Abstract:
To characterize the structure of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) isozymes from bacillus circulans A11. Active site, amino acid and peptide composition, and effect of glycosylation on activity and structure of isozymes were studied. The information obtained was used to analyze the formation of multiple forms of the enzyme. In the first step, isolation of four CGTase isozymes by preparative gel electrophoresis was carried out. Each isozyme was then incubated with group-specific reagents which chemically modified certain amino acids, and substrate protection using methyl-beta-cyclodextrin prior to modification was also performed. It was found that amino acids localized in the active site and were essential for activity of all isozymes were tryptophan, histidine, tyrosine, and carboxylic amino acids. In addition to these residues, serine in isozymes 2 and 4 and lysine in isozyme 3 were also prolected by the substrate suggesting their presence at the active site. For determination of N-terminal residues, amino acid and peptide composition, the result showed that N-terminus of all isozymes were APDTS which were the sam as those in unfractionated enzyme. While amino acid composition of all isozymes was similar. When peptides from tryptic digestion were analyzed by reverse phase C18-HPLC, the number and type of peptides (separated by polarity difference) from all isozymes were not different. For the effect of glycosylation on CGTase isozymes, enzymatic deglycosylation by the enzyme Endo H and PNGase F and chemical deglycosylation by trifluoromethanesulfonic acid were performed. It was found that deglycosyation had no effect on the size and net charge of all isozymes but exerted some effect on activity of isozymes 3 and 4. Anaysis of each isozyme by reverse phase C4-HPLC column showed that they were composed of two main protein peaks with different ratios. The overall data suggesls that multiple forms of CGTase was the result of post-translational modification of the transcribed and translated from of the enzyme.