A single calcium binding site is crucial for the calcium-dependent thermal stability of thermolysin-like proteases

Biochemistry
O R VeltmanV G Eijsink

Abstract

Thermostable thermolysin-like proteases (TLPs), such as the TLP of Bacillus stearothermophilus CU-21 (TLP-ste), bind calcium in one double (Ca1,2) and two single (Ca3, Ca4) calcium binding sites. The single sites are absent in thermolabile TLPs, suggesting that they are determinants of (variation in) TLP stability. Mutations in the Ca3 and Ca4 sites of TLP-ste indeed reduced thermal stability, but only mutations in the Ca3 site affected the calcium-dependence of stability. The predominant effect of the Ca3 site results from the fact that the Ca3 site is part of a region of TLP-ste, which unfolding is crucial for thermal inactivation. Thermal inactivation is not caused by the absence of calcium from the Ca3 site per se, but rather by unfolding of a region of TLP-ste for which stability depends on the occupancy of the Ca3 site. In accordance with this concept is the observation that the effects of mutations in the Ca3 site could be compensated by stabilizing mutations near this site. In addition, it was observed that the contribution of calcium binding to the Ca3 was substantially reduced in extremely stable TLP-ste variants containing multiple stabilizing mutations in the Ca3 region. Apparently, in these latter variants, unfoldi...Continue Reading

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