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Decreases in activation energy and substrate affinity in cold-adapted A4-lactate dehydrogenase: evidence from the Antarctic notothenioid fish Chaenocephalus aceratus.

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:Enzyme function is strongly affected by temperature, and orthologs from species adapted to different thermal environments often show temperature compensation in kinetic properties. Antarctic notothenioid fishes live in a habitat of constant, extreme cold (-1.86 +/- 2 degrees C), and orthologs of the enzyme A4-lactate dehydrogenase (A4-LDH) in these species have adapted to this environment through higher catalytic rates, lower Arrhenius activation energies (Ea), and increases in the apparent Michaelis constant for the substrate pyruvate (Km(PYR)). Here, site-directed mutagenesis was used to determine which amino acid substitutions found in A4-LDH of the notothenioid Chaenocephalus aceratus, with respect to orthologs from warm-adapted teleosts, are responsible for these adaptive changes in enzyme function. Km(PYR) was measured in eight single and two double mutants, and Ea was tested in five single and two double mutants in the temperature range 0 degrees C-20 degrees C. Of the four mutants that had an effect on these parameters, two increased Ea but did not affect Km(PYR) (Gly224Ser, Ala310Pro), and two increased both Ea and Km(PYR) (Glu233Met, Gln317Val). The double mutants Glu233Met/Ala310Pro and Glu233Met/Gln317Val increased Km(PYR) and Ea to levels not significantly different from the A4-LDH of a warm temperate fish (Gillichthys mirabilis, habitat temperature 10 degrees C-35 degrees C). The four single mutants are associated with two alpha-helices that move during the catalytic cycle; those that affect Ea but not Km(PYR) are further from the active site than those that affect both parameters. These results provide evidence that (1) cold adaptation in A4-LDH involves changes in mobility of catalytically important molecular structures; (2) these changes may alter activation energy alone or activation energy and substrate affinity together; and (3) the extent to which these parameters are affected may depend on the location of the substitutions within the mobile alpha-helices, perhaps due to differences in proximity to the active site.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Fields PA,Houseman DE

doi

10.1093/molbev/msh237

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-12-01 00:00:00

pages

2246-55

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msh237

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Decreases in activation energy and substrate affinity in cold-adapted A4-lactate dehydrogenase: evidence from the Antarctic notothenioid fish Chaenocephalus aceratus.