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The kinetics of refolding of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase were studied by following the variation in circular dichroism at 218 nm, the recovery of enzyme activity, and the susceptibility to proteolysis by trypsin and V8-protease. A very rapid phase followed by a slower one was detected by circular dichroism, which revealed the formation of secondary structures. The slower phase, with a macroscopic rate constant of 0.35 min-1, was also detected by the susceptibility of the enzyme to both proteases. It was shown that cleavage sites located in the hinge region, in a part of the C-domain and, to a lesser extent, in a region of the N-domain, which are accessible in the intermediate state, became inaccessible during the slow-refolding step of the molecule. These results demonstrate, on the one hand, the role of domains as folding intermediates, and, on the other hand, the locking of the domain structure and the domain pairing that occurs during the slow-refolding step with a rate constant of 0.35 min-1. The return of the enzyme activity occurred in a slower last step upon conformational readjustments induced by domain interactions.
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PMID:The slow-refolding step of phosphoglycerate kinase as monitored by pulse proteolysis. 160 49

The occurrence of age-related modifications in enzymes is a well-established symptom of aging that has been explained by several possible mechanisms including the oxidation of amino acid residues by mixed-function oxidation (MFO) systems. In the present study native old phosphoglycerate kinase was compared with young enzyme which had been modified by oxidation with ascorbate: FeCl3 followed by reduction. The comparison was done by monitoring the rates of heat denaturation of these enzyme forms, as well as their inactivation by trypsin. A remarkable similarity between the old and treated young enzyme was revealed, while native young phosphoglycerate kinase was inactivated with a different rate. Extensive unfolding followed by refolding converted both old and MFO-treated young phosphoglycerate kinase to species which greatly resemble the native young enzyme in their heat inactivation kinetics. These results demonstrate that the exposure of phosphoglycerate kinase to the mixed-function oxidation system introduces some modifications which are not reversed by subsequent enzyme reduction and which resemble those found in the native old enzyme. This mechanism, therefore, may account for the aging of phosphoglycerate kinase in vivo.
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PMID:Exposure of rat muscle phosphoglycerate kinase to a nonenzymatic MFO system generates the old form of the enzyme. 194 72

Several lines of evidence have demonstrated conclusively the presence of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ecto-RC) activity on the external surface of goat cauda-epididymal intact spermatozoa. The intact-cell ecto-kinase that caused transfer of the terminal phosphate of exogenous ATP to the serine and threonine residues of exogenous histone was specifically activated by cAMP. As well, the ecto-kinase caused phosphorylation of the synthetic peptide Kemptide. The isolated spermatozoa, before or after incubation with reaction mixture for ecto-kinase assays, were approximately 99.5% viable, as shown by the analyses of ethidium bromide fluorescence and the cytosolic marker enzymes lactic dehydrogenase and 3-phosphoglycerate kinase. The ecto-kinase activity was not due to contamination of epididymal plasma and damaged cells or to protein kinase that may have leaked from the cells. There was little uptake of ATP and histone by the cells. The intact-cell kinase activity was strongly (80-90%) inhibited by treatment with membrane nonpenetrating surface probes: p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonic acid (2 microM), diazonium salt of sulfanilic acid (DSS, 0.5 mM), and proteases such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, and pronase (each 125 micrograms/mL). Disruption of sperm plasma membrane by sonication or Triton X-100 (0.2%) caused about a fivefold increase of the intact sperm kinase activity. Highly purified sperm plasma membrane (PM) possessed ecto-kinase activity that was resolved into type I and II kinases by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, the type I isoenzyme being the major (approximately 70%) enzymic species. Treatment of the intact spermatozoa with DSS prior to isolation of PM caused a marked loss of the activities of both the isoenzymes, indicating thereby the "ecto" nature of the PM-bound type I and II kinases. Preparations of vigorously forward-motile spermatozoa with 100% intactness had approximately fourfold higher specific activity of the ecto-kinase than the "composite" cells from which the former cells were isolated. However, the profiles of the type I and II ecto-kinases of the composite, as well as forward-motile spermatozoa, were nearly identical. The data are consistent with the view that ecto-kinases may have role in the regulation of flagellar motility.
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PMID:Type I and II cAMP-dependent ecto-protein kinases in goat epididymal spermatozoa and their enriched activities in forward-motile spermatozoa. 216 Aug 33

