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ArticleScientific reports2019

Towards Rational Computational Engineering of Psychrophilic Enzymes.

Jaka Sočan, Geir Villy Isaksen, Bjørn Olav Brandsdal, Johan Åqvist

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Jaka SočanDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, SE-751 24, Uppsala, Sweden.
Geir Villy IsaksenHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N9037, Tromsø, Norway.
Bjørn Olav BrandsdalHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N9037, Tromsø, Norway.
Johan ÅqvistDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, SE-751 24, Uppsala, Sweden. aqvist@xray.bmc.uu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2091-0610

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cold-adapted enzymes from psychrophilic species achieve their high catalytic efficiency at low temperature by a different partitioning of the activation free energy into its enthalpic and entropic components, compared to orthologous mesophilic enzymes. Their lower activation enthalpy, partly compensated by an increased entropic penalty, has been suggested to originate from changes in flexibility of the protein surface. Multiple sequence alignments of psychrophilic and mesophilic enzymes also show characteristic motifs located in surface loops of the protein. Here, we use computer simulations to examine the effects of a number of designed surface mutations of psychrophilic and mesophilic elastases on the temperature dependence of the catalyzed peptide cleavage reaction. For each of 14 mutant enzyme variants we report calculations of their thermodynamic activation parameters. The results show that substitution of psychrophilic loop residues into the mesophilic enzyme consistently changes both the activation parameters and loop flexibilities towards the former, and vice versa for opposite substitutions.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalCold TemperatureProtein EngineeringAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBiocatalysisEnzymesMolecular Dynamics SimulationMutant ProteinsMutationPancreatic ElastaseSalmonThermodynamicsEnzymesMutant ProteinsPancreatic Elastase

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PMID31844096
PMCPMC6915740

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