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Conformational and Dynamic Changes of Yersinia Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Induced by Ligand Binding and Active Site Mutation and Revealed by H/D Exchange and Electrospray Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry

1998; American Chemical Society; Volume: 37; Issue: 44 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/bi981481q

1943-295X

Fang Wang, Weiqun Li, Mark R. Emmett, Christopher L. Hendrickson, Alan G. Marshall, Yanling Zhang, Li Wu, Zhong-Yin Zhang,

Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPase) play important roles in the intracellular signal transduction pathways that regulate cell transformation, growth, and proliferation. Here, solvent accessibility is determined for backbone amide protons from various segments of wild-type Yersinia PTPase in the presence or absence of 220 μM vanadate, a competitive inhibitor, as well as an active site mutant in which the essential cysteine 403 has been replaced by serine (C403S). The method consists of solution-phase H/D exchange, followed by pepsin digestion, high-performance liquid chromatography, and electrospray ionization high-field (9.4 T) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Proteolytic segments spanning ∼93.5% of the primary sequence are analyzed. Binding of vanadate reduces the H/D exchange rate throughout the protein, both for the WpD loop and for numerous other residues that are shielded when that loop is pulled down over the active site on binding of the inhibitor. The single active site C403S mutation reduces solvent access to the WpD loop itself, but opens up the structure in several other segments. Although the 3D structure of the ligand-bound C403S mutant is similar to that of the wild-type PTPase, and the C403S mutant and the wild-type enzyme display similar affinities for vanadate, the thermodynamics for binding of vanadate is different for the two proteins. Collectively, these results establish the flexibility of the WpD loop (previously inferred by comparing PTPase X-ray single-cyrstal diffraction structures in the presence and absence of a tungstate inhibitor), as well as several other signficant changes in segment exposure and/or flexibility that are not evident from X-ray structures.