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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 408, Issue -, Pages 149-159Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20070677
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cDNA cloning; enzyme kinetics; protein overexpression; site-directed mutagenesis; structural modelling; thiamine phosphate diphosphorylase
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A thiamine biosynthesis gene, thi3, from maize Zea mays has been identified through cloning and sequencing of cDNA and heterologous overexpression of the encoded protein, THI3, in Escherichia coli. The recombinant THI3 protein was purified to homogeneity and shown to possess two essentially different enzymatic activities of HMP(-P) [4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (phosphate)] kinase and TMP (thiamine monophosphate) synthase. Both activities were characterized in terms of basic kinetic constants, with interesting findings that TMP synthase is uncompetitively inhibited by excess of one of the substrates [HMP-PP (HMP diphosphate)] and ATP. A bioinformatic analysis of the THI3 sequence suggested that these activities were located in two distinct, N-terminal kinase and C-terminal synthase, domains. Models of the overall folds of THI3 domains and the arrangements of active centre residues were obtained with the SWISS-MODEL protein modelling server, on the basis of the known three-dimensional structures of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium HMP(-P) kinase and Bacillus subtilis TMP synthase. The essential roles of Gln(98) and Met(134) residues for HMP kinase activity and of Ser(444) for TMP synthase activity were experimentally confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis.
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