title: Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of a dog thyroid cDNA encoding a novel inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase.
abstract: In brain and many other tissues, type I inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) 5-phosphatase is the major isoenzyme hydrolysing the calcium-mobilizing second messenger InsP3. This protein has been purified to apparent homogeneity from a crude soluble fraction of bovine brain, yielding a single major protein band with a molecular mass of 43 kDa after SDS/PAGE. This material was used to determine internal microsequences. A partial DNA sequence has been amplified by PCR by using degenerate primers deduced from two protein sequences (FKAKKYKKV and DENYKSQE). A cDNA clone (BVCT) was isolated by screening a dog thyroid cDNA library. The encoded protein of 412 amino acids has a calculated molecular mass of 47,681 Da. Peptide sequences generated from the bovine brain enzyme were found to be 96% conserved compared with the dog thyroid protein. When clone BVCT was expressed in Escherichia coli, the recombinant protein was shown to hydrolyse both InsP3 and inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate, with apparent Km values of 28 and 3 microM respectively. Enzyme activity was inhibited by EDTA and 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate, both inhibitors of native InsP3 5-phosphatase, but not by EGTA and LiCl, as previously shown for the bovine brain enzyme. Our data show the cloning of type I InsP3 5-phosphatase which, interestingly, does not share any significant sequence identity with the previously cloned type III isoenzyme.
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHN), Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Verjans
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Smedt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lecocq
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vanweyenberg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erneux
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology; D002417:Cattle; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004285:Dogs; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D000072181:Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatases; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; D000072181:Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatases