title: The prolyl isomerase SlyD is a highly efficient enzyme but decelerates the conformational folding of a client protein.
abstract: Folding enzymes often use distinct domains for the interaction with a folding protein chain and for the catalysis of intrinsically slow reactions such as prolyl cis/trans isomerization. Here, we investigated the refolding reaction of ribonuclease T1 in the presence of the prolyl isomerase SlyD from Escherichia coli to examine how this enzyme catalyzes the folding of molecules with an incorrect trans proline isomer and how it modulates the conformational folding of the molecules with the correct cis proline. The kinetic analysis suggests that prolyl cis → trans isomerization in the SlyD-bound state shows a rate near 100 s(-1) and is thus more than 10(4)-fold accelerated, relative to the uncatalyzed reaction. As a consequence of its fast binding and efficient catalysis, SlyD retards the conformational folding of the protein molecules with the correct cis isomer, because it promotes the formation of the species with the incorrect trans isomer. In the presence of ≥1 μM SlyD, protein molecules with cis and trans prolyl isomers refold with identical rates, because SlyD-catalyzed cis/trans equilibration is faster than conformational folding. The cis or trans state of a particular proline is thus no longer a determinant for the rate of folding.
authors: Laboratorium für Biochemie und Bayreuther Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany.
authors: Gabriel
authors: G
authors: Zoldák
authors: Anne-Juliane
authors: AJ
authors: Geitner
authors: Franz X
authors: FX
authors: Schmid
mesh_terms: D001230:Aspergillus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D007536:Isomerism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D019696:Peptidylprolyl Isomerase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D011392:Proline / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D058849:Protein Refolding; D006163:Ribonuclease T1 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C085606:SlyD protein, E coli; D011392:Proline; D006163:Ribonuclease T1; D019696:Peptidylprolyl Isomerase