J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 31, 15957-15963, Nov, 1988

Directed mutagenesis of the strongly conserved lysine 175 in the proposed nucleotide-binding domain of alpha-subunit from Escherichia coli F1-ATPase

R Rao, J Pagan and AE Senior
Department of Biochemistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642.

The alpha-subunit of Escherichia coli F1-ATPase contains an adenine- specific noncatalytic nucleotide-binding domain. A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 8981-8984) suggested that this domain is formed by residues 160-340, approximately, in alpha-subunit. Within this proposed domain is a sequence Gly-X-X-X-X-Gly-Lys which is conserved in a large and diverse group of nucleotide-binding proteins and is thought to interact with phosphate groups of bound nucleotide. In this work, residue alpha Lys-175, the terminal residue of the above conserved sequence in F1-alpha-subunit, was mutagenized to Ile or Glu. The specific activity of purified mutant F1-ATPase was reduced by 2.5- fold (Ile) or 3-fold (Glu). Apparent binding of ATP to alpha-subunit, as measured by the centrifuge column procedure, was strongly impaired and ATP-induced conformational change in alpha-subunit, as measured by protection against trypsin proteolysis, was nearly abolished in both mutants. The results suggest that residue alpha Lys-175 is located within the nucleotide-binding domain of alpha-subunit, and that this residue is functionally involved in nucleotide binding. The results support previous suggestions that the alpha-subunit nucleotide-binding site is not involved, directly or indirectly, in catalysis.
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