Single amino-acid substitution in the N-terminal arm altered the tetramer stability of rat muscle lactate dehydrogenase A

作     者：袁翀 胡红雨 许根俊 

作者机构：1. Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences 200031 Shanghai China 

出 版 物：《Science China(Life Sciences)》 (中国科学（生命科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2001年第44卷第6期

页      面：576-584页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071010[理学-生物化学与分子生物学] 081704[工学-应用化学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 

基　　金：This work was supported in part by grants from the National Pandeng Program and the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39930060). We thank Dr. S. B. Xiong for some technical help in cloning the LDHA gene and Prof. K. C. Ruan for the 

主　　题：lactate dehydrogenase A N-terminal residues size-exclusion chromatograph tetramer stability site-directed mutagenesis unfolding experiments subunit interaction. 

摘      要：Lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) is a well-characterized tetrameric enzyme. Its N-terminal arm, comprised of an α-helix and a p-strand, was suggested to be essential for subunit interactions. To examine the critical amino acid residues in the N-terminus involved in the subunit association, two single-point mutants, Leu3Pro (L3P) and IIe8GIu (I8E), have been constructed. We compared the stability of WT-LDHA (WT) and its variants by unfolding experiments. For WT, a dimeric but inactive intermediate was observed by size-exclusion chromatography at 0.6-0.8 mol/L GdmCI. Leu3Pro exists in an active tetrameric structure in aqueous solution as WT does, but it dissociates into dimers under lower concentration of GdmCI (0.2 mol/L). In aqueous solution, the lle8GIu variant exists predominantly in the dimeric form with increased KM and decreased kcat as compared with those of WT and L3P. However, the activity of lle8GIu increases significantly in the presence of sodium sulfate. In conclusion, two mutants are less stable than WT in oligomer structure. Results also support the fact that some residues in the N-terminal arm, especially the Leu8 in the p-structure, contribute the important binding energies to the dimerization of dimers, which might affect the assembly of the enzyme as well as the catalytic function.