PMID:11488932
| Citation |
Kawai, S, Mori, S, Mukai, T, Hashimoto, W and Murata, K (2001) Molecular characterization of Escherichia coli NAD kinase. Eur. J. Biochem. 268:4359-65 |
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| Abstract |
NAD kinase was purified to homogeneity from Escherichia coli MG1655. The enzyme was a hexamer consisting of 30 kDa subunits and utilized ATP or other nucleoside triphosphates as phosphoryl donors for the phosphorylation of NAD, most efficiently at pH 7.5 and 60 degrees C. The enzyme could not use inorganic polyphosphates as phosphoryl donors and was designated as ATP-NAD kinase. The N-terminal amino-acid sequence of the purified enzyme was encoded by yfjB, which had been deposited as a gene of unknown function in the E. coli whole genomic DNA sequence database. yfjB was cloned and expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3)pLysS. The purified product (YfjB) showed NAD kinase activity, and was identical to ATP-NAD kinase purified from E. coli MG1655 in molecular structure and other enzymatic properties. The deduced amino-acid sequence of YfjB exhibited homology with that of Mycobacterium tuberculosis inorganic polyphosphate/ATP-NAD kinase [Kawai, S., Mori, S., Mukai, T., Suzuki, S., Hashimoto, W., Takeshi, Y. & Murata, K. (2000) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 276, 57-63], and those of many hypothetical proteins for which functions have not yet been revealed. The YfjB homologues were considered to be NAD kinases and alignment of their sequences revealed highly conserved regions, XXX-XGGDG-XL and DGXXX-TPTGSTAY, where X represents a hydrophobic amino-acid residue. |
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| Keywords |
Adenosine Triphosphate/chemistry; Amino Acid Sequence; Cloning, Molecular; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Kinetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Molecular Weight; Mycobacterium/enzymology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/enzymology; NAD/pharmacology; NADP/pharmacology; Phosphorylation; Phosphotransferases/chemistry; Phosphotransferases/genetics; Phosphotransferases/metabolism; Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/chemistry; Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/genetics; Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/isolation & purification; Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/metabolism; Polyphosphates/chemistry; Sequence Analysis, Protein; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Temperature |
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