An Increase in Apparent Affinity for Sucrose of Mung Bean Sucrose Synthase Is Caused by In Vitro Phoshorylation or Directed Mutagenesis of Ser^<11>

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A mutational analysis of mung bean(Vigna radiata Wilczek) sucrose synthase was performed by site-directed mutagenesis of the recombinant protein expressed in Escherichia coli, in which two different acidic amino acid residuse(Asp or Glu) were introduced at Ser^<11>(S11D, S11E). Only the wild-type enzyme(Ser^<11>) was phosphorylated in vitro by a Ca^<2+>-dependent protein kinase from soybean root nodules, suggesting that this is the specific target residue in mung bean sucrose synthase. The apparent affinity for sucrose was increased in this phosphorylated enzme and also in the S11D and S11E mutant enzymes, although the affinities for UDP-glucose and fructose were similar in the wild-type, phosphorylated wild-type, and mutant enzymes. These results suggest that a monoanionic(1^-) side chain at position 11 mimics the Ser^<11>-P^<2-> residue to bind and cleave sucrose for the synthesis of UDP-glucose. Since the S11E mutant enzyme showed the lowest K_m(sucrose) and the highest catalytic efficiency of the recombinant proteins, the enzymic properties of this S11E mutant were further characterized. The results showed that replacement of Ser^<11> with Glu^<11> modestly protected the sucrose synthesis activity against phenolic glycosides and altered the enzyme nucleotide specificity. We postulate that the introduction of negative change at Ser^<11> is possibly involved in the enzymatic perturbation of sucrose synthase.
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