Increase in ADP-ribosyltransferase activity of rat T lymphocyte alloantigen RT6.1 by a single amino acid mutation
- 17 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 388 (2-3), 189-191
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(96)00568-6
Abstract
A family of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked ADP-ribosyltransferases, of which cDNAs were cloned from various mammalian cells, possess a common Glu-rich motif (EEEVLIP) near their carboxyl termini. Although the first Glu in the common motif is replaced by Gln (Q207EEVLIP) in rat T lymphocyte alloantigens RT6.1 and RT6.2, the two RT6s appear to have both activities of NAD+ glycohydrolase and ADP-ribosyltransferase to a lesser extent. To investigate the significance of the Glu-rich motif in the two enzyme activities, we produced a mutant RT6.1 (Q207E), in which Gln207 was replaced by Glu, together with wild-type RT6s, in Escherichia coli. Kinetic analysis revealed that there were no marked differences in the Vmax and Km values of NAD+ glycohydrolases among the three recombinant proteins. The recombinant RT6.1 and RT6.2 displayed extremely low auto-ADP-ribosylation, although the latter modification was somewhat higher than the former. In contrast, much greater auto-modification was observed for the Q207E mutant. Moreover, the mutant could effectively ADP-ribosylate agmatine as a substrate. Thus, the single amino acid mutation of RT6.1 caused a marked increase in its ADP-ribosyltransferase activity, indicating that the Glu-rich motif near the carboxy terminus plays an important role in the enzyme activity.Keywords
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