Biochemical characterization of recombinant subunits of type 2A protein phosphatase overexpressed in Pichia pastoris.
Methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris was used for a medium-scale expression of structural (PR65/A) and catalytic (PP2Ac) subunits of human type 2A protein phosphatase (PP2A). Constructs encoding these subunits, which were designed to introduce eight histidines at their N-termini, were introduced into the KM71 Pichia strain by homologous recombination. Recombinant proteins overproduced after methanol induction were purified from cell-free extracts by anion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose, and Ni2+/nitrilotriacetate/agarose. In addition, chromatography on omega-aminohexyl-Sepharose was applied to purify recombinant (r)PR65/A. This purification scheme yielded approximately 5 mg and 100 microg of rPR65/A and rPP2Ac, respectively, from 1 L of the yeast culture. The specific activity of rPP2Ac measured with [32P]phosphorylase a [1.7 micromol.min-1.(mg protein)-1] and its inhibition by okadaic acid (IC50 = 0.66 nM) were similar to PP2A isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle. As demonstrated by immunodetection with methylation state-specific antibodies, recombinant PP2Ac was carboxymethylated at the last C-terminal leucine residue. Recombinant PP2A subunits were able to form a complex as demonstrated both by activity assays in the presence of protamine and by chromatography on protamine-agarose. In summary, P. pastoris provides a convenient heterologous system for the production of recombinant subunits of PP2A.
Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG-MUG, Gdansk, Poland; Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Poland; Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Basel, Switzerland.
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D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017931:DNA Primers; D004926:Escherichia coli; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010843:Pichia / Q000201:enzymology*; D011817:Rabbits; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
D017931:DNA Primers; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases