Peptide Mapping of Subtilisins as a Practical Tool for Locating Protein Sequence Errors during Extensive Protein Engineering Projects
✍ Scribed by T. Christianson; C. Paech
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 735 KB
- Volume
- 223
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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✦ Synopsis
Protein engineering based on rational design is an iterative process of sequential amino acid residue replacements. This requires a rapid and sensitive method for checking the protein sequence after each round of mutagenesis. As shown with subtilisin BL, acid treatment followed by urea denaturation renders the enzyme degradable by trypsin within (10 \mathrm{~min}). Separation of the peptides by reversed-phase HPLC produces a map that differentiates even the most conservative alteration on peptides as large as 48 amino acid residues. The method was used to uncover erroneous mutations; to determine the concentration of active protease relative to an internal standard of known specific activity; to measure the rate of oxidation of methionine-216 in the oxyanion hole of subtilisin (\mathrm{BL}); and to document that under these conditions no other methionine in the molecule is oxidized by hydrogen peroxide. & 1994 Academic Press, Inc.