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Volume 270, Number 15, Issue of April 14, pp. 8660-8666, 1995
©1995 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Edith C. Wolff , Young Bok Lee , Soo Il Chung , J. E. Folk , Myung Hee Park

Deoxyhypusine synthase is the first enzyme involved in the post-translational formation of hypusine, a unique amino acid that occurs at one position in a single cellular protein, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A). This NAD-dependent enzyme catalyzes the formation of deoxyhypusine by transfer of the butylamine portion of spermidine to the -amino group of a specific lysine residue in the eIF-5A precursor. Its purification from rat testis was accomplished by ammonium sulfate fractionation and successive ion-exchange chromatographic steps, followed by chromatofocusing on a hydrophilic resin (Mono P). A pI of 4.7 was determined by isoelectric focusing. Amino acid sequences of five tryptic peptides of the pure enzyme did not correspond to any sequences in the protein data banks. The enzyme migrates as a single band on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with an apparent monomer molecular mass of 42,000 Da. Matrix-assisted laser desorption mass spectrometry gave a monomer mass of 40,800 Da. There is evidence, however, that the active enzyme exists as a tetramer of this subunit. Rabbit polyclonal antibodies to the 42-kDa protein precipitated deoxyhypusine synthase activity. The enzyme shows a strict specificity for NAD. Purified deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the overall synthesis of deoxyhypusine and, in the absence of the eIF-5A precursor, catalyzes the cleavage of spermidine.

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