酶利用基質(zhì)結(jié)合能來促進(jìn)基態(tài)結(jié)合和選擇性地降低反應(yīng)過渡態(tài)的能量。Thyme等人已確定，對單體“歸巢”核酸內(nèi)切酶I-AniI（該酶能以高序列特異性分解雙鏈DNA）來說,，這種酶的N-端區(qū)域的突變造成某些運(yùn)動參數(shù)（KA 和 KM）增加，而C-端區(qū)域的突變則減小另一運(yùn)動參數(shù)（kcat）。在利用酶基質(zhì)結(jié)合能進(jìn)行催化方面的這一出乎意料的非對稱性，也許使研究人員能夠更有效地重新設(shè)計(jì)核酸內(nèi)切酶,，來分解基因組目標(biāo)點(diǎn),，用于基因療法和其他生物醫(yī)學(xué)應(yīng)用。（生物谷Bioon.com）
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Nature 461, 1300-1304 (29 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/nature08508
Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design
Summer B. Thyme1,3, Jordan Jarjour2,5, Ryo Takeuchi6, James J. Havranek7, Justin Ashworth1,3, Andrew M. Scharenberg2,5, Barry L. Stoddard3,6 & David Baker1,3,4
1 Department of Biochemistry,
2 Department of Immunology,
3 Graduate Program in Biomolecular Structure and Design,
4 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
5 Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute, 1900 9th Ave M/S C9S-7, Seattle, Washington 98177, USA
6 Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
7 Department of Genetics, Campus Box 8232, Washington University School of Medicine, 4566 Scott Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Correspondence to: Summer B. Thyme1,3David Baker1,3,4 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to S.B.T. or D.B.
Enzymes use substrate-binding energy both to promote ground-state association and to stabilize the reaction transition state selectively1. The monomeric homing endonuclease I-AniI cleaves with high sequence specificity in the centre of a 20-base-pair (bp) DNA target site, with the amino (N)-terminal domain of the enzyme making extensive binding interactions with the left (-) side of the target site and the similarly structured carboxy (C)-terminal domain interacting with the right (+) side2. Here we show that, despite the approximate twofold symmetry of the enzyme–DNA complex, there is almost complete segregation of interactions responsible for substrate binding to the (-) side of the interface and interactions responsible for transition-state stabilization to the (+) side. Although single base-pair substitutions throughout the entire DNA target site reduce catalytic efficiency, mutations in the (-) DNA half-site almost exclusively increase the dissociation constant (K D) and the Michaelis constant under single-turnover conditions (K M*), and those in the (+) half-site primarily decrease the turnover number (k cat*). The reduction of activity produced by mutations on the (-) side, but not mutations on the (+) side, can be suppressed by tethering the substrate to the endonuclease displayed on the surface of yeast. This dramatic asymmetry in the use of enzyme–substrate binding energy for catalysis has direct relevance to the redesign of endonucleases to cleave genomic target sites for gene therapy and other applications. Computationally redesigned enzymes that achieve new specificities on the (-) side do so by modulating K M*, whereas redesigns with altered specificities on the (+) side modulate k cat*. Our results illustrate how classical enzymology and modern protein design can each inform the other.
