NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase gene organization correlates with structural domains of the protein.
NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase gene organization correlates with structural domains of the protein.
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NADPH-细胞色素 P-450 氧化还原酶基因组织与蛋白质的结构域相关。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00494a009
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发表时间:
1990
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Kasper,CB
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作者:
Porter,TD;Beck,TW;Kasper,CB
Todd D. Porter, § Thomas W. Beck, 11 and Charles B. Kasper* McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Received February 12, 1990; Revised Manuscript Received June 20, 1990 abstract: cDNA clones to ratliver NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase were used to isolate genomic clones from a Wistar-Furth inbred rat genomic DNA library. Fifteen exons containing the coding region and 3'-nontranslated segment of the P-450 reductase gene were identified, spanning 20 kilobases of DNA contained in 3 X-Charon 35 clones. The organization of this single copy gene reveals a general correspondence between exons and structural domains of the protein, with the segment responsible for anchoring the reductase to the microsomal membrane and several segments involved in FMN, FAD, and NADPH binding encoded by discrete exons.^ jADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase is a 78 225-dalton flavoprotein associated with the endoplasmic reticulum of most eukaryotic cells (Williams & Kamin, 1962; Phillips & Langdon, 1962). The protein is responsible for electron transfer from NADPH to the cytochromes P-450 (Lu et al., 1969) and is unusual in that it contains 1 mol each of FAD and FMN (Iyanagi & Mason, 1973). We previously reported the amino acid sequence of rat liver P-450 reductase as de-termined from overlapping cloned cDNAs (Porter & Kasper, 1985) and have reported a structural characterization of the enzyme based on a computer-assisted comparison of the amino acid sequence to several other flavoproteins of defined structure (Porter & Kasper, 1986). Residues 77-228 are homologous with the bacterial flavodoxins, indicating that this portion of the reductase is likely to bind FMN; studies utilizing site-directed mutagenesis of several residues in this region have provided strong support for this hypothesis (Shen et al., 1989). Several segments in the carboxy-terminal regionshow con-siderable similarity to two FAD-containing proteins, ferre-doxin-NADP+ reductase and NADH-cytochrome b5 reduc-tase, suggesting that this portion of the reductase binds FAD. Comparison of these proteins to glutathione reductase, a flavoprotein whose three-dimensional structure is known, has allowed tentative identification of FAD-and cofactor-binding segments in these proteins. The similarity between P-450 reductase and these FAD-binding proteins, coupled with the homology of the amino-terminal domain with the bacterial flavodoxins, suggests that thereductase arose through a fusion of the ancestral genes for these two sets of flavoproteins. To further evaluate this hypothesis, we have cloned and charac-terized the rat P-450 reductase gene. Analysis of the exon organization reveals a general correspondence between exons and proposed functional or structural domains, and supports the postulatethat P-450reductase evolved from a fusion of two different flavoprotein genes. Experimental Procedures Construction and Screening of the Genomic DNA Library. Nuclei were isolated from male Wistar-Furth rat liver fThis work was supported by Grants CA-22484, CA-09020, and CA-09135 from the National Institutes of Health.* The nucleic acidsequence in this paper has been submitted to Gen-Bank under Accession Number J05291. 8 Present address: Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 11 Present address: National Cancer Institute, Laboratory for Viral Carcinogenesis, Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Frederick, MD 21701.