Abstract

It is typically difficult to increase enzymatic activity by introducing substitutions into a natural enzyme. However, it was previously found that the ST0452 protein, a thermostable enzyme from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii, exhibited increased activity following single amino acid substitutions of Ala. In this study, ST0452 proteins exhibiting a further increase in activity were created using a site saturation mutagenesis strategy at the 97th position. Kinetic analyses showed that the increased activities of the mutant proteins were principally due to increased apparent kcat values. These mutant proteins might suggest clues regarding the mechanism underlying the reaction process and provide very important information for the design of synthetic improved enzymes, and they can be used as powerful biocatalysts for the production of sugar nucleotide molecules. Moreover, this work generated useful proteins for three-dimensional structural analysis clarifying the processes underlying the regulation and mechanism of enzymatic activity.

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