McSorley Theresa, Ort Stephan, Hazra Saugata, Lavie Arnon, Konrad Manfred
Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Research Group Enzyme Biochemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen, Germany.
FEBS Lett. 2008 Mar 5;582(5):720-4. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.01.048. Epub 2008 Feb 5.
Intracellular phosphorylation of dCK on Ser-74 results in increased nucleoside kinase activity. We mimicked this phosphorylation by a Ser-74-Glu mutation in bacterially produced dCK and investigated kinetic parameters using various nucleoside substrates. The S74E mutation increases the k(cat) values 11-fold for dC, and 3-fold for the anti-cancer analogues dFdC and AraC. In contrast, the rate is decreased for the purine substrates. In HEK293 cells, we found that by comparing transiently transfected dCK(S74E)-GFP and wild-type dCK-GFP, mimicking the phosphorylation of Ser-74 has no effect on cellular localisation. We note that phosphorylation may represent a mechanism to enhance the catalytic activity of the relatively slow dCK enzyme.
脱氧胞苷激酶(dCK)在丝氨酸74位点的细胞内磷酸化会导致核苷激酶活性增加。我们通过在细菌产生的dCK中引入丝氨酸74突变为谷氨酸(Ser-74-Glu)来模拟这种磷酸化,并使用各种核苷底物研究动力学参数。S74E突变使dC的催化常数(k(cat))值增加11倍,使抗癌类似物2'-脱氧氟代胞苷(dFdC)和阿糖胞苷(AraC)的k(cat)值增加3倍。相比之下,嘌呤底物的反应速率降低。在人胚肾293(HEK293)细胞中,我们发现通过比较瞬时转染的dCK(S74E)-绿色荧光蛋白(GFP)和野生型dCK-GFP,模拟丝氨酸74的磷酸化对细胞定位没有影响。我们注意到磷酸化可能是一种增强相对较慢的dCK酶催化活性的机制。