A method of calculating the electrostatic potential energy between two molecules, using finite difference potential, is presented. A reduced charge set is used so that the interaction energy can be calculated as the two static molecules explore their full six-dimensional configurational space. The energies are contoured over surfaces fixed to each molecule with an interactive computer graphics program. For two crystal structures (trypsin-trypsin inhibitor and anti-lysozyme Fab-lysozyme), it is found that the complex corresponds to highly favourable interacting regions in the contour plots. These matches arise from a small number of protruding basic residues interacting with enhanced negative potential in each case. The redox pair cytochrome c peroxidase-cytochrome c exhibits an extensive favourably interacting surface within which a possible electron transfer complex may be defined by an increased electrostatic complementarity, but a decreased electrostatic energy. A possible substrate transfer configuration for the glycolytic enzyme pair glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase-phosphoglycerate kinase is presented.
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PMID:Investigating protein-protein interaction surfaces using a reduced stereochemical and electrostatic model. 254 Dec 55

Mixed-function oxidation of Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase by ascorbate, oxygen, and iron has previously been shown to cause inactivation of the enzyme and enhanced susceptibility to proteolytic attack by a variety of proteases. One of these proteases, from rat liver, is a high molecular weight cysteine proteinase which does not degrade native glutamine synthetase at neutral pH. Although inactive, the oxidized glutamine synthetase preparations used in this study were only partially degraded by this proteinase. Some of the subunits were degraded to acid soluble products with no detectable intermediates; the remaining subunits had not become susceptible to proteolytic attack during the limited exposure to the ascorbate mixed-function oxidation system. Several mammalian enzymes which are known to be inactivated by mixed-function oxidation were tested as substrates for the proteinase. Native rabbit muscle enolase and pyruvate kinase were resistant to degradation, but their oxidatively inactivated forms were degraded. Oxidized phosphoglycerate kinase and creatine kinase were also preferentially degraded. Moreover, trypsin degraded oxidized preparations of all of these enzymes faster than control preparations. Oxidative inactivation of superoxide dismutase by hydrogen peroxide caused a slight increase in susceptibility to proteolytic attack, but the enzyme was still relatively resistant to degradation both by the cysteine proteinase and by trypsin. Although oxidation conditions may not have been optimal for demonstrating enhanced proteolytic susceptibility, the results do indicate that mixed-function oxidation can render some mammalian enzymes, as well as bacterial glutamine synthetase, susceptible to degradation. Mixed-function oxidation of these proteins may be a mechanism of marking them for intracellular turnover.
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PMID:The effect of mixed-function oxidation of enzymes on their susceptibility to degradation by a nonlysosomal cysteine proteinase. 286 45

A somatic cell hybrid containing a single human X chromosome bearing the Xq27 fragile site was lethally irradiated and re-hybridized to its HPRT- Chinese hamster parent. One of 24 colonies surviving selection for HPRT was found to have retained human G6PD but not PGK. This line, X3000-11, which shows Xq24-qter translocated to a hamster chromosome by trypsin G-banding and a single human chromatin fragment corresponding to this segment of the X by G-11 staining, expresses the fragile site on exposure to 5-fluorodeoxyuridine. Dot blots using total human DNA suggest that X3000-11 retains approximately 0.2% of the human genome. By Southern blotting, X3000-11 retains Factor IX, DXS11 and DXS42 but lacks DXYS1, DXS3 and DXS17. This hybrid is being used to construct a cosmid library in the vector pCOS2 from which a sub-library of 500-1000 clones of human origin will be isolated using in vivo recombination with cloned Alu and Kpn family repeats. Such a sub-library will greatly facilitate chromosome walking to the fragile site as well as the testing of individual clones for their ability to create a folate-sensitive fragile site by DNA transfer into permissive Chinese hamster recipient cells.
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PMID:A rodent-human hybrid containing Xq24-qter translocated to a hamster chromosome expresses the Xq27 folate-sensitive fragile site. 293

Phosphoglycerate kinase (ATP:3-phospho-D-glycerate 1-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.2.3) from young and old rat muscle was purified to homogeneity. After ascertaining that each preparation of the enzyme obtained from the latter indeed possessed altered properties, matched pairs of young and old enzymes were subjected to amino acid analysis and peptide mapping by HPLC. Following S-carboxymethylation, the respective young and old enzymes were digested with each of the following three proteinases: trypsin, chymotrypsin and S. aureus V8 proteinase. The corresponding peptides were resolved by reverse-phase HPLC. The peptide patterns obtained from both enzyme forms were identical. Even when the peptides obtained from digestion of phosphoglycerate kinase with S. aureus V8 proteinase were further digested with trypsin, no differences were observed. Comparative amino acid analyses also showed no differences. These results provide direct evidence that there are no changes in the sequence of altered rat muscle phosphoglycerate kinase and support the hypothesis that the differences in properties between the young and old forms of the enzyme result from a conformational modification.
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PMID:Altered phosphoglycerate kinase from old rat muscle shows no change in primary structure. 404 64

