Lee M H, Zhang Z H, MacKinnon C H, Baldwin J E, Crouch N P
Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK.
FEBS Lett. 1996 Sep 16;393(2-3):269-72. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00902-7.
We have cloned and overexpressed rat 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (4HPPD) in Escherichia coli. The soluble, active recombinant enzyme was shown to contain both 4HPPD and alpha-ketoisocaproate dioxygenase (alpha KICD) activity. However, upon truncation of the 14 amino acids at the C-terminus by site-directed mutagenesis, the resulting mutant enzyme (rat F antigen) exhibited complete loss of 4HPPD and alpha KICD activities. This finding suggests that the C-terminal extension domain plays an essential role in the catalytic activity of the enzyme.
我们已在大肠杆菌中克隆并过量表达了大鼠4-羟基苯丙酮酸双加氧酶(4HPPD)。可溶性的活性重组酶显示同时具有4HPPD和α-酮异己酸双加氧酶(αKICD)活性。然而,通过定点诱变在C末端截短14个氨基酸后,所得突变酶(大鼠F抗原)表现出4HPPD和αKICD活性完全丧失。这一发现表明C末端延伸结构域在该酶的催化活性中起关键作用。