Protein Engineering vol. 6 no. 1 pp. 123-127, 1993
© 1993 Oxford University Press
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Overproduction and purification of the regulatory subunit of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase
Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, USA
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An Escherichia coli strain/plasmid system has been developed for the overexpression of the regulatory subunit of E.coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase). Production of large quantities of regulatory subunit, by the method described here, should facilitate future experiments, such as X-ray crystallography, NMR and hybridization experiments, aimed at understanding the heterotropic mechanism that regulates the activity of ATCase. The plasmid used for the over-expression carries the gene for the regulatory subunit, pyrI, downstream from the strong pyrB promoter. The host strain, EK1104 [Nowlan, S.F. and Kantrowitz, E.R. (1985) J. Biol. Chem., 260, 14712–14716] carries a deletion in the pyrBI region of the chromosome, as well as a leaky pyrF allele. When this strain/plasmid system is grown under limiting pyrimidine levels, large quantities of the regulatory subunit of ATCase are produced without any trace of catalytic subunit or holo-enzyme. A procedure for the purification of the regulatory subunit from cell extracts has also been developed yielding {small tilde}50 mg of purified regulatory subunit per liter of initial culture. The regulatory subunit produced in this fashion is fully competent in reassociation experiments with the native catalytic subunit. Furthermore, the reassociated holoenzyme exhibits kinetic properties identical to those of the wild type enzyme. In addition, we report the construction of a pUC119 based plasmid which carries a unique NdeI site at the fMet of the pyrB gene of ATCase. This plasmid, which was used in the construction of the system for the overexpression of the regulatory subunit of ATCase, has been shown to be of general use for the expression of foreign proteins in E.coli.
Keywords: expression vector/overproduction/purification/pyrB promoter
Received August 28, 1992; revised October 20, 1992; accepted October 23, 1992.
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