Characterization of a fungal maleylacetoacetate isomerase gene and identification of its human homologue.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
J M Fernández-Cañón, M A Peñalva

Abstract

We have previously used Aspergillus nidulans as a fungal model for human phenylalanine catabolism. This model was crucial for our characterization of the human gene involved in alcaptonuria. We use here an identical approach to characterize at the cDNA level the human gene for maleylacetoacetate isomerase (MAAI, EC 5.2.1.2), the only as yet unidentified structural gene of the phenylalanine catabolic pathway. We report here the first characterization of a gene encoding a MAAI enzyme from any organism, the A. nidulans maiA gene. maiA disruption prevents growth on phenylalanine (Phe) and phenylacetate and results in the absence of MAAI activity in vitro and Phe toxicity. The MaiA protein shows strong amino acid sequence identity to glutathione S-transferases and has MAAI activity when expressed in Escherichia coli. maiA is clustered with fahA and hmgA, the genes encoding the two other enzymes of the common part of the Phe/phenylacetate pathways. Based on the high amino acid sequence conservation existing between other homologous A. nidulans and human enzymes of this pathway, we used the MaiA sequence in data base searches to identify human expressed sequence tags encoding its putative homologues. Four such cDNAs were sequenced and...Continue Reading

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