The purified recombinant precursor of rat mitochondrial dimethylglycine dehydrogenase binds FAD via an autocatalytic reaction
The purified recombinant precursor of rat mitochondrial dimethylglycine dehydrogenase binds FAD via an autocatalytic reaction
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2008.03.001
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发表时间:
2008-06-01
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8.2
通讯作者:
Barile, Maria
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作者:
Brizio, Carmen;Brandsch, Roderich;Barile, Maria
The precursor of the rat mitochondrial flavoenzyme dimethylglycine dehydrogenase (Me(2)GlyDH) has been produced in Escherichia coli as a C-terminally 6-His-tagged fusion protein, purified by one-step affinity chromatography and identified by ESI-MS/MS. It was correctly processed into its mature form upon incubation with solubilized rat liver mitoplasts. The purified precursor was mainly in its apo-form as demonstrated by immunological and fluorimetric detection of covalently bound flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). Results described here definitively demonstrate that: (i) covalent attachment of FAD to Me(2)GlyDH apoenzyme can proceed in vitro autocatalytically, without third reactants; (ii) the removal of mitochondrial presequence by mitochondrial processing peptidase is not required for covalent autoflavinylation. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.