ABSTRACTUronate dehydrogenase has been cloned fromPseudomonas syringaepv. tomato strain DC3000,Pseudomonas putidaKT2440, andAgrobacterium tumefaciensstrain C58. The genes were identified by using a novel complementation assay employing anEscherichia colimutant incapable of consuming glucuronate as the sole carbon source but capable of growth on glucarate. A shotgun library ofP. syringaewas screened in the mutantE. coliby growing transformed cells on minimal medium containing glucuronic acid. Colonies that survived were evaluated for uronate dehydrogenase, which is capable of converting glucuronic acid to glucaric acid. In this manner, a 0.8-kb open reading frame was identified and subsequently verified to beudh. Homologous enzymes inP. putidaandA. tumefacienswere identified based on a similarity search of the sequenced genomes. Recombinant proteins from each of the three organisms expressed inE. coliwere purified and characterized. For all three enzymes, the turnover number (kcat) with glucuronate as a substrate was higher than that with galacturonate; however, the Michaelis constant (Km) for galacturonate was lower than that for glucuronate. TheA. tumefaciensenzyme was found to have the highest rate constant (kcat= 1.9 × 102s−1on glucuronate), which was more than twofold higher than those of both of the pseudomonad enzymes.
摘要 克隆了番茄假单胞菌(Pseudomonas syringaepv. tomato)菌株 DC3000、普特假单胞菌(Pseudomonas putidaKT2440)和农杆菌(Agrobacterium tumefaciens)菌株 C58 中的丙酮酸脱氢酶。这些基因是通过一种新的互补试验鉴定的,该试验采用了一种不能消耗葡萄糖醛酸作为唯一碳源但能在葡萄糖醛酸上生长的大肠埃希氏菌突变体。通过在含有葡萄糖醛酸的最小培养基上培养转化细胞,在突变体大肠埃希氏菌中筛选出了丁香球菌的射枪文库。对存活下来的菌落进行了尿酸脱氢酶评估,尿酸脱氢酶能够将葡萄糖醛酸转化为葡萄糖酸。通过这种方法,确定了一个 0.8 kb 的开放阅读框,并随后对其进行了验证。根据对已测序基因组的相似性检索,确定了普氏菌和肿瘤细胞中的同源酶。在大肠杆菌中表达的来自这三种生物的重组蛋白得到了纯化和鉴定。这三种酶以葡萄糖醛酸为底物时的转化率(kcat)均高于半乳糖醛酸;但半乳糖醛酸的迈克尔常数(Km)低于葡萄糖醛酸。发现A. tumefaci酶的速率常数最高(kcat= 1.9 × 102s-1),比两种假单胞菌酶的速率常数高出两倍多。