Enhancing the activity of protein C by mutagenesis to improve the membrane-binding site: studies related to proline-10

Biochemistry
L ShenGary L Nelsestuen

Abstract

Bovine and human protein C show high homology in the amino acids of their GLA domains (amino-terminal 44 residues), despite the about 10-fold higher membrane affinity of the human protein. A proposed membrane contact site and mechanism suggested that this difference was largely due to the presence of proline at position 10 of bovine protein C versus histidine at position 10 of human protein C [McDonald, J.F., Shah, A.M., Schwalbe, R.A., Kisiel, W., Dahlback, B., and Nelsestuen, G.L. (1997) Biochemistry, 36, 5120-5127]. This study examined the impact of replacing proline-10 in bovine protein C with histidine, and the reverse change in human protein C. In both cases, the protein containing proline-10 showed lower membrane affinity, about 10-fold lower for bovine protein C and 5-fold lower for human protein C. As expected, activated human protein C (hAPC) containing proline at position 10 showed 2.4-3.5-fold lower activity than wild type hAPC, depending on the assay used. Most interesting was that bovine APC containing histidine-10 displayed up to 15-fold higher activity than wild type bAPC. This demonstrated the ability to improve both membrane contact and activity by mutation. This general strategy should be applicable to other ...Continue Reading

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