Altered Substrate Specificities by Substitutions at Tyr 218 in Bacterial Aminoglycoside 3'- Phosphotransferase – II

1992-06-01
Mutant aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase II enzymes were produced in which Tyr218 was changed to serine, aspartic acid, or phenylalanine. In each case the mutation resulted in increased bacterial susceptibility to neomycin and kanamycin, while simultaneously increasing the Km values for these substrates. For the Ser and Asp mutants, bacterial resistance to amikacin increased, with a concomitant increase in affinity for this drug. Initial velocity studies indicated that the wild-type and mutant enzymes all followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Although these mutagenic substitutions changed the substrate specificity of these enzymes they did not alter the enzyme affinity for Mg(2+)-ATP.
FEMS Microbiol. Lett

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Citation Formats
S. Kocabıyık, “Altered Substrate Specificities by Substitutions at Tyr 218 in Bacterial Aminoglycoside 3′- Phosphotransferase – II,” FEMS Microbiol. Lett, pp. 199–202, 1992, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71172.