发布: 2017年06月20日第7卷第12期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2349 浏览次数: 9769
评审: Yanjie LiAyelign M. AdalAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
α-glucosidases (including maltases and isomaltases) are enzymes which release glucose from a set of α-glucosidic substrates. Their catalytic activity, substrate specificity and thermostability can be assayed using this trait. Thermostability of proteins can also be determined using a high-throughput differential scanning fluorometry method, also named Thermofluor. We have shown that Thermofluor can also be applied to predict binding of substrates and inhibitors to a yeast α-glucosidase. The methods described here in detail were used in Viigand et al., 2016.
Keywords: Maltase (麦芽糖酶)Background
Maltases (EC 3.2.1.20) and isomaltases (EC 3.2.1.10) are α-glucosidases belonging to family 13 of glycoside hydrolases according to the CAZy classification (Lombard et al., 2014). Maltase MAL1 of a methylotrophic yeast Ogataea polymorpha is nonselective–it hydrolyses maltose- and isomaltose-like α-glucosidic sugars producing D-glucose as one of the reaction products. Thus, activity of maltase on its substrates can be determined according to glucose release. The Glucose liquicolor-aided method described in this work allows rapid and convenient assay of the activity, substrate specificity and thermostability of the maltase. Importantly, this activity-based method can be adapted to other enzymes that produce glucose as a reaction product. A high-throughput Thermofluor method is mostly used in protein crystallography to measure (thermal) stability of the protein (Boivin et al., 2013; Ericsson et al., 2006). We used Thermofluor 1) to evaluate thermostability of the maltase protein and 2) to study its substrate specificity (Viigand et al., 2016). Substrate specificity assay of glycoside hydrolases and other sugar-acting enzymes using Thermofluor is cost-efficient–it requires very low amounts of the protein as well as ligand sugars that can be very expensive. Regarding substrates of α-glucosidases, one gram of isomaltose from Sigma-Aldrich costs almost 1,000 euros, 10 milligrams of nigerose 143 euros and 1 mg of kojibiose almost 200 euros.
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Note: A classical thermostability assay of the maltase is based on determination of residual catalytic activity of the enzyme after its incubation at various temperatures. Therefore, we first give the protocol for the measurement of maltase activity.
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Ernits, K., Viigand, K., Visnapuu, T., Põšnograjeva, K. and Alamäe, T. (2017). Thermostability Measurement of an α-Glucosidase Using a Classical Activity-based Assay and a Novel Thermofluor Method. Bio-protocol 7(12): e2349. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2349.
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生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 荧光
生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 活性
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