RESUMO
Unknown, specific mutations in the sequence of an enzyme variant (a Bacillus subtilisin protease) produced by protein engineering were identified using High-performance Liquid Chromatographic/Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometric (HPLC/FAB MS) techniques. The variant and the highly homologous wild-type enzyme were treated with CNBr followed by tryptic digestion. The resulting peptides were analysed using HPLC/frit FAB MS. The peptides with molecular masses beyond the range of the HPLC/MS system under the chosen scanning conditions were collected using HPLC and subsequently analysed 'off-line' using static FAB MS. This procedure allowed the complete amino acid sequence determination of the variant protease using the known amino acid sequence of the wild-type enzyme as reference.
Assuntos
Subtilisinas/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Bacillus subtilis/enzimologia , Bacillus subtilis/genética , Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Pressão , Brometo de Cianogênio , Engenharia Genética , Hidrólise , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutação , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/análise , Proteínas Recombinantes/análise , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Espectrometria de Massas de Bombardeamento Rápido de Átomos , Subtilisinas/análise , TripsinaRESUMO
Analysis of the primary structure of the gene for yeast ribosomal protein S31 revealed two unusual features. First, an intron of 312 nucleotides is located within the 5'-untranslated region. Second, the coding sequence for the known amino-terminal peptide of the protein starts 13 codons downstream of the ATG initiation codon, suggesting that S31 is synthesized as a precursor which undergoes post-translational processing to the mature protein. Primer extension analysis showed that transcription of the S31 gene starts at multiple sites. The 5'-flanking region of the gene contains several, previously described, conserved sequence elements that may play a role in the coordinate expression of yeast ribosomal protein genes.