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Heterotetrameric forms of human phenylalanine hydroxylase: Co-expression of wild-type and mutant forms in a bicistronic system

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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2011.02.001

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Phenylketonuria; Human phenylalanine hydroxylase; Interallelic complementation; Bicistronic system; Hybrid protein; Heteroallelic protein

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  1. Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal [SFRH/BD/19024/2004]
  2. University of Bergen, Norway
  3. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/19024/2004] Funding Source: FCT

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Hybrid forms of human phenylalanine hydroxylase (hPAH) mutants have been found to present catalytic activities lower than predicted from the individual recombinant forms, indicating that interallelic complementation could be a major determinant of the metabolic phenotype of compound heterozygous phenylketonuric (PKU) patients. To provide a molecular explanation for interallelic complementation we have here developed a bicistronic expression system and a purification strategy to obtain isolated hPAH heteromeric forms. On co-expression of WT-hPAH (similar to 50% tetramer; similar to 10% dimer) and the N- and C-terminally truncated form Delta N102/Delta C24-hPAH (similar to 80% dimer) no heterodimers were recovered. Moreover, by co-expression of WT-hPAH and the N-terminally truncated form Delta N102-hPAH (similar to 95% tetramer), heterotetramers, as a result of an assembly of two different homodimers, were isolated. The recovered (WT)/(Delta N102)-hPAH heterotetramers revealed a catalytic activity deviating significantly from that calculated by averaging the respective recombinant homotetrameric forms. The heterotetramer assembly also results in conformational changes in the WT-hPAH protomer, as detected by trypsin limited proteolysis. The finding that the presence of two homodimers with different kinetic parameters influences the properties of the resulting heterotetrameric protein indicates that the dimers exhibit interactions which are transmitted across the assembled tetramer. The bicistronic expression system developed here allowed the isolation of hybrid forms that exhibit negative interallelic complementation, and may represent a model system for studying the molecular pathogenic mechanisms of PAH gene mutations in compound heterozygous PKU patients, providing the rationale to understand the observed inconsistencies both in genotype/phenotype correlations and in the response to BH4 supplementation. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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