The Cys13, Pro14, Tyr15, Cys16, Arg43, Thr55, Val56, and Pro57 residues in the active sites and binding sites were mutated to evaluate the effects of these residues on enzyme activity. To generate mutant forms of Ps-Grx3, the pET-28a(+) vector was used as a template for the site-directed mutagenesis of the Cys13, Pro14, Tyr15, Cys16, Arg43, Thr55, Val56, and Pro57 residues to alanine using the QuikChange Site-directed Mutagenesis Kit (Stratagene) following the manufacturer’s instructions. The primers designed for site-directed mutagenesis are shown in
Table 1. The expression and purification of the mutant proteins were performed as described for wild-type Ps-Grx3.
For all Circular Dichroism (CD) measurements, five repeated scans were carried out to establish a baseline. Far-UV CD measurements were performed in a
0.1-cm quartz cuvette (Hellma, Germany) between 260 and 180 nm for 12 s every 1.0 nm using a bandwidth of 1.5 nm in a Jasco J-107 spectropolarimeter (Jasco, Japan). Ps-Grx3 and its mutant forms were separately diluted in a solution of 100 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0). Changes in secondary structure were presented as molar ellipticity [θ], according to the following equation: to the following equation:
in which θ is the ellipticity measured at a given wavelength
λ (deg),
n is the number of amino acids,
l is the cell path length (cm), and
c is the protein concentration (mol/L).
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