PMID:8078761

Citation	Friedhoff, P, Gimadutdinow, O and Pingoud, A (1994) Identification of catalytically relevant amino acids of the extracellular Serratia marcescens endonuclease by alignment-guided mutagenesis. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:3280-7
Abstract	By sequence alignment of the extracellular Serratia marcescens nuclease with three related nucleases we have identified seven charged amino acid residues which are conserved in all four sequences. Six of these residues together with four other partially conserved His or Asp residues were changed to alanine by site-directed PCR-mediated mutagenesis using a variant of the nuclease gene in which the coding sequence of the signal peptide was replaced by the coding sequence for an N-terminal affinity tag [Met(His)6GlySer]. Four of the mutant proteins showed almost no reduction in nuclease activity but five displayed a 10- to 1000-fold reduction in activity and one (His110Ala) was inactive. Based upon these results it is suggested that the S.marcescens nuclease employs a mechanism in which His110 acts in concert with a Mg2+ ion and three carboxylates (Asp107, Glu148 and Glu232) as well as one or two basic amino acid residues (Arg108, Arg152).
Links	PubMed PMC523719
Keywords	Amino Acid Sequence; Amino Acids/analysis; Base Sequence; Binding Sites; Catalysis; Circular Dichroism; DNA/metabolism; Endodeoxyribonucleases/chemistry; Endoribonucleases/chemistry; Escherichia coli/genetics; Histidine; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sequence Alignment; Structure-Activity Relationship
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Annotations

Gene product	Qualifier	GO Term	Evidence Code	with/from	Aspect	Extension	Notes	Status
SERMA:NUCA		GO:0003676: nucleic acid binding	ECO:0000269:		F		Figure 3	complete CACAO 3388

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