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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-8-6
pubmed:abstractText
The formate dehydrogenase (FDHF) of Escherichia coli is a selenocysteine-containing protein that occurs as a component of the formate-hydrogen lyase complex. The gene encoding this 80 kd polypeptide contains a TGA codon in the open reading frame. Several indirect lines of evidence showed earlier that the selenocysteine residue in the protein is inserted co-translationally in a TGA (UGA) dependent process. Direct proof that the selenocysteine is present in the polypeptide in the position corresponding to TGA as predicted from the gene sequence was obtained by automated amino acid sequence analysis of a 75Se-containing peptide isolated from the protein. Construction of a fusion gene comprising a small segment of the fdhF gene linked to the lacZ gene as reporter greatly facilitated isolation of the selenocysteine-containing protein. Subsequent cleavage of this isolated gene product with endoproteinase Asp-N gave rise to an easily purified small selenocysteine-containing peptide that was amenable to amino acid sequence analysis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Amino Acids, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Codon, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cysteine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Endopeptidases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Formate Dehydrogenases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Metalloendopeptidases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Selenium, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Selenocysteine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta-Galactosidase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/endoproteinase Asp-N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0951-6433
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Amino acid sequence analysis of Escherichia coli formate dehydrogenase (FDHH) confirms that TGA in the gene encodes selenocysteine in the gene product.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article