title: Molecular cloning and expression of an amine sulfotransferase cDNA: a new gene family of cytosolic sulfotransferases in mammals.
abstract: A cDNA of amine sulfotransferase-RB1 (AST-RB1), which efficiently catalyzes 4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (PTHP) sulfation, has been isolated by immunoscreening of a rabbit liver cDNA library. The cDNA consisted of 1,117 base pairs and encoded a protein of 301 amino acids with a molecular weight of 35,876. The deduced amino acid sequence matched at six positions those of peptide fragments obtained from purified AST-RB1 protein. The sequence had less than 38% identity at the amino acid level with cytosolic sulfotransferases in mammals, although high degrees of similarity were observed with regions conserved throughout mammalian sulfotransferases. These results indicate that AST-RB1, arbitrarily named sulfotransferase 3A1 (ST3A1), constitutes a new and third gene family of cytosolic sulfotransferases in mammals. ST3A1 expressed in Escherichia coli as a fused protein catalyzed sulfation of amines such as PTHP, aniline, 4-chloroaniline, 2-naphthylamine, and desipramine, but barely O-sulfation of typical aryl and hydroxysteroid sulfotransferase substrates. These data unequivocally demonstrate the existence of a cytosolic sulfotransferase showing a high selectivity for amine substrates, and indicate that multiple forms of sulfotransferase mediate sulfation of xenobiotics in mammalian livers.
authors.affiliation: Division of Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshinari
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogino
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shiraga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamazoe
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011817:Rabbits; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015238:Sulfotransferases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015238:Sulfotransferases; C035817:amine sulfotransferase