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Mohammad Pazhang1, Fereshteh S Younesi2, Faramarz Mehrnejad3
1Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran. pazhang@azaruniv.ac.ir.
Abstract:
Endoglucanase Cel9A from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius (AaCel9A) has an Ig-like domain and the enzyme stability is dependent to calcium. In this study the effect of calcium on the structure and stability of the wild-type enzyme and the truncated form (the wild-type enzyme without Ig-like domain, AaCel9AΔN) was investigated. Fluorescence quenching results indicated that calcium increased and decreased the rigidity of the wild-type and truncated enzymes, respectively. RMSF results indicated that AaCel9A has two flexible regions (regions A and B) and deleting the Ig-like domain increased the truncated enzyme stability by decreasing the flexibility of region B probably through increasing the hydrogen bonds. Calcium contact map analysis showed that deleting the Ig-like domain decreased the calcium contacting residues and their calcium binding affinities, especially, in region B which has a role in calcium binding site in AaCel9A. Metal depletion and activity recovering as well as stability results showed that the structure and stability of the wild-type and truncated enzymes are completely dependent on and independent of calcium, respectively. Finally, one can conclude that the deletion of Ig-like domain makes AaCel9AΔN independent of calcium via decreasing the flexibility of region B through increasing the hydrogen bonds. This suggests a new role for the Ig-like domain which makes AaCel9A structure dependent on calcium.
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