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Query: EC:3.1.26.4 (RNase H)
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Ribonuclease HI from the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (So-RNase HI) is much less stable than Escherichia coli RNase HI (Ec-RNase HI) by 22.4 degrees C in T m and 12.5 kJ mol (-1) in Delta G(H 2O), despite their high degrees of structural and functional similarity. To examine whether the stability of So-RNase HI increases to a level similar to that of Ec-RNase HI via introduction of several mutations, the mutations that stabilize So-RNase HI were identified by the suppressor mutation method and combined. So-RNase HI and its variant with a C-terminal four-residue truncation (154-RNase HI) complemented the RNase H-dependent temperature-sensitive (ts) growth phenotype of E. coli strain MIC3001, while 153-RNase HI with a five-residue truncation could not. Analyses of the activity and stability of these truncated proteins suggest that 153-RNase HI is nonfunctional in vivo because of a great decrease in stability. Random mutagenesis of 153-RNase HI using error-prone PCR, followed by screening for the revertants, allowed us to identify six single suppressor mutations that make 153-RNase HI functional in vivo. Four of them markedly increased the stability of the wild-type protein by 3.6-6.7 degrees C in T m and 1.7-5.2 kJ mol (-1) in Delta G(H 2O). The effects of these mutations were nearly additive, and combination of these mutations increased protein stability by 18.7 degrees C in T m and 12.2 kJ mol (-1) in Delta G(H 2O). These results suggest that several residues are not optimal for the stability of So-RNase HI, and their replacement with other residues strikingly increases it to a level similar to that of the mesophilic counterpart.
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PMID:Remarkable stabilization of a psychrotrophic RNase HI by a combination of thermostabilizing mutations identified by the suppressor mutation method. 1861 83

A goal of protein engineering technology is developing methods to increase protein stability. However, rational design of stable proteins is difficult because the stabilization mechanism of proteins is not fully understood. In this study, we examined the structural dependence of protein stabilization by introducing single amino acid substitution into ribonuclease H1 from the psychotropic bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (So-RNase H1), which was our model protein. We performed saturation mutagenesis at various sites. Mutations that stabilized So-RNase H1 were screened using an RNase H-dependent temperature-sensitive Escherchia coli strain. Stabilizing mutations were identified by the suppressor mutagenesis method. This method yielded 39 stabilized mutants from 513 mutations at 27 positions. This suggested that more than 90% of mutations caused destabilization even in a psychotropic protein. However, 17 positions had stabilizing mutations, indicating that the stabilization factors were dispersed over many positions. Interestingly, the identified mutations were distributed mainly at exposed or nonconserved sites. These results provide a novel strategy for protein stabilization.
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PMID:Investigating the structural dependence of protein stabilization by amino acid substitution. 2354 82