title: A prokaryotic-type cytidine deaminase from Arabidopsis thaliana gene expression and functional characterization.
abstract: The gene and cDNA of an Arabidopsis thaliana cytidine deaminase (CDA) were cloned and sequenced. The gene, At-cda1, is located on chromosome 2 and is expressed in all plant tissues tested, although with quantitative differences. Expression analysis suggest that At-cda1 probably codes for the housekeeping cytidine deaminase of Arabidopsis. The gene was functionally expressed in Escherichia coli and the protein, At-CDA1, shows similar enzymatic and substrate specificities as conventional cytidine deaminases: it deaminates cytidine and deoxycytidine and is competitively inhibited by cytosine-containing compounds. Because the protein shows no affinity to RNA, it is not likely to be involved in RNA-editing by C-to-U deamination. When compared to cytidine deaminases from other organisms, it becomes clear that At-CDA1 is related, both in sequence and structure, to the CDA of E. coli and other gram-negative bacteria. The eubacterial nature of the Arabidopsis CDA suggests that it is an additional example of a plant gene of endosymbiotic origin.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Strasbourg, Frnace.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Faivre-Nitschke
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Grienenberger
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gualberto
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D001419:Bacteria / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003062:Codon; D003564:Cytidine Deaminase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004926:Escherichia coli; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D015698:Genomic Library; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013728:Terminator Regions, Genetic
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D003564:Cytidine Deaminase