Molecular Gating of an Engineered Enzyme Captured in Real Time

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KOKKONEN Piia Pauliina SYKORA J. PROKOP Zbyněk GHOSE A. BEDNÁŘ David AMARO M. BEERENS Koen NEVOLOVÁ Šárka SLÁNSKÁ Michaela BREZOVSKÝ Jan DAMBORSKÝ Jiří HOF M.

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Web https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/peg/category/publications/#2018
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09848
Keywords PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON-TRANSFER; CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS; CATALYTIC MECHANISM; PROTEIN DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC-ACIDS; ACTIVE-SITE; FORCE-FIELD; EVOLUTION; MOTIONS; SIMULATION
Description Enzyme engineering tends to focus on the design of active sites for the chemical steps, while the physical steps of the catalytic cycle are often overlooked. Tight binding of a substrate in an active site is beneficial for the chemical steps, whereas good accessibility benefits substrate binding and product release. Many enzymes control the accessibility of their active sites by molecular gates. Here we analyzed the dynamics of a molecular gate artificially introduced into an access tunnel of the most efficient haloalkane dehalogenase using pre-steady-state kinetics, single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics. Photoinduced electron-transfer fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (PET-FCS) has enabled real-time observation of molecular gating at the single-molecule level with rate constants (k(on) = 1822 s(-1), k(off) = 60 s(-1)) corresponding well with those from the pre-steady-state kinetics (k(-1) = 1100 s(-1), k(1) = 20 s(-1)). The PET-FCS technique is used here to study the conformational dynamics in a soluble enzyme, thus demonstrating an additional application for this method. Engineering dynamical molecular gates represents a widely applicable strategy for designing efficient biocatalysts.
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