title: Comparative studies of genes encoding thermostable L-2-halo acid dehalogenase from Pseudomonas sp. strain YL, other dehalogenases, and two related hypothetical proteins from Escherichia coli.
abstract: We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding thermostable L-2-halo acid dehalogenase (L-DEX) from the 2-chloroacrylate-utilizable bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain YL. The open reading frame consists of 696 nucleotides corresponding to 232 amino acid residues. The protein molecular weight was estimated to be 26,179, which was in good agreement with the subunit molecular weight of the enzyme. The gene was efficiently expressed in the recombinant Escherichia coli cells: the amount of L-DEX corresponds to about 49% of the total soluble proteins. The predicted amino acid sequence showed a high level of similarity to those of L-DEXs from other bacterial strains and haloacetate dehalogenase H-2 from Moraxella sp. strain B (38 to 57% identity) but a very low level of similarity to those of haloacetate dehalogenase H-1 from Moraxella sp. strain B (10%) and haloalkane dehalogenase from Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10 (12%). By searching the protein amino acid sequence database, we found two E. coli hypothetical proteins similar to the Pseudomonas sp. strain YL L-DEX (21 to 22%).
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbial Biochemistry, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nardi-Dei
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurihara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: J Q
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koshikawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Terashima
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Esaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Soda
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006867:Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D006867:Hydrolases; C034507:2-haloacid dehalogenase