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- Title
A meta-analysis of the activity, stability, and mutational characteristics of temperature-adapted enzymes.
- Authors
Gault, Stewart; Higgins, Peter M.; Cockell, Charles S.; Gillies, Kaitlyn
- Abstract
Understanding the characteristics that define temperature-adapted enzymes has been a major goal of extremophile enzymology in recent decades. In the present study, we explore these characteristics by comparing psychrophilic, mesophilic, and thermophilic enzymes. Through a meta-analysis of existing data, we show that psychrophilic enzymes exhibit a significantly larger gap (Tg) between their optimum and melting temperatures compared with mesophilic and thermophilic enzymes. These results suggest that Tg may be a useful indicator as to whether an enzyme is psychrophilic or not and that models of psychrophilic enzyme catalysis need to account for this gap. Additionally, by using predictive protein stability software, HoTMuSiC and PoPMuSiC, we show that the deleterious nature of amino acid substitutions to protein stability increases from psychrophiles to thermophiles. How this ultimately affects the mutational tolerance and evolutionary rate of temperature adapted organisms is currently unknown.
- Subjects
PROTEIN stability; ENZYMES; AMINO acids; ENZYMOLOGY
- Publication
Bioscience Reports, 2021, Vol 41, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0144-8463
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1042/BSR20210336