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Volume 271, Number 45, Issue of November 8, 1996 pp. 28521-28532
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

A Mouse Amidase Specific for N-terminal Asparagine
THE GENE, THE ENZYME, AND THEIR FUNCTION IN THE N-END RULE PATHWAY

(Received for publication, July 9, 1996)

Sergei Grigoryev Dagger , Albert E. Stewart , Yong Tae Kwon Dagger , Stuart M. Arfin , Ralph A. Bradshaw , Nancy A. Jenkins ** , Neal G. Copeland ** and Alexander Varshavsky Dagger

From the Dagger  Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, the  Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California 92717, and the ** ABL Basic Research Program, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland 21702

The N-end rule relates the in vivo half-life of a protein to the identity of its N-terminal residue. In both fungi and mammals, the tertiary destabilizing N-terminal residues asparagine and glutamine function through their conversion, by enzymatic deamidation, into the secondary destabilizing residues aspartate and glutamate, whose destabilizing activity requires their enzymatic conjugation to arginine, one of the primary destabilizing residues. We report the isolation and analysis of a mouse cDNA and the corresponding gene (termed Ntan1) that encode a 310-residue amidohydrolase (termed NtN-amidase) specific for N-terminal asparagine. The ~17-kilobase pair Ntan1 gene is located in the proximal region of mouse chromosome 16 and contains 10 exons ranging from 54 to 177 base pairs in length. The ~1.4-kilobase pair Ntan1 mRNA is expressed in all of the tested mouse tissues and cell lines and is down-regulated upon the conversion of myoblasts into myotubes. The Ntan1 promoter is located ~500 base pairs upstream of the Ntan1 start codon. The deduced amino acid sequence of mouse NtN-amidase is 88% identical to the sequence of its porcine counterpart, but bears no significant similarity to the sequence of the NTA1-encoded N-terminal amidohydrolase of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which can deamidate either N-terminal asparagine or glutamine. The expression of mouse NtN-amidase in S. cerevisiae nta1Delta was used to verify that NtN-amidase retains its asparagine selectivity in vivo and can implement the asparagine-specific subset of the N-end rule. Further dissection of mouse Ntan1, including its null phenotype analysis, should illuminate the functions of the N-end rule, most of which are still unknown.


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