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Volume 271, Number 50, Issue of December 13, 1996 pp. 32293-32300
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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The Amino Acid Sequence of Rat Kidney 5-Oxo-L-Prolinase Determined by cDNA Cloning

(Received for publication, August 7, 1996, and in revised form, September 24, 1996)

From the Department of Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021

5-Oxoprolinase (EC 3.5.2) catalyzes a reaction in which the endergonic cleavage of 5-oxo-L-proline to form L-glutamate is coupled to the exergonic hydrolysis of ATP to ADP and inorganic phosphate. Highly purified preparations of the enzyme have been obtained from rat kidney and Pseudomonas putida. The rat kidney enzyme is composed of two strongly interacting, apparently identical subunits (M_r = 142,000), whereas that from P. putida is composed of two functionally different protein components that can readily be dissociated. Here we report the cloning of rat kidney 5-oxoprolinase with preliminary expression studies. cDNA clones encoding the enzyme were isolated by screening a gt11 cDNA library beginning with a degenerate oligonucleotide probe based on peptide sequence data obtained from the purified enzyme. The whole cDNA clone was completed by amplifying its 5 end from a premade library of rat kidney Marathon-Ready^TM cDNAs using polymerase chain reaction methodology. The composite cDNA (4,016 bases) revealed an uninterrupted open reading frame encoding 1,288 amino acid residues (M_r = 137,759). The deduced amino acid sequence contains all four of the peptide sequences that were independently found in peptide fragments derived from the enzyme. Expression of the full-length clone in Escherichia coli yielded a product of the same size as the rat kidney enzyme and which reacted with antibodies directed against the rat kidney enzyme. The predicted amino acid sequence is almost 50% identical throughout its entire length to that of a hypothetical yeast protein YKL215C. It is also 26% identical in half its length to the bacterial hydantoinase HyuA and 26% identical in the other half to the bacterial hydantoinase HyuB. The results suggest unexpected evolutionary relationships among the hydantoinases and rat kidney 5-oxoprolinase which share the common property of hydrolyzing the imide bond of 5-membered rings but which do not all require ATP.

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