Issue 5, 2018

Rate constants, processivity, and productive binding ratio of chitinase A revealed by single-molecule analysis

Abstract

Serratia marcescens chitinase A is a linear molecular motor that hydrolyses crystalline chitin in a processive manner. Here, we quantitatively determined the rate constants of elementary reaction steps, including binding (kon), translational movement (ktr), and dissociation (koff) with single-molecule fluorescence imaging. The kon for a single chitin microfibril was 2.1 × 109 M−1 μm−1 s−1. The koff showed two components, kfastoff (3.2 s−1, 78%) and kslowoff (0.38 s−1, 22%), corresponding to bindings to different crystal surfaces. From the kon, kfastoff, kslowoff and ratio of fast and slow dissociations, dissociation constants for low and high affinity sites were estimated as 2.0 × 10−9 M μm and 8.1 × 10−10 M μm, respectively. The ktr was 52.5 nm s−1, and processivity was estimated as 60.4. The apparent inconsistency between high turnover (52.5 s−1) calculated from ktr and biochemically determined low kcat (2.6 s−1) is explained by a low ratio (4.8%) of productive enzymes on the chitin surface (52.5 s−1 × 0.048 = 2.5 s−1). Our results highlight the importance of single-molecule analysis in understanding the mechanism of enzymes acting on a solid–liquid interface.

Graphical abstract: Rate constants, processivity, and productive binding ratio of chitinase A revealed by single-molecule analysis

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Jul 2017
Accepted
24 Okt 2017
First published
24 Okt 2017

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018,20, 3010-3018

Rate constants, processivity, and productive binding ratio of chitinase A revealed by single-molecule analysis

A. Nakamura, T. Tasaki, Y. Okuni, C. Song, K. Murata, T. Kozai, M. Hara, H. Sugimoto, K. Suzuki, T. Watanabe, T. Uchihashi, H. Noji and R. Iino, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 3010 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04606E

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