With the aim of confirming our previous spectrophotometric binding studies ((1978) Eur. J. Biochem. 85, 345-350 and (1980) Eur. J. Biochem. 104, 249-254) and of ascertaining the full physiological significance of ion binding, we investigated the effects of ions and thiol reagents on the proteolysis of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase (ATP: 3-phospho-D-glycerate 1-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.2.3). The single non-essential thiol of the enzyme was modified with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) or 2-chloromercuri-4-nitrophenol. Both modifications greatly increased the susceptibility of the kinase to inactivation by trypsin or yeast proteinase A, when compared with that of the native kinase. Electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) revealed that limited proteolysis had occurred. The time courses for the proteolysis and loss of catalytic activity were followed and the active and inactive fragments identified. The molecular masses of the major proteolytic fragments differed with the two endopeptidases. Substrate and non-substrate anions in a concentration-dependent fashion, protected the native and mercurial-labelled kinase from inactivation by trypsin or yeast proteinase A. However, Zn2+, in a concentration-dependent fashion, increased the susceptibility of the native kinase to inactivation by each endopeptidase. The time courses for the inactivation and for the proteolysis allowed the active and inactive fragments to be identified. Zn2+ decreased the rate of inactivation of the mercurial-labelled kinase by proteinase A. The effects of these ions were detected at concentrations compatible with occupancy of an anion binding site and a low affinity Zn2+ binding site, both of which have been indicated from our previous binding studies.
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PMID:The effects of anions, substrates, metal ions and sulfhydryl reagents on the proteolytic susceptibility of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase. 703

Yeast 3-phosphoglycerate kinase is inactivated by incubation with pyridoxal 5'-diphospho-5'-adenosine (AdoP2Pxy) [Tamura, J. K., Rakov, R. D. & Gross, R. L. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 4126-4133). Incorporation of 1 mol affinity label/mol enzyme was sufficient for complete inactivation of 3-phosphoglycerate kinase. The substrate ATP affords substantial protection against inactivation. Partial protection is afforded by the substrate glycerate 3-phosphate. When AdoP2Pxy-modified phosphoglycerate kinase was reduced with [3H]NaBH4 and subjected to trypsin hydrolysis, only one radioactive peptide was isolated by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The amino acid composition and sequence analysis of the purified radioactive peptide revealed that it spans residues 379-403 of the enzyme and Lys385 specifically reacted with the affinity label. This peptide represents the hinge region between the two domains of the protein, where the active site is also located. The fluorescence intensity of enzyme-bound AdoP2Pxy is enhanced when glycerate 3-phosphate is added, suggesting exposure of the fluorescent probe to a more hydrophobic environment. Another fluorescent analog, anthraniloyl-dATP (ant-dATP), which carries the fluorescent reporter group on the ribose ring, binds to the enzyme at two distinct sites with Kd values of 6 +/- 2 microM and 25 +/- 3 microM, as determined by steady-state anisotropy measurements. Bound ant-dATP was displaced from the enzyme by glycerate 3-phosphate and ATP, as monitored by the fluorescence anisotropy. These results suggest that both fluorescent ATP analogs bind to the active site, which is at the hinge region of the enzyme. Model-building studies showed that when AdoP2Pxy is built into the open form of the enzyme, as described in X-ray studies, the pyridoxyl group of AdoP2Pxy cannot reach Lys385 for Schiff-base formation. Labeled Lys385 is on a beta-turn immediately following helix XII, which was suggested to interact with the nucleotide and become ordered at the active site of 3-phosphoglycerate kinase [Watson, H. C., Walker, N. P. C., Shaw, P. J., Bryant, T. N., Wendell, P. L., Fothergill, L. A., Perkins, R. E., Conroy, S. C., Dobson, M. J., Tuite, M. F., Kinesman, A. J. & Kinesman, S. M. (1982) EMBO J. 1, 1635-1640]. The results presented here suggest that binding of substrates cause significant structural changes in the enzyme.
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PMID:Interaction of ATP analogs with yeast 3-phosphoglycerate kinase. Affinity labeling of the hinge region. 846 45

Treatment of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) with trypsin results in a fourfold increase in the Vmax of this enzyme, without affecting the Km. This activation is shown to be due to the removal of the C-terminal lysine residue. The C-terminal sequence folds back over the N-terminal domain and contacts the extreme N-terminal sequence which folds onto the C-terminal domain, thus making many of the inter-domain contacts in this two domain protein. Previous studies have shown that this C-terminal region is important in mediating the conformational changes required during catalysis by yeast PGK. Observation of the three-dimensional structure of this enzyme suggests that removal of the C-terminal lysine residue will strengthen the interaction between K5 and E413. This indicates that this salt bridge stabilises the enzyme in the higher activity form, while the presence of K415 reduces the strength of that interaction.
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PMID:The role of the C-terminal lysine in the hinge bending mechanism of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase. 864 50


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