In Vitro Protein Stability of Two Naturally Occurring Thiopurine S -Methyltransferase Variants: Biophysical Characterization of TPMT*6 and TPMT*8

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Patricia WennerstrandLars-Göran Mårtensson

Abstract

Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) is a polymorphic enzyme involved in the metabolism and inactivation of thiopurine substances administered as immunosuppressants in the treatment of malignancies and autoimmune diseases. In this study, the naturally occurring variants, TPMT*6 (Y180F) and TPMT*8 (R215H), have been biophysically characterized. Despite being classified as low and intermediate in vivo enzyme activity variants, respectively, our results demonstrate a discrepancy because both TPMT*6 and TPMT*8 were found to exhibit normal functionality in vitro. While TPMT*8 exhibited biophysical properties almost indistinguishable from those of TPMTwt, the TPMT*6 variant was found to be destabilized. Furthermore, the contributions of the cofactor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) to the thermodynamic stability of TPMT were investigated, but only a modest stabilizing effect was observed. Also presented herein is a new method for studies of the biophysical characteristics of TPMT and its variants using the extrinsic fluorescent probe 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid (ANS). ANS was found to bind strongly to all investigated TPMT variants with a Kd of approximately 0.2 μM and a 1:1 binding ratio as determined by isothermal titration cal...Continue Reading

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BETA
genotyping
circular dichroism
isothermal titration calorimetry

Software Mentioned

AutoDock Vina
ANS
CDpal
SIFT

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