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PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION
卷 82, 期 2, 页码 345-351出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2012.01.021
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L-Proline; Schizophrenia; Amino acid oxidase; Amino acid metabolism; Neurotransmitter
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- Fondo di Ateneo per la Ricerca (University of Insubria)
The human PRODH gene has been shown to have unique roles in regulating cell survival and apoptotic pathways and it has been related to velocardiofacial syndrome/DiGeorge syndrome and increased susceptibility to schizophrenia. It encodes for the flavoprotein proline oxidase (PO), which catalyzes the conversion of L-proline to Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate. Despite the important physiological and medical interest in human PO, up to now only microbial homologues of PO have been expressed as recombinant protein and fully characterized. By using a bioinformatics analysis aimed at identifying the catalytic domain and the regions with a high intrinsic propensity to structural disorder, we designed deletion variants of human PO that were successfully expressed in Escherichia coli as soluble proteins in fairly high amounts (up to 10 mg/L of fermentation broth). The His-tagged PO-barreIN protein was isolated as an active (the specific activity is 0.032 U/mg protein), dimeric holoenzyme showing the typical spectral properties of FAD-containing flavoprotein oxidases. These results pave the way for elucidating structure-function relationships of this human flavoenzyme and clarifying the effect of the reported polymorphisms associated with disease states. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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