J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 15, 7181-7185, May, 1988

Purification and reconstitution of Escherichia coli proline carrier using a site specifically cleavable fusion protein

K Hanada, I Yamato and Y Anraku
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.

We previously constructed a bifunctionally active membrane-bound fusion protein, in which Escherichia coli proline carrier (the product of the putP gene) was linked with beta-galactosidase (the product of the lacZ gene) through a collagen linker (Hanada, K., Yamato, I., and Anraku, Y. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 14100-14104). The proline carrier was purified from this site specifically cleavable fusion protein. Cytoplasmic membranes overproducing the fusion protein were solubilized with dodecylmaltoside, and the solubilized fraction was subjected to anti-beta-galactosidase IgG-Sepharose chromatography. The fusion protein was specifically adsorbed to the immunoaffinity resin and then treated with collagenase for splitting the proline carrier moiety of the fusion protein from the beta-galactosidase moiety. The collagenase used for the collagenolysis was then removed by anti-collagenase IgG- Sepharose chromatography. In this way, the proline carrier was purified to more than 95% homogeneity of the protein. Proline transport in proteoliposomes reconstituted with the purified carrier was dependent on the membrane potential and the chemical gradient of Na+ across the membrane with apparent Michaelis constants for proline and for Na+ stimulation of 3.6 microM and 31 microM, respectively. These results indicated that the proline carrier mediates electrogenic Na+/proline symport.
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