A salt link buried in the domain interface of phosphoglycerate kinase has been implicated as being important in controlling the conformational transition from the open, or substrate-binding, to the closed, or catalytically competent, form of the enzyme. The residues contributing to the salt link are remote from the active site, but are connected to the substrate-binding sites through strands of beta-sheet. It has been suggested that these residues may also mediate sulphate and anion activation. These assumptions have been tested by examining the properties of a site-directed mutant (histidine-388----glutamine-388). The expression and overall structural integrity of the mutant, produced in yeast from a multicopy plasmid, remains essentially unaltered from the wild-type enzyme. However, the mutant enzyme has a kcat. reduced by 5-fold. The Km for ATP is lowered by 3-fold, and the Km for 3-phosphoglycerate is unaffected. The effects of sulphate on activity over a wide range of substrate concentrations appear to be the same for both the mutant and wild-type enzymes. These results lead to a reappraisal of the mechanistic role of the inter-domain histidine-glutamate interaction, as well as a refinement of the kinetic model of the enzyme.

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Wilson CA, Hardman N, Fothergill-Gilmore LA, Gamblin SJ, Watson HC

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