The role of the C-terminal tail of flavocytochrome b2.

نویسندگان

  • S A White
  • M T Black
  • G A Reid
  • S K Chapman
چکیده

A flavocytochrome b2 (L-lactate dehydrogenase) mutant was constructed in which the C-terminal tail (23 amino acid residues) had been deleted (Gly-489----Stop). This tail appears to form many intersubunit contacts in the tetrameric wild-type protein, and it was expected that its removal might lead to the formation of monomeric flavocytochrome b2. The isolated tail-deleted mutant enzyme (TD-b2), however, was found to be tetrameric (Mr 220,000). TD-b2 shows Km and kcat. values (at 25 degrees C and pH 7.5) of 0.96 +/- 0.06 mM and 165 +/- 6 s-1 respectively compared with 0.49 +/- 0.04 mM and 200 +/- 10 s-1 for the wild-type enzyme. The kinetic isotope effect with [2-2H]lactate as substrate seen for TD-b2, with ferricyanide as electron acceptor, was essentially the same as that observed for the wild-type enzyme. TD-b2 exhibited loss of activity during turnover in a biphasic process. The rate of the faster of the two phases was dependent on L-lactate concentration and at saturating concentrations showed a first-order deactivation rate constant, kf(deact.), of 0.029 s-1 (at 25 degrees C and pH 7.5). The slower phase, however, was independent of L-lactate concentration and gave a first-order deactivation rate constant, ks(deact.), of 0.01 s-1 (at 25 degrees C and pH 7.5). This slower phase was found to correlate with dissociation of FMN, which is one of the prosthetic groups of the enzyme. Thus fully deactivated TD-b2, which was also tetrameric, was found to be completely devoid of FMN. Much of the original activity of TD-b2 could be recovered by re-incorporation of FMN. Thus the C-terminal tail of flavocytochrome b2 appears to be required for the structural integrity of the enzyme around the flavin active site even though the two are well separated in space.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Biochemical journal

دوره 263 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1989