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  • Biochemistry
  • Protein Engineering
  • Enzymology

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  • Rheostat positions allow amino acid substitutions to tune protein function, crucial for personalized medicine and bioengineering.
  • Predicting rheostat positions and their outcomes remains challenging.
  • Previous work showed human liver pyruvate kinase (PYK) has functional rheostat positions, but Zymomonas mobilis PYK (ZmPYK) did not.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the prevalence and functional outcomes of rheostat positions in ZmPYK.
  • To determine if previously inactive ZmPYK substitution variants could be reactivated and exhibit tunable function.
  • To assess the impact of substitutions on ZmPYK stability.

Main Methods:

  • Enzymatic assays using modified buffers to measure kinetic parameters (Kapp-PEP) of ZmPYK substitution variants.
  • Thermal denaturation experiments to evaluate protein stability.
  • Comparative analysis of ZmPYK and human liver PYK rheostat position characteristics.

Main Results:

  • Modified buffers reactivated 19 previously inactive ZmPYK variants, but none showed tunable Kapp-PEP.
  • All ZmPYK substitution variants tested exhibited Kapp-PEP values near wild-type, indicating no functional rheostat positions.
  • Thermal denaturation revealed substitutions impacted ZmPYK stability, with one position identified as a 'stability rheostat'.

Conclusions:

  • ZmPYK's phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) affinity is not tunable by single amino acid substitutions at the investigated positions.
  • Unlike human PYK, ZmPYK lacks functional rheostat positions for enzyme activity tuning.
  • Protein stability, not function, is modulated by substitutions at one ZmPYK position, highlighting mechanistic differences between PYK homologs.