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Volume 271, Number 40, Issue of October 4, 1996 pp. 24736-24740
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Identification of Residues of Spinach Thioredoxin f That Influence Interactions with Target Enzymes

(Received for publication, July 2, 1996)

Mary K. Geck , Frank W. Larimer ^§ and Fred C. Hartman

From the ^§ Protein Engineering Program, Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the  University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

The necessity for two types of thioredoxins (Trx f and m) within chloroplasts of higher plants that mediate the same redox chemistry with various target enzymes is not well understood. To approach this complex issue, we have applied site-directed mutagenesis to the identification of residues of Trx f that affect its binding to and selectivity for target enzymes. Based upon amino acid sequence alignments and the three-dimensional structure of Escherichia coli thioredoxin, putative key residues of Trx f were replaced with residues found at corresponding positions of Trx m to generate the mutants K58E, Q75D, N74D, and deletion mutants Asn-74 and Asn-77. Kinetics of activation of oxidized recombinant sorghum leaf NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase and oxidized spinach chloroplastic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase by wild-type Trx f, wild-type Trx m, and Trx f mutants were compared. All of the mutants are less efficient than wild-type Trx f in the activation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase and are altered in both S_0.5 and V_max. In contrast to literature reports, the activation of NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase does not display rate saturation kinetics with respect to the concentration of Trx f, thereby signifying very weak interactions between the two proteins. The mutants of Trx f likewise interact only weakly with NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase, but the apparent second-order rate constants for activation are increased compared to that with wild-type Trx f. Thus, Lys-58, Asn-74, Gln-75, and Asn-77 of Trx f contribute to its interaction with target enzymes and influence target protein selectivity.

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