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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 261, Issue 22, 10087-10092, 08, 1986

Nonessentiality of histidine 291 of Rhodospirillum rubrum ribulose- bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase as determined by site-directed mutagenesis

SK Niyogi, RS Foote, RJ Mural, FW Larimer, S Mitra, TS Soper, R Machanoff and FC Hartman

Chemical modification of spinach ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase by diethyl pyrocarbonate led to the conclusion that His-298 is an essential active-site residue (Igarashi, Y., McFadden, B. A., and El-Gul, T. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 3957-3962). From the pH dependence of inactivation, the pKa of His-298 was observed to be approximately 6.8, and it was suggested that this histidine might be the essential base that initiates catalysis (Paech, C. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 3194-3199). To explore further the possible function of His-298, we have used site-directed mutagenesis to replace the corresponding residue of the Rhodospirillum rubrum carboxylase (His- 291) with alanine. Assays of extracts of Escherichia coli JM107, harboring either the wild-type or mutant gene in an expression vector, revealed that the mutant protein is approximately 40% as active catalytically as the normal carboxylase. After purification to near homogeneity by immunoaffinity chromatography, the mutant protein was partially characterized with respect to subunit structure, kinetic parameters, and interaction with a transition-state analogue. The purified mutant carboxylase had a kcat of 1.5 s-1 and a kcat/Km of 1.7 X 10(4) M-1 s-1 in contrast to values of 3.6 s-1 and 6 X 10(5) M-1 s-1 for the normal enzyme. The high level of enzyme activity exhibited by the Ala-291 mutant excludes His-291 in the R. rubrum carboxylase (and by inference His-298 in the spinach carboxylase) as a catalytically essential residue.
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