PMID: 2501505May 1, 1989Paper

Molecular evolution of enzyme structure: construction of a hybrid hamster/Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase

Journal of Molecular Evolution
J G MajorJ R Wild

Abstract

Aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase, EC 2.1.3.2) is the first unique enzyme common to de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis and is involved in a variety of structural patterns in different organisms. In Escherichia coli, ATCase is a functionally independent, oligomeric enzyme; in hamster, it is part of a trifunctional protein complex, designated CAD, that includes the preceding and subsequent enzymes of the biosynthetic pathway (carbamoyl phosphate synthetase and dihydroorotase). The complete complementary DNA (cDNA) nucleotide sequence of the ATCase-encoding portion of the hamster CAD gene is reported here. A comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of the hamster and E. coli catalytic peptides revealed an overall 44% amino acid similarity, substantial conservation of predicted secondary structure, and complete conservation of all the amino acids implicated in the active site of the E. coli enzyme. These observations led to the construction of a functional hybrid ATCase formed by intragenic fusion based on the known tertiary structure of the bacterial enzyme. In this fusion, the amino terminal half (the "polar domain") of the fusion protein was provided by a hamster ATCase cDNA subclone, and the carboxyl terminal portion (the ...Continue Reading

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