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Luminescence Enhancement of the Catalytic 19 KDa Protein (KAZ) of Oplophorus Luciferase by Three Amino Acid Substitutions

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Publisher Elsevier
Specialty Biochemistry
Date 2014 Feb 5
PMID 24491536
Citations 11
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To characterize the luminescence properties of nanoKAZ, a 16 amino acid substituted mutant of the catalytic 19kDa protein (KAZ) of Oplophorus luciferase, the effects of each mutated amino acid were investigated by site-specific mutagenesis. All 16 single substituted KAZ mutants were expressed in Escherichia coli cells and their secretory expressions in CHO-K1 cells were also examined using the signal peptide sequence of Gaussia luciferase. Luminescence activity of KAZ was significantly enhanced by single amino acid substitutions at V44I, A54I, or Y138I. Further, the triple mutant KAZ-V44I/A54I/Y138I, named eKAZ, was prepared and these substitutions synergistically enhanced luminescence activity, showing 66-fold higher activity than wild-KAZ and also 7-fold higher activity than nanoKAZ using coelenterazine as a substrate. Substrate specificity of eKAZ for C2- and/or C6-modified coelenterazine analogues was different from that of nanoKAZ, indicating that three amino acid substitutions may be responsible for the substrate recognition of coelenterazine to increase luminescence activity. In contrast, these substitutions did not stimulate protein secretion from CHO-K1 cells, suggesting that the folded-protein structure of KAZ might be different from that of nanoKAZ.

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