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ArticleNucleic acids research2013

Increasing cleavage specificity and activity of restriction endonuclease KpnI.

Kommireddy Vasu, Easa Nagamalleswari, Mai Zahran, Petra Imhof, Shuang-Yong Xu, Zhenyu Zhu, Siu-Hong Chan, Valakunja Nagaraja

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Kommireddy VasuDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India, Department of Chemistry, New York University, NY, USA, Department of Physics, Free University Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany, New England Biolabs, Inc., 240 County Road, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 560 064, India.
Easa Nagamalleswari
Mai Zahran
Petra Imhof
Shuang-Yong Xu
Zhenyu Zhu
Siu-Hong Chan
Valakunja Nagaraja
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research · INIndian Institute of Science Bangalore · INNew York University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Restriction enzyme KpnI is a HNH superfamily endonuclease requiring divalent metal ions for DNA cleavage but not for binding. The active site of KpnI can accommodate metal ions of different atomic radii for DNA cleavage. Although Mg(2+) ion higher than 500 μM mediates promiscuous activity, Ca(2+) suppresses the promiscuity and induces high cleavage fidelity. Here, we report that a conservative mutation of the metal-coordinating residue D148 to Glu results in the elimination of the Ca(2+)-mediated cleavage but imparting high cleavage fidelity with Mg(2+). High cleavage fidelity of the mutant D148E is achieved through better discrimination of the target site at the binding and cleavage steps. Biochemical experiments and molecular dynamics simulations suggest that the mutation inhibits Ca(2+)-mediated cleavage activity by altering the geometry of the Ca(2+)-bound HNH active site. Although the D148E mutant reduces the specific activity of the enzyme, we identified a suppressor mutation that increases the turnover rate to restore the specific activity of the high fidelity mutant to the wild-type level. Our results show that active site plasticity in coordinating different metal ions is related to KpnI promiscuous activity, and tinkering the metal ion coordination is a plausible way to reduce promiscuous activity of metalloenzymes.

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DNA CleavageCalciumCatalytic DomainDeoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-SpecificMagnesiumMolecular Dynamics SimulationMutationSubstrate SpecificityCalciumDeoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-SpecificGGTACC-specific type II deoxyribonucleasesMagnesium

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PMID23963701
PMCPMC3834813
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