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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 6, 2502-2506, Feb, 1987

Circular dichroism investigation of Escherichia coli adenylate kinase

M Monnot, AM Gilles, IS Girons, S Michelson, O Barzu and S Fermandjian

We examined by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy in far- and near- ultraviolet three different molecular forms of Escherichia coli adenylate kinase: the wild type protein, the enzyme carboxymethylated at a single cysteine residue (Cys-77), and the thermosensitive adenylate kinase. The thermosensitive enzyme differs from the wild type protein in that a serine is substituted for a proline residue at position 87 (Gilles, A.-M., Saint Girons, I., Monnot, M., Fermandjian, S., Michelson, S., and Barzu, O. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 83, 5798-5802). We also examined the CD spectra of isolated peptides resulting from chemical cleavage of adenylate kinase at Cys-77 (C1, residues 1-76; C2, residues 77-214). The secondary structure composition of wild type bacterial adenylate kinase (50% alpha-helix and 15% beta-sheet) was close to that derived from x-ray analysis of pig muscle enzyme (Schulz, G.E., Elzinga, M., Marx, F., and Schirmer, R. H. (1974) Nature 250, 120-123). Carboxymethylation of wild type protein did not greatly affect the CD spectrum. The secondary structure of the thermosensitive adenylate kinase was observed to be significantly different from that of the wild type enzyme (reduction in alpha-helix content to 39%). Changes in ellipticities at 222 nm as a function of temperature indicated that the melting temperature for thermosensitive adenylate kinase was 38 degrees C and that for the wild type enzyme was 54 degrees C. Isolated C1 and C2 peptides had a large proportion of unordered structures. When mixed, C1 and C2 fragments reassociated into structures resembling native, uncleaved adenylate kinase. The recovery of ordered structures, indicated by CD spectroscopy, paralleled the recovery of catalytic activity.
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