title: Copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase and its gene from Candida albicans.
abstract: Cytosolic copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase was purified 136-fold with an overall yield of 2.5% to apparent electrophoretic homogeneity from the dimorphic pathogenic fungus, Candida albicans. The molecular mass of the native enzyme was 39.4 kDa and the enzyme was composed of two identical subunits with a molecular mass of 19.6 kDa. The enzyme was stable in the range of pH 4.0-9.0 and up to 55 degrees C. The ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum of the enzyme showed the absorption band of copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase at 660 nm. The atomic absorption analysis revealed that the enzyme contained 0.87 g-atom of copper and 0.79 g-atom of zinc per mole of subunit. The N-terminal amino acid sequence alignments up to the 40th residue showed that copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase from C. albicans has high similarity to other eukaryotic copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutases. The sod1 encoding copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase has been cloned using a polymerase chain reaction fragment as a probe. Sequence analysis of the sod1 predicted a copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase that contains 154 amino acids with a molecular mass of 16143 Da and displayed 79%, 69%, and 57% sequence identity to the homologues of Neurospora crassa, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and bovine, respectively. The cloned sod1 contained an intron of 245 nucleotides, which was verified by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, and Research Center for Molecular Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rhie
authors.forename: S T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y R
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Huh
authors.forename: Y U
authors.initials: YU
authors.lastname: Baek
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Kang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003300:Copper / Q000032:analysis; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000072105:Superoxide Dismutase-1; D013696:Temperature; D015032:Zinc / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D003300:Copper; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D000072105:Superoxide Dismutase-1; D015032:Zinc