Kuppens S, Díaz J F, Engelborghs Y
Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
Protein Sci. 1999 Sep;8(9):1860-6. doi: 10.1110/ps.8.9.1860.
This work experimentally confirms the pathway of activation of Ha-ras-p21, which was calculated by the method of Targeted Molecular Dynamics (TMD) (Díaz JF, Wroblowski B, Schlitter J, Engelborghs Y, 1997a, Proteins Struct Funct Genet 28:434-451). The process can be studied experimentally by analyzing the binding of BeF3- to the GDP complex of the active fluorescent mutant Y32W (Díaz JF, Sillen A, Engelborghs Y, 1997b, J Biol Chem 227:23138-23143). Two mutants, V29G and 136G, have been constructed at both sides of the effector loop of the active fluorescent mutant. This was done to check the proposed reaction pathway and to provide further insight into the mechanism of the activation of ras proteins. Both mutations accelerate the conformational isomerization with two orders of magnitude, demonstrating convincingly the role of these residues as hinges of the effector loop in one or more of the transitions of the conformational change. These results provide experimental support to the pathway calculated by TMD analysis.
这项工作通过实验证实了Ha-ras-p21的激活途径,该途径是通过靶向分子动力学(TMD)方法计算得出的(迪亚兹JF、沃罗布罗斯基B、施利特J、恩格尔博格斯Y,1997a,《蛋白质结构、功能与遗传学》28:434 - 451)。可以通过分析BeF3-与活性荧光突变体Y32W的GDP复合物的结合来对该过程进行实验研究(迪亚兹JF、西伦A、恩格尔博格斯Y,1997b,《生物化学杂志》227:23138 - 23143)。在活性荧光突变体的效应环两侧构建了两个突变体V29G和I36G。这样做是为了检验所提出的反应途径,并进一步深入了解ras蛋白的激活机制。这两个突变均使构象异构化加速了两个数量级,令人信服地证明了这些残基在构象变化的一个或多个转变中作为效应环铰链的作用。这些结果为通过TMD分析计算出的途径提供了实验支持。