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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4764
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-8
pubmed:abstractText
Steric and hydrophobic effects on substrate specificity were probed by protein engineering of subtilisin. Subtilisin has broad peptidase specificity and contains a large hydrophobic substrate binding cleft. A conserved glycine (Gly(166)), located at the bottom of the substrate binding left, was replaced by 12 nonionic amino acids by the cassette mutagenesis method. Mutant enzymes showed large changes in specificity toward substrates of increasing size and hydrophobicity. In general, the catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K(m)) toward small hydrophobic substrates was increased (up to 16 times) by hydrophobic substitutions at position 166 in the binding cleft. Exceeding the optimal binding volume of the cleft ( approximately 160 A(3)), by enlarging either the substrate side chain or the side chain at position 166, evoked precipitous drops in catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K(m)) (up to 5000 times) as a result of steric hindrance.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
233
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
659-63
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Probing steric and hydrophobic effects on enzyme-substrate interactions by protein engineering.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article