title: Cloning and expression of a chick liver glutathione S-transferase CL 3 subunit with the use of a baculovirus expression system.
abstract: Glutathione S-transferase CL 3 subunits purified from 1-day-old-chick livers were digested with Achromobacter proteinase I and the resulting fragments were isolated for amino acid sequence analysis. An oligonucleotide probe was constructed accordingly for cDNA library screening. A cDNA clone of 1342 bases, pGCL301, encoding a protein of 26209 Da was isolated and sequenced. Including conservative substitutions, this protein has 75-79% sequence similarity to other Alpha family glutathione S-transferases. The coding sequence of pGCL301 was inserted into a baculovirus vector for infection of Spodoptera frugiperda (SF9) cells. The expressed protein has a high relative activity with ethacrynic acid (47% of the specific activity with 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene). The enzyme has a subunit molecular mass of 25.2 +/- 1.2 kDa (by SDS/PAGE), a pI of 9.45 and an absorption coefficient A1%1cm of 13.0 +/- 0.5 at 280 nm.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Tam
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D007525:Isoelectric Focusing; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004247:DNA; D005982:Glutathione Transferase