title: C-terminal tripeptide Ser-Asn-Leu (SNL) of human D-aspartate oxidase is a functional peroxisome-targeting signal.
abstract: The functionality of the C-terminus (Ser-Asn-Leu; SNL) of human d-aspartate oxidase, an enzyme proposed to have a role in the inactivation of synaptically released d-aspartate, as a peroxisome-targeting signal (PTS1) was investigated in vivo and in vitro. Bacterially expressed human d-aspartate oxidase was shown to interact with the human PTS1-binding protein, peroxin protein 5 (PEX5p). Binding was gradually abolished by carboxypeptidase treatment of the oxidase and competitively inhibited by a Ser-Lys-Leu (SKL)-containing peptide. After transfection of mouse fibroblasts with a plasmid encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) extended by PKSNL (the C-terminal pentapeptide of the oxidase), a punctate fluorescent pattern was evident. The modified GFP co-localized with peroxisomal thiolase as shown by indirect immunofluorescence. On transfection in fibroblasts lacking PEX5p receptor, GFP-PKSNL staining was cytosolic. Peroxisomal import of GFP extended by PGSNL (replacement of the positively charged fourth-last amino acid by glycine) seemed to be slower than that of GFP-PKSNL, whereas extension by PKSNG abolished the import of the modified GFP. Taken together, these results indicate that SNL, a tripeptide not fitting the PTS1 consensus currently defined in mammalian systems, acts as a functional PTS1 in mammalian systems, and that the consensus sequence, based on this work and that of other groups, has to be broadened to (S/A/C/K/N)-(K/R/H/Q/N/S)-L.
authors.affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Departement Moleculaire Celbiologie, Afdeling Farmakologie, Herestraat, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Amery
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brees
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baes
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Setoyama
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Mannaerts
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Van Veldhoven
mesh_terms: D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D050804:D-Aspartate Oxidase; D005347:Fibroblasts; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D006801:Humans; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008830:Microbodies / Q000378:metabolism*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000074435:Peroxisome-Targeting Signal 1 Receptor; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D008164:Luminescent Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D000074435:Peroxisome-Targeting Signal 1 Receptor; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases; D050804:D-Aspartate Oxidase; C494102:DDO protein, human