title: Expression of mature bovine H-protein of the glycine cleavage system in Escherichia coli and in vitro lipoylation of the apoform.
abstract: H-protein, a component of the glycine cleavage system with lipoic acid as a prosthetic group, was expressed in Escherichia coli using a T7 RNA polymerase plasmid expression system. After induction with 25 microM isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside, bacteria harboring the recombinant plasmid expressed mature bovine H-protein as a soluble form at a level of about 10% of the total bacterial protein. Little of the H-protein was lipoylated in E. coli cultured without added lipoate, but when the cells were cultured in medium supplemented with 30 microM lipoate, about 10% of the recombinant protein expressed was the correctly lipoylated active form, 10% was an inactive aberrantly modified form, presumably with an octanoyl group, and the remaining 80% was the unlipoylated apoform. Each of the three forms was purified to homogeneity and shown to have the same NH2-terminal amino acid sequence as that of native bovine H-protein. The specific activity of the lipoylated form of H-protein expressed was consistent with that of H-protein purified from bovine liver. The purified recombinant apo-H-protein was lipoylated and consequently activated in vitro with lipoyl-AMP as a lipoyl donor by lipoyltransferase purified 150-fold from bovine liver mitochondria. The lipoylation was dependent on lipoyl-AMP, apo-H-protein, and lipoyltransferase. The partially purified lipoyltransferase had no lipoate-activating activity. These results provide the first evidence that in mammals two consecutive reactions are required for the attachment of lipoic acid to the acceptor protein: the activation of lipoic acid to lipoyl-AMP catalyzed by lipoate-activating enzyme and the transfer of the lipoyl group to an N epsilon-amino group of a lysine residue to apoprotein by lipoyl-AMP:N epsilon-lysine lipoyltransferase.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okamura-Ikeda
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Motokawa
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli; D050961:Glycine Decarboxylase Complex H-Protein; D050841:Glycine Dehydrogenase (Decarboxylating); D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008063:Thioctic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D014166:Transferases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D053482:beta 2-Glycoprotein I
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D050961:Glycine Decarboxylase Complex H-Protein; D006023:Glycoproteins; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D053482:beta 2-Glycoprotein I; C064525:glycine cleavage system; D008063:Thioctic Acid; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases; D050841:Glycine Dehydrogenase (Decarboxylating); D014166:Transferases; D000217:Acyltransferases; C077290:H-protein lipoyltransferase