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Recombinant expression, purification, and characterization of three isoenzymes of aspartate aminotransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana

Wilkie, Susan E., Warren, Martin J. (1998) Recombinant expression, purification, and characterization of three isoenzymes of aspartate aminotransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Protein Expression and Purification, 12 (3). pp. 381-9. ISSN 1046-5928. (doi:10.1006/prep.1997.0845) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:11079)

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Abstract

Five different genes encoding isoenzymes of aspartate aminotransferase (AAT) have been identified in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. cDNA sequences encoding three of these AAT isoenzymes, asp1 (mitochondrial), asp2 (cytosolic), and asp5 (plastid), were manipulated into bacterial expression vectors and the recombinant proteins expressed were purified from liquid culture using conventional methods. Yields of the purified isoenzymes varied from 11.5 mg/g wet wt cells (AAT5) to 0.95 mg/g wet wt cells (AAT2), an improvement of more than 1000-fold over typical yields of native isoenzymes obtained from plant tissues of other species. Analysis of the recombinant proteins on denaturing PAGE gels indicated subunit Mrs of between 44 and 45 K. Kinetic parameters (Km and kcat) obtained for all four substrates (aspartate, alpha-ketoglutarate, glutamate, and oxaloacetate) were consistent with values obtained for native AAT isoenzymes from other plant species. Further characterization of the purified recombinant enzymes alongside native enzymes from A. thaliana leaf tissue on AAT activity gels confirmed the identity of asp1 and asp2 as the mitochondrial and cytosolic AAT genes but indicated that asp5 may encode an amyloplastic rather than the chloroplastic enzyme.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1006/prep.1997.0845
Uncontrolled keywords: Amino Acid Sequence Arabidopsis/*enzymology/genetics Aspartate Aminotransferases/chemistry/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism Base Sequence DNA Primers/chemistry Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel Escherichia coli/enzymology/genetics Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/*genetics Isoenzymes/chemistry/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism Kinetics Molecular Sequence Data Plant Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism Polymerase Chain Reaction Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism Sequence Alignment
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Depositing User: Martin Warren
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2009 08:39 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:49 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/11079 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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