Expression, purification, and characterization of thymidylate synthase from Lactococcus lactis
Greene, Patricia J. ; Yu, Pak-Lam ; Zhao, Jia ; Schiffer, Celia A. ; Santi, Daniel V.
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Binding Sites
Crystallization
Escherichia coli
*Gene Expression
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Lactococcus lactis
Models, Molecular
Molecular Sequence Data
Molecular Structure
Osmolar Concentration
Recombinant Proteins
Structure-Activity Relationship
Thymidylate Synthase
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health
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Abstract
The thymidylate synthase (TS) gene from Lactococcus lactis has been highly expressed in Escherichia coli. The TS protein was purified by sequential chromatography on Q-Sepharose and phenyl-Sepharose. Six grams of cell pellet yielded 140 mg of homogeneous TS. TS is a highly conserved enzyme, and several of the conserved amino acid residues that have been implicated in catalytic function are altered in L. lactis TS. By use of a 3-dimensional homology model, we have predicted covariant changes that might compensate for these differences. With the large amounts of L. lactis TS now available, studies can be pursued to understand the structure-function relationships of this enzyme compared to other TSs and to confirm the presumed roles of the compensatory changes predicted in the homology model.
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Protein Sci. 1994 Jul;3(7):1114-6. Link to article on publisher's site