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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 749-760Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02908.x
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- Medical Research Council [G0200320(62380), G0200320] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Catalytically active, recombinant fusion proteins of bacteriophage E endosialidase were expressed and purified from Escherichia coli. Constructs with different fusion partners added to the amino terminus of the endosialidase were enzymatically active. A post-translational proteolytic cleavage was shown to occur between serine 706 and aspartate 707 to generate the 76 kDa mature enzyme from the 90 kDa translation product. Endosialidase truncated at the C-terminus from aspartate 707 was observed to have the same 76 kDa molecular weight as wild-type enzyme using denaturing SDS-PAGE but, under native PAGE conditions, was not observed to form the approximate to250 kDa trimeric wild-type enzyme, implying that the C-terminus of the enzyme may be required for correct assembly of active trimer, rather than as part of the active site as has been previously suggested. Mutagenesis of aspartate 138 to alanine greatly reduced enzyme activity whereas conversion of other selected aspartate residues to alanine had less effect, consistent with similarities between the structure and catalytic mechanism of bacteriophage E endosialidase and those of exosialidases.
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