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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 23, 13464-13471, 08, 1990

Identification of catalytic residues in the beta-glucoside permease of Escherichia coli by site-specific mutagenesis and demonstration of interdomain cross-reactivity between the beta-glucoside and glucose systems

K Schnetz, SL Sutrina, MH Saier Jr and B Rak
Institut fur Biologie III, University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

beta-Glucoside Enzyme II (IIBgl) of the Escherichia coli phosphotransferase system transports and phosphorylates beta- glucosides, whereas the glucose Enzyme II-III pair (IIGlc-IIIGlc) transports and phosphorylates glucose as well as certain aliphatic alpha- and beta-glucosides. Comparisons of their respective amino acid sequences previously revealed that both systems are homologous and must be evolutionarily related. To gain more insight into the details of the transport mechanism, we made use of the observed homologies among phosphotransferase system permeases to design a suitable set of site- specific mutants within the gene encoding IIBgl. This set was used to study in vivo fermentation and to analyze in vitro P-enolpyruvate- dependent sugar phosphorylation as well as sugar phosphate-dependent sugar transphosphorylation. The following results were obtained. (i) IIBgl transports and phosphorylates glucose as well as aryl- and alkyl- beta-glucosides; (ii) histidyl 547 is essential for the phosphorylation of IIBgl by the histidine-containing phosphoryl carrier protein of the phosphotransferase system (HPr) (first phosphorylation site); (iii) both cysteyl 24 and histidyl 306 are essential for the transfer of the phosphoryl group to the sugar; (iv) replacement of Cys-24 by serine leads to uncoupling of sugar transport from phosphorylation; and (v) histidyl 183 is important for substrate specificity. Our studies also revealed heterologous phosphoryl transfer between the beta-glucoside and glucose permease components which probably occurs as follows: 1) HPr-P----IIBgl (His-547)----IIGlc----alkyl-alpha- or -beta-glucosides or glucose (but not aryl-beta-glucosides) and 2) HPr-P----IIIGlc---- IIBgl (Cys-24 or His-306)----alkyl- or aryl-beta-glucosides or glucose (but not methyl-alpha-glucoside). In addition to the essential residues noted above, several residues in IIBgl were identified which when mutated reduced the in vitro catalytic efficiency of the enzyme more than 10-fold. Thus, aspartyl 551 and arginyl 625 appeared to function together with histidyl 547 in phosphoryl transfer involving the first phosphorylation site in the permease, whereas histidyl 183 appeared to function together with cysteyl 24 and histidyl 306 in phosphoryl transfer involving the second phosphorylation site in the permease.
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