Abstract
Chemical modification implicates arginine residues of the Cerebratulus lacteus neurotoxin B-IV in biological activity. In the present study, we used site-directed mutagenesis to assess the functional contributions of each of these residues. Panels of mutants at each site have been constructed by polymerase chain reaction and recombinant proteins expressed and purified to homogeneity using an Escherichia coli expression system developed in this laboratory. All substitutions for Arg-17 (Gln, Ala, or Lys) yield proteins having undetectable levels of activity, while charge neutralizing replacement of Arg-25 (R25Q) causes a 400-fold reduction in specific toxicity. However, the R25K mutein is almost as active as natural toxin. Circular dichroism spectroscopy indicates that there are no major conformational changes in any of these muteins. These results therefore demonstrate the requirement for a guanidinium group at position 17, and a positive charge at position 25. NMR analyses (Hansen, P. E., Kem, W. R., Bieber, A. L., and Norton, R. S. (1992) Eur. J. Biochem. 210, 231-240) reveal neurotoxin B-IV to contain two antiparallel alpha-helices, which together include 57% of the sequence. Both Arg-17 and Arg-25 lie on the same face of the...Continue Reading
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