ISSN:
0006-3592
Keywords:
enzymes in organic solvents
;
solid-state NMR
;
protein dynamics
;
protease
;
conformational mobility
;
Chemistry
;
Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Tyrosyl ring motions in α-lytic protease were investigated by solid-state deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in lyophilized enzyme powder, in powder suspended in organic solvents, and in aqueous crystals. Ring flipping rates were determined by examining deuterium quadrupole echo line shapes. Of the four Tyr residues in the enzyme, one was flipping at the slow (≤103 s-1) and one at the fast (≥107 s-1) exchange limit of the line shape experiment in all the environments tested. Flipping rates of the remaining two Tyr residues depended markedly on the solvent, with the lowest flipping rates (≤103 s-1 for both residues) observed in the enzyme powder, whether dry or suspended in hydrophobic tert-butyl methyl ether. In hydrophilic dioxane and acetonitrile, the mobility of these residues increased to 104 and 105 s-1. The latter rate rose further to 106 s-1 in the hydrated hydrophilic solvents and to ≥107 s-1 in aqueous crystals. The deuterium spectrum of native α-lytic protease was compared with that of the enzyme whose active center was covalently modified with an inhibitor, which binds next to Tyr-123, constraining its ring. This experiment revealed that water addition to acetonitrile specifically increased the flipping rate of this active center residue. Librational motions (“wobbling”), estimated by their effect on spin-lattice relaxation times, were slowest in the anhydrous solvents, intermediate in the hydrated solvents, and fastest in the aqueous crystals. Thus, α-lytic protease is more rigid in organic solvents than in water, as judged by mobility of its tyrosyl residues. Water stripping by hydrophilic solvents did not increase enzyme rigidity, nor were there clear correlations between mobility and either enzymatic activity or solvent dielectric constant. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bit.260420112
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