Isolation and cloning of a protein-serine/threonine phosphatase from an archaeon.
AUTOR(ES)
Leng, J
RESUMO
A divalent metal ion-stimulated protein-serine/threonine phosphatase, PP1-arch, was purified approximately 1,000-fold from the extreme acidothermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus (ATCC 35091). Purified preparations contained 40 to 70% of total protein as PP1-arch, as determined by assay-ing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels for protein phosphatase activity. The first 25 amino acids of the protein's sequence were identified, as well as an internal sequence spanning some 20 amino acids. Using this information, we cloned the gene for PP1-arch via the application of PCR and conventional cloning techniques. The gene for PP1-arch predicted a protein of 293 amino acids that bore striking resemblance to the members of the major family of protein-serine/threonine phosphatases from members of the domain Eucarya, the PP1/2A/2B superfamily. The core of the protein, spanning residues 4 to 275, possessed 29 to 31% identity with these eucaryal protein phosphatases. Of the 42 residues found to be absolutely conserved among the known eucaryal members of the PP1/2A/2B superfamily, 33 were present in PP1-arch. If highly conservative substitutions are included, this total reached 37. The great degree of sequence conservation between molecules from two distinct phylogenetic domains implies that the members of this enzyme superfamily had evolved as specialized, dedicated protein phosphatases prior to the divergence of members of the Archaea and Eucarya from one another.
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