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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 270, Issue 21, Pages 4227-4242Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03802.x
Keywords
apoprotein; deflavination; FAD; flavin; flavoenzyme; flavoprotein; FMN; (metal) affinity chromatography; reconstitution
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Flavoproteins are ubiquitous redox proteins that are involved in many biological processes. In the majority of flavoproteins, the flavin cofactor is tightly but noncovalently bound. Reversible dissociation of flavoproteins into apoprotein and flavin prosthetic group yields valuable insights in flavoprotein folding, function and mechanism. Replacement of the natural cofactor with artificial flavins has proved to be especially useful for the determination of the solvent accessibility, polarity, reaction stereochemistry and dynamic behaviour of flavoprotein active sites. In this review we summarize the advances made in the field of flavoprotein deflavination and reconstitution. Several sophisticated chromatographic procedures to either deflavinate or reconstitute the flavoprotein on a large scale are discussed. In a subset of flavoproteins, the flavin cofactor is covalently attached to the polypeptide chain. Studies from riboflavinde deficient expression systems and site-directed mutagenesis suggest that the flavinylation reaction is a post-translational, rather than a cotranslational, process. These genetic approaches have also provided insight into the mechanism of covalent flavinylation and the rationale for this atypical protein modi. cation.
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