same position as the phenol ring of Tyr225 in wild-type AspAT. The mutations resulted in a great decrease in the rate of the transamination reaction, suggesting that Tyr225 is important for efficient catalysis. The kinetic analysis of half-transamination reactions of Y225F AspAT with four substrates (aspartate, glutamate, oxalacetate, and 2-oxoglutarate) and some analogues (2-methylaspartate, succinate, and glutarate) revealed a considerable increase in the affinities for all these compounds. In contrast, affinity for the amino acid substrates was decreased by mutation to arginine, but affinities for the keto acid substrates and the two dicarboxylates (succinate and glutarate) were increased. The electrostatic interaction between O(3') of the coenzyme [pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)] and the residue at position 225 affected the pKa value of the Schiff base, which is formed between the epsilon-amino group of Lys258 and the aldehyde group of PLP; based on the spectrophotometric titration the pKa values were determined to be 6.8 for wild-type AspAT, 8.5 for Y225F AspAT, and 6.1 for Y225R AspAT in the absence of substrate. The absorption spectra of the three AspATs were almost identical in the acidic pH region, but the spectrum of Y225F AspAT differed from that of wild-type or Y225R AspAT in the alkaline pH region.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
journal_name
J Biochemjournal_title
Journal of biochemistryauthors
Inoue K,Kuramitsu S,Okamoto A,Hirotsu K,Higuchi T,Morino Y,Kagamiyama Hdoi
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a123421subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-04-01 00:00:00pages
570-6issue
4eissn
0021-924Xissn
1756-2651journal_volume
109pub_type
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