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ArticleBiophysical journal2022

Single-molecule studies reveal method for tuning the heterogeneous activity of alkaline phosphatase.

Tal Gilboa, Alana F Ogata, Charles B Reilly, David R Walt

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Tal GilboaHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Alana F OgataHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Charles B ReillyWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
David R WaltHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: dwalt@bwh.harvard.edu.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

Training Program in Molecular HematologyT32HL007622 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SUNG WON CHOI, Jordan A. Shavit · 1986 to 2026
$9.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007622
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-molecule-enzymology (SME) methods have enabled the observation of heterogeneous catalytic activities within a single enzyme population. Heterogeneous activity is hypothesized to originate from conformational changes in the enzyme that result from changes in the local environment leading to catalytically active substates. Here, we use SME to investigate the mechanisms of heterogeneous activity exhibited by tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP), which reveals two subpopulations with different catalytic activities. We show the effect of pH and temperature on the distribution of TNSALP activity and confirm the presence of two subpopulations attributed to half- and fully active TNSALP substates. We provide mechanistic insight about protein structure using molecular dynamic simulations and show pH- and temperature-dependent conformational transitions that corroborate experimentally observed changes in TNSALP activity. These results show the utility of SME to understand heterogeneous enzyme activity and demonstrate a simple approach using pH and temperature to tune catalytic activity within an enzyme population.

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HypophosphatasiaAlkaline PhosphataseAnimalsChlorocebus aethiopsCOS CellsAlkaline Phosphatasealkaline phosphatasemolecular dynamic simulationssingle-molecule enzymology

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PMID35527401
PMCPMC9247479
OpenAlexW4228999258

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