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Volume 272, Number 10, Issue of March 7, 1997 pp. 6174-6178
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Roles of Disulfide Bonds in Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase

(Received for publication, October 24, 1996)

From the Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan

Alkaline phosphatase of Escherichia coli (a homodimeric protein found in the periplasmic space) contains two intramolecular disulfide bonds (Cys-168-Cys-178 and Cys-286-Cys-336) that are formed after export to the periplasmic space. The location-specific folding character of this enzyme allowed its wide usage as a reporter of protein localization in prokaryotic cells. To study the roles of disulfide bonds in alkaline phosphatase, we eliminated each of them by Cys to Ser mutations. Intracellular stability of alkaline phosphatase decreased in the absence of either one or both of the disulfide bonds. The mutant proteins were stabilized in a DegP protease-deficient strain, allowing accumulation at significant levels and subsequent characterization. A mutant protein that lacked the N-terminally located disulfide bond (Cys-168-Cys-178) was found to have Cys-286 and Cys-336 residues disulfide-bonded, to have a dimeric structure, and to have almost full enzymatic activity. Nevertheless, the mutant protein lost the trypsin-resistant conformation that is characteristically observed for the wild-type enzyme. In contrast, mutants lacking Cys-286 and Cys-336 were monomeric and inactive. These results indicate that the Cys-286-Cys-336 disulfide bond is required and is sufficient for correctly positioning the active site region of this enzyme, but such an active conformation is still insufficient for the conformational stability of the enzyme. Thus, a fully active state of this enzyme can be formed without full protein stability, and the two disulfide bonds differentially contribute to these properties.

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