title: Structural analysis of mutant hen egg-white lysozyme preferring a minor binding mode.
abstract: Trp62 in hen egg-white lysozyme has general features observed in protein-carbohydrate interactions, a stacking interaction toward nonpolar surface of the substrate sugar residue B and a hydrogen bonding network with the residue C. Our previous report (I. Kumagai, K. Maenaka, F. Sunada, S. Takeda, K. Miura, Eur. J. Biochem. 212 (1993) 151-156.) showed that the substitution of Trp62 changed the substrate binding modes; especially, the Trp62His mutant exhibited the drastic change of the binding mode and preferred to a minor binding mode of the wild-type enzyme. In order to clarify the relationship between functional and structural changes of the Trp62His mutant, we analyzed the structure of the Trp62His mutant hen lysozyme complexed with the substrate analogue, (GlcNAc)3, by X-ray crystallography. The overall protein structure in the mutant lysozyme complex was almost identical to that in the wild-type. His62 shared almost the same plane as the indole ring of Trp62 of the wild-type. Although the (GlcNAc)3 molecule which is an inhibitor against the wild-type lysozyme was cocrystallized, the Trp62His mutant did not put it in the sites A-B-C but hydrolyzed it as a substrate. One of the products, (GlcNAc)2, whose reducing end is alpha-anomer, was bound in another binding mode sticking out from the active-site cleft. The hydrolytic activity against the synthetic substrate showed that the mutant was a beta-anomer retaining enzyme, so the alpha-anomer product was converted from the beta-anomer product. Therefore, the Trp62His mutant showed the remarkable change of the substrate binding modes not by alteration of the catalytic system but possibly by subtle rearrangement of general features of protein-carbohydrate interactions between His62 and the sugar residues B and C.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maenaka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsushima
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuroki
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kumagai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002645:Chickens; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004529:Egg White; D009113:Muramidase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000235:genetics; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013379:Substrate Specificity / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D009113:Muramidase