Role of unique basic residues of human pancreatic ribonuclease in its catalysis and structural stability

Dey, Punyatirtha ; Islam, Asimul ; Ahmad, Faizan ; Batra, Janendra K. (2007) Role of unique basic residues of human pancreatic ribonuclease in its catalysis and structural stability Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 360 (4). pp. 809-814. ISSN 0006-291X

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Abstract

Human pancreatic ribonuclease (HPR) and bovine RNase A belong to the RNase A superfamily and possess similar key structural and catalytic residues. Compared to RNase A, HPR has six extra non-catalytic basic residues and high double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) cleavage activity. We mutated four of these basic residues, K6, R32, K62, and K74 to alanine and characterized the variants for function and stability. Only the variant K74A had an altered secondary structure. Whereas R32A and K62A had full catalytic activity, the mutants K6A and K74A had reduced activity on both ssRNA and dsRNA. The mutations of K62 and K74 resulted in reduction in protein stability and DNA double helix unwinding activity of HPR; while substitutions of K6 and R32 did not affect either the stability or helix unwinding activity. The reduced catalytic and DNA melting activities of K74A mutant appear to be an outcome of its altered secondary structure. The basic residues studied here, appear to contribute to the overall stability, folding, and general catalytic activity of HPR.

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Keywords:RNase A; RNA; Ribonuclease; Ribonucleolytic Protein; HPR
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