Aplysia limacina myoglobin cDNA cloning: an alternative mechanism of oxygen stabilization as studied by active-site mutagenesis.

نویسندگان

  • F Cutruzzolà
  • C Travaglini Allocatelli
  • A Brancaccio
  • M Brunori
چکیده

The isolation and cloning of the cDNA coding for myoglobin (Mb) from the mollusc Aplysia limacina is reported here. Five amino acid differences from the previously published protein sequence have been found in positions 22, 26, 27, 77 and 80 by back transplanting the cDNA; some of these may be relevant for overall structure stabilization in this Mb. High-level expression of the holoprotein in Escherichia coli has been achieved in the presence of the haem precursor delta-aminolevulinic acid, underlying the importance of tuning haem and apoprotein biosynthesis to achieve high-level expression of haemproteins in bacteria. The recombinant protein is identical to the protein purified from the mollusc buccal muscle. Native A. limacina Mb has an oxygen dissociation rate constant of 70 s(-1) [as compared with the value of 15 s(-1) for sperm whale Mb, which displays His(E7) and Thr(E10)] (amino acid positions are referred to within the eight helices A-H of the globin fold). In order to understand the mechanism of oxygen stabilization in A. limacina Mb, we have prepared and investigated three active-site mutants: two single mutants in which Val(E7) and Arg(E10) have been replaced by His and Thr, respectively, and a double mutant carrying both mutations. When Arg(E10) is substituted with Thr, the oxygen dissociation rate constant is increased from 70 s(-1) to more than 700 s(-1), in complete agreement with the previously proposed role of the former residue in ligand stabilization. In the His(E7)-containing single and double mutants, both displaying high oxygen dissociation rates, the stabilization of bound oxygen by the distal His is insufficient to slow down the ligand dissociation rate constant to the value of sperm whale Mb. These results essentially prove the hypothesis that in A. limacina Mb a mechanism of oxygen stabilization involving Arg(E10), and thus different from that mediated by His(E7), has evolved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Biochemical journal

دوره 314 ( Pt 1)  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996