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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-5-10
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
This report describes the cloning and sequencing of a novel protease gene derived from Streptomyces griseus. Also described is the heterologous expression of the gene in Bacillus subtilis and characterization of the gene product. The sprD gene encodes a prepro mature protease of 392 amino acids tentatively named S. griseus protease D (SGPD). A significant component of the enzyme preregion was found to be homologous with the mitochondrial import signal of hsp60. The sprD gene was subcloned into an Escherichia coli/B. subtilis shuttle vector system such that the pro mature portion of SGPD was fused in frame with the promoter, ribosome binding site, and signal sequences of subtilisin. The gene fusion was subsequently expressed in B. subtilis DB104, and active protease was purified. SGPD has a high degree of sequence homology to previously described S. griseus proteases A, B, C, and E and the alpha-lytic protease of Lysobacter enzymogenes, but unlike all previously characterized members of the chymotrypsin superfamily, the recombinant SGPD forms a stable alpha 2 dimer. The amino acid sequence of the protein in the region of the specificity pocket is similar to that of S. griseus proteases A, B, and C. The purified enzyme was found to have a primary specificity for large aliphatic or aromatic amino acids. Nucleotide sequence data were used to construct a phylogenetic tree using a method of maximum parsimony which reflects the relationships and potentially the lineage of the chymotrypsin-like proteases of S. griseus.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
270
pubmed:geneSymbol
sprD
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7594-600
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Bacillus subtilis, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Genes, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Macromolecular Substances, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Ribosomes, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Streptomyces griseus, pubmed-meshheading:7706307-Substrate Specificity
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Protease evolution in Streptomyces griseus. Discovery of a novel dimeric enzymes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't