Functional expression and characterization of the two cyclic amidohydrolase enzymes, allantoinase and a novel phenylhydantoinase, from Escherichia coli

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Kim, GJ
Lee, DE
Kim, HS
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[1] Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Biol Sci, Taejon 305701, South Korea
[2] Ajou Univ, Dept Mol Sci & Technol, Suwon 442749, South Korea
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10.1128/JB.182.24.7021-7028.2000
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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A superfamily of cyclic amidohydrolases, including dihydropyrimidinase, allantoinase, hydantoinase, and dihydroorotase, all of which are involved in the metabolism of purine and pyrimidine rings, was recently proposed based on the rigidly conserved structural domains in identical positions of the related enzymes. With these conserved domains, two putative cyclic amidohydrolase genes from Escherichia coli, flanked by related genes, were identified and characterized. From the genome sequence of E. coli, the allB gene and a putative open reading frame, tentatively designated as a hyuA (for hydantoin-utilizing enzyme) gene, were predicted to express hydrolases, In contrast to allB, high-level expression of hyuA in E. coli of a single protein was unsuccessful even under various induction conditions. We expressed HyuA as a maltose binding protein fusion protein and AllB in its native form and then purified each of them by conventional procedures. allB was found to encode a tetrameric allantoinase (453 amino acids) which specifically hydrolyzes the purine metabolite allantoin to allantoic acid. Another open reading frame, hyuA, located near 64.4 min on the physical map and known as a UUG start, coded for D-stereospecific phenylhydantoinase (465 amino acids) which is a homotetramer. As a novel enzyme belonging to a cyclic amidohydrolase superfamily, E. coli phenylhydantoinase exhibited a distinct activity toward the hydantoin derivative with an aromatic side chain at the 5' position but did not readily hydrolyze the simple cyclic ureides. The deduced amino acid sequence of the novel phenylhydantoinase shared a significant homology (>45%) with those of allantoinase and dihydropyrimidinase, but its functional role still remains to be elucidated. Despite the unclear physiological function of HyuA, its presence, along with the allantoin-utilizing AllB, strongly suggested that the cyclic ureides might be utilized as nutrient sources in E. coli.
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