title: Peroxisomal multifunctional enzyme of beta-oxidation metabolizing D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA esters in rat liver: molecular cloning, expression and characterization.
abstract: In the present study we have cloned and characterized a novel rat peroxisomal multifunctional enzyme (MFE) named perMFE-II. The purified 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase 2 with an M(r) of 31500 from rat liver [Malila, Siivari, Mäkelä, Jalonen, Latipää, Kunau and Hiltunen (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 21578-21585] was subjected to tryptic fragmentation and the resulting peptides were isolated and sequenced. Surprisingly, the full-length cDNA, amplified by PCR, had an open reading frame of 2205 bp encoding a polypeptide with a predicted M(r) of 79,331 and contained a potential peroxisomal targeting signal in the C-terminus (Ala-Lys-Leu). The sequenced peptide fragments of hydratase 2 gave a full match in the middle portion of the cDNA-derived amino acid sequence. The predicted amino acid sequence showed a high degree of similarity with pig 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type IV and MFE of yeast peroxisomal beta-oxidation. Recombinant perMFE-II (produced in Pichia pastoris) had 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase 2 and D-specific 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activities and was catalytically active with several straight-chain trans-2-enoyl-CoA, 2-methyltetradecenoyl-CoA and pristenoyl-CoA esters. The results showed that in addition to an earlier described multifunctional isomerase-hydratase-dehydrogenase enzyme from rat liver peroxisomes (perMFE-I), another MFE exists in rat liver peroxisomes. They both catalyse sequential hydratase and dehydrogenase reactions of beta-oxidation but through reciprocal stereochemical courses.
authors.affiliation: Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Poutanen
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Helander
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Kvist
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Siivari
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schmitz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Conzelmann
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hellman
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Hiltunen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry; D004746:Enoyl-CoA Hydratase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D008099:Liver / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008830:Microbodies / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004746:Enoyl-CoA Hydratase; C083735:long-chain-enoyl-CoA hydratase