Protein splicing: estimation of the rate of O‐N and S‐N acyl rearrangements, the last step of the splicing process
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Chemical Biology & Drug Design
- Vol. 50 (3) , 193-198
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3011.1997.tb01185.x
Abstract
The last step in the sequence of reactions that lead to protein splicing is the intramolecular O-N or S-N acyl rearrangement of the ester or thioester linkage, respectively, between the two exteins and hydrolysis of the aminosuccinimide residue at the C-terminus of intein. This paper presents data on the rates of O-N and S-N acyl rearrangements of two model depsipeptides as a function of pH and temperature. The rates of rearrangement of both the oxygen ester and the thioester depsipeptide increased strikingly with pH, with the thioester being about 103 times more reactive at pH 5.5, and had a relatively low dependence on temperature, indicative of a low activating energy. The rates of O-N and S-N acyl rearrangement of these two model depsipeptides greatly exceed the rate of protein splicing, explaining why the last step of protein splicing can occur without catalysis by the intein.Keywords
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