title: Bacillus subtilis alkaline phosphatases III and IV. Cloning, sequencing, and comparisons of deduced amino acid sequence with Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase three-dimensional structure.
abstract: Bacillus subtilis has an alkaline phosphatase multigene family. Two members of this gene family, phoAIII and phoAIV, were cloned, taking advantage of in vitro constructed strains containing a plasmid insertion within one or the other of the structural genes. The DNA sequences of the two genes showed approximately 64% identity at the DNA level and 63% identity in the deduced primary amino acid sequences. The phoAIII and phoAIV genes code for predicted proteins of 47,149 and 45,935 Da, respectively. Comparison of the deduced primary amino acid sequence of the mature proteins with other sequenced alkaline phosphatases from Escherichia coli, yeast, and humans shows 25-30% identity. Based on the refined crystal structure of E. coli alkaline phosphatase, it appears that the active site and the core of the structure are retained in both Bacillus alkaline phosphatases. However, both proteins are truncated at the amino terminus compared with other mature alkaline phosphatases, three sizable surface loops of E. coli are deleted, and a minidomain is replaced with a larger domain in the model. Neither Bacillus alkaline phosphatase sequenced contains any cysteine residues, an amino acid implicated in intrachain disulfide bond formation in other alkaline phosphatases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Hulett
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bookstein
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Kapp
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Wyckoff
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000201:enzymology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010957:Plasmids; D011487:Protein Conformation; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase