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Comparative Study
. 1993 Jun;113(6):790-6.
doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a124120.

Prolyl endopeptidase from Aeromonas hydrophila: cloning, sequencing, and expression of the enzyme gene, and characterization of the expressed enzyme

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Comparative Study

Prolyl endopeptidase from Aeromonas hydrophila: cloning, sequencing, and expression of the enzyme gene, and characterization of the expressed enzyme

A Kanatani et al. J Biochem. 1993 Jun.
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Abstract

A strain of Aeromonas hydrophila was found to show prolyl endopeptidase activity. The enzyme gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli JM83. A 12 kbp EcoRI fragment containing the enzyme gene was subcloned at the HincII site of pUC19 to construct plasmid pAPEP-3 with a 3.5 kbp insert. E. coli JM83 transformed with this plasmid showed about 100-fold higher activity than the parent Aeromonas. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the insert revealed that the mature enzyme-encoding sequence starts just after the ATG initiation codon of the open reading frame. The enzyme was a single polypeptide composed of 689 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 76,383. It showed properties very similar to those of Flavobacterium prolyl endopeptidase, except that the isoelectric point was 5.5. The amino acid sequence was 56 and 41% homologous to those of Flavobacterium and porcine brain prolyl endopeptidases, respectively. From a survey of sequence homology with other members of the prolyl endopeptidase family, the amino acid residues involved in the catalytic triad were deduced to be Ser-537, His-656, and Asp-512 (or Asp-621).

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