title: Polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases PhaC1 and PhaC2 from Pseudomonas stutzeri 1317 had different substrate specificities.
abstract: The whole polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis gene locus of Pseudomonas stutzeri strain 1317 containing PHA synthase genes phaC1Ps, phaC2Ps and PHA depolymerase gene phaZPs was cloned using a PCR cloning strategy. The sequence analysis results of the phaC1Ps, phaC2Ps and phaZPs showed high homology to the corresponding pha loci of the known Pseudomonas strains, respectively. PhaC1Ps and PhaC2Ps were functionally expressed in recombinant Escherichia coli strains and their substrate specificity was compared. The results demonstrated that PhaC1Ps and PhaC2Ps from P. stutzeri 1317 had different substrate specificities when expressed in E. coli. In details, PhaC2Ps could incorporate both short-chain-length 3-hydroxybutyrate and medium-chain-length 3-hydroxyalkanoates (mcl 3HA) into PHA, while PhaC1Ps only favored mcl 3HA for polymerization.
authors.affiliation: MOE Laboratory for Protein Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
authors.forename: Jing-Yu
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jin-Chun
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Guo-Qiang
authors.initials: GQ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D044223:Pseudomonas stutzeri / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D000217:Acyltransferases; C077225:poly(3-hydroxyalkanoic acid) synthase