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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Structure and Function of the Bacillus Hybrid Enzyme GluXyn-1: Native-Like Jellyroll Fold Preserved after Insertion of Autonomous Globular Domain
Published:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1998
Published in:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 95 (1998) 12, Seite 6613-6618
Language:
English
ISSN:
0027-8424
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>The 1,3-1,4-β -glucanase from Bacillus macerans (wtGLU) and the 1,4-β -xylanase from Bacillus subtilis (wtXYN) are both single-domain jellyroll proteins catalyzing similar enzymatic reactions. In the fusion protein GluXyn-1, the two proteins are joined by insertion of the entire XYN domain into a surface loop of cpMAC-57, a circularly permuted variant of wtGLU. GluXyn-1 was generated by protein engineering methods, produced in Escherichia coli and shown to fold spontaneously and have both enzymatic activities at wild-type level. The crystal structure of GluXyn-1 was determined at 2.1 angstrom resolution and refined to R = 17.7% and R(free) = 22.4%. It shows nearly ideal, native-like folding of both protein domains and a small, but significant hinge bending between the domains. The active sites are independent and accessible explaining the observed enzymatic activity. Because in GluXyn-1 the complete XYN domain is inserted into the compact folding unit of GLU, the wild-type-like activity and tertiary structure of the latter proves that the folding process of GLU does not depend on intramolecular interactions that are short-ranged in the sequence. Insertion fusions of the GluXyn-1 type may prove to be an easy route toward more stable bifunctional proteins in which the two parts are more closely associated than in linear end-to-end protein fusions.</p>