title: Isolation and characterization of the epoxide hydrolase-encoding gene from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.
abstract: The epoxide hydrolase (EH)-encoding gene (EPH1) from the basidiomycetous yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous was isolated. The genomic sequence has a 1,236-bp open reading frame which is interrupted by eight introns that encode a 411-amino-acid polypeptide with a calculated molecular mass of 46.2 kDa. The amino acid sequence is similar to that of microsomal EH and belongs to the alpha/beta hydrolase fold family. The EPH1 gene was not essential for growth of X. dendrorhous in rich medium under laboratory conditions. The Eph1-encoding cDNA was functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. A sixfold increase in specific activity was observed when we used resting cells rather than X. dendrorhous. The epoxides 1,2-epoxyhexane and 1-methylcyclohexene oxide were substrates for both native and recombinant Eph1. Isolation and characterization of the X. dendrorhous EH-encoding gene are essential steps in developing a yeast EH-based epoxide biotransformation system.
authors.affiliation: Division of Industrial Microbiology, Department of Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences, Wageningen Agricultural University, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands. hans.visser@imb.ftns.wau.nl
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: de Bont
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Verdoes
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008861:Microsomes / Q000201:enzymology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017510:Protein Folding; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases