title: Expression and purification of the dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase subunits of the Escherichia coli pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex: a mass spectrometric assay for reductive acetylation of dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase.
abstract: Plasmids were constructed for overexpression of the Escherichia coli dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (1-lip E2, with a single hybrid lipoyl domain per subunit) and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3). A purification protocol is presented that yields homogeneous recombinant 1-lip E2 and E3 proteins. The hybrid lipoyl domain was also expressed independently. Masses of 45,953+/-73Da (1-lip E2), 50,528+/-5.5Da (apo-E3), 51,266+/-48Da (E3 including FAD), and 8982+/-4.0 (lipoyl domain) were determined by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The purified 1-lip E2 and E3 proteins were functionally active according to the overall PDHc activity measurement. The lipoyl domain was fully acetylated after just 30 s of incubation with E1 and pyruvate. The mass of the acetylated lipoyl domain is 9019+/-2Da according to MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Treatment of the 1-lip E2 subunit with trypsin resulted in the appearance of the lipoyl domain with a mass of 10,112+/-3Da. When preincubated with E1 and pyruvate, this tryptic fragment was acetylated according to the mass increase. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry was thus demonstrated to be a fast and precise method for studying the reductive acetylation of the recombinant 1-lip E2 subunit by E1 and pyruvate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Program in Cellular and Molecular Biodynamics, Rutgers, The State University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nemeria
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jordan
mesh_terms: D000107:Acetylation; D000123:Acetyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D008058:Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D051047:Dihydrolipoyllysine-Residue Acetyltransferase; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D021122:Protein Subunits / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D021122:Protein Subunits; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex; D008058:Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase; D000123:Acetyltransferases; D051047:Dihydrolipoyllysine-Residue Acetyltransferase