TY - JOUR
T1 - A site-directed mutagenesis study on the role of isoleucine-23 of human epidermal growth factor in the receptor binding
AU - Koide, Hiroshi
AU - Muto, Yutaka
AU - Kasai, Hidefumi
AU - Kohri, Kaoru
AU - Hoshi, Kumiko
AU - Takahashi, Seizo
AU - Tsukumo, Ken ichi
AU - Sasaki, Tetsuyuki
AU - Oka, Takanori
AU - Miyake, Tetsuo
AU - Fuwa, Tohru
AU - Kohda, Daisuke
AU - Inagaki, Fuyuhiko
AU - Miyazawa, Tatsuo
AU - Yokoyama, Shigeyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid 02250106 foSrc ientificR esearchi n Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.
PY - 1992/4/17
Y1 - 1992/4/17
N2 - The isoleucine-23 residue of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) was substituted by a variety of amino acid residues and the receptor-binding activities of variant hEGFs were determined by the use of human KB cell. Tight receptor binding was found of variants with hydrophobic amino acid residues in position 23. The size of the isoleucine residue was nearly optimum for the receptor binding as compared with other hydrophobic residues. The structure analysis by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy showed that the substitution at position 23 only slightly affected the tertiary structure of hEGF. These indicate that the side chain of isoleucine residue in position 23, which is exposed on the protein surface, directly binds to a hydrophobic pocket of the receptor.
AB - The isoleucine-23 residue of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) was substituted by a variety of amino acid residues and the receptor-binding activities of variant hEGFs were determined by the use of human KB cell. Tight receptor binding was found of variants with hydrophobic amino acid residues in position 23. The size of the isoleucine residue was nearly optimum for the receptor binding as compared with other hydrophobic residues. The structure analysis by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy showed that the substitution at position 23 only slightly affected the tertiary structure of hEGF. These indicate that the side chain of isoleucine residue in position 23, which is exposed on the protein surface, directly binds to a hydrophobic pocket of the receptor.
KW - Epidermal growth factor
KW - Human epidermal growth factor receptor
KW - NMR
KW - Protein engineering
KW - Site-directed mutagenesis
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-4838(92)90245-9
DO - 10.1016/0167-4838(92)90245-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 1576151
AN - SCOPUS:0026518978
SN - 1570-9639
VL - 1120
SP - 257
EP - 261
JO - BBA - Protein Structure
JF - BBA - Protein Structure
IS - 3
ER -