Variants of human dihydrofolate reductase with substitutions at Leucine-22: Effect on catalytic and inhibitor binding properties Journal Article
| Authors: | Ercikan-Abali, E. A.; Waltham, M. C.; Dicker, A. P.; Schweitzer, B. I.; Gritsman, H.; Banerjee, D.; Bertino, J. R. |
| Article Title: | Variants of human dihydrofolate reductase with substitutions at Leucine-22: Effect on catalytic and inhibitor binding properties |
| Abstract: | We investigated the enzyme kinetic and antifolate inhibitory properties of human dihydrofolate reductase enzyme with mutations at position 22. Leu-22 was changed to isoleucine, methionine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine to generate the various mutant enzymes. The overall catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) for methionine and phenylalanine mutants was reduced ∼3-fold and >6-fold for isoleucine and tyrosine mutants. An arginine mutant (L22R) was also expressed but had a dramatically reduced catalytic potential (kcat >250-fold lower than wild-type) and therefore was not studied in detail. The Kl for antifolates, methotrexate, aminopterin, and trimetrexate are more dramatically affected (increased) than the Km for dihydrofolate, particularly for phenylalanine and tyrosine mutants. One remarkable feature is that the phenylalanine mutant is as potently inhibited by piritrexim as is the wild-type human enzyme, although the Kl values for methotrexate and aminopterin were increased 88-and 118-fold, respectively. This is likely related to different positioning of the methoxyphenyl side chain of piritrexim relative to the side chains of other compounds tested. A Chinese hamster cell line harboring the L22F mutant also demonstrated an increased sensitivity to piritrexim relative to antifolates. |
| Keywords: | mutation; methotrexate; mutant protein; animals; cells, cultured; amino acid substitution; enzyme activity; structure-activity relationship; molecular sequence data; kinetics; enzyme analysis; enzyme inhibitors; base sequence; isoleucine; catalysis; enzyme kinetics; leucine; dihydrofolate reductase; folic acid antagonist; folic acid antagonists; tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase; mutagenesis; aminopterin; cho cell; cho cells; cricetinae; trimetrexate; variation (genetics); piritrexim; humans; human; priority journal; article; enzyme inhibitor interaction |
| Journal Title: | Molecular Pharmacology |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| ISSN: | 0026-895X |
| Publisher: | The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics |
| Date Published: | 1996-03-01 |
| Start Page: | 430 |
| End Page: | 437 |
| Language: | English |
| PUBMED: | 8643082 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Article -- Export Date: 22 November 2017 -- Source: Scopus |
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