title: Amino acid sequence similarity between spinach chloroplast and mammalian gluconeogenic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase.
abstract: Chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is an essential enzyme in the photosynthetic pathway of carbon dioxide fixation into sugars and the properties of this enzyme are clearly distinct from cytosolic gluconeogenic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. Light-dependent activation via a ferredoxin/thioredoxin system and insensitivity to inhibition by AMP are unique characteristics of the chloroplast enzyme. In the present study, purified spinach chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase was reduced, S-carboxymethylated with iodoacetic acid, and cleaved with either cyanogen bromide or trypsin. The resulting peptides were purified by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography. Automated Edman degradation of some of the purified peptides showed amino acid sequences highly homologous to residues 72-86, 180-199, and 277-319 of pig kidney fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. These findings suggest a common evolutionary origin for mammalian gluconeogenic and chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, enzymes catalyzing the same reaction but having different functions and modes of regulation.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000201:enzymology*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology; D006597:Fructose-Bisphosphatase / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005943:Gluconeogenesis; D007668:Kidney / Q000201:enzymology*; D010944:Plants / Q000201:enzymology; D013045:Species Specificity; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D006597:Fructose-Bisphosphatase