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Expression of selenocysteine-containing glutathione S-transferase in Escherichia coli.

Abstract：

:Evolution of a probable 'glutathione-binding ancestor' resulting in a common thioredoxin-fold for glutathione S-transferases and glutathione peroxidases may possibly suggest that a glutathione S-transferase could be engineered into a selenium-containing glutathione S-transferase (seleno-GST), having glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity. Here, we addressed this question by production of such protein. In order to obtain a recombinant seleno-GST produced in Escherichia coli, we introduced a variant bacterial-type selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) element which afforded substitution with selenocysteine for the catalytic Tyr residue in the active site of GST from Schistosoma japonica. Utilizing coexpression with the bacterial selA, selB, and selC genes (encoding selenocysteine synthase, SelB, and tRNA(Sec), respectively) the yield of recombinant seleno-GST was about 2.9 mg/L bacterial culture, concomitant with formation of approximately 85% truncation product as a result of termination of translation at the selenocysteine-encoding UGA codon. The mutations inferred as a result of the introduction of a SECIS element did not affect the glutathione-binding capacity (Km = 53 microM for glutathione as compared to 63 microM for the wild-type enzyme) nor the GST activity (kcat = 14.3 s(-1) vs. 16.6 s(-1)), provided that the catalytic Tyr residue was intact. When this residue was changed to selenocysteine, however, the resulting seleno-GST lost the GST activity. It also failed to display any novel GPX activity towards three standard peroxide substrates (hydrogen peroxide, butyl hydroperoxide or cumene hydroperoxide). These results show that recombinant selenoproteins with internal selenocysteine residues may be heterologously produced in E. coli at sufficient amounts for purification. We also conclude that introduction of a selenocysteine residue into the catalytic site of a glutathione S-transferase is not sufficient to induce GPX activity in spite of a maintained glutathione-binding capacity.

journal_name

Biochem Biophys Res Commun

journal_title

Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors

Jiang Z,Arnér ES,Mu Y,Johansson L,Shi J,Zhao S,Liu S,Wang R,Zhang T,Yan G,Liu J,Shen J,Luo G

doi

10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.06.110

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-08-13 00:00:00

pages

94-101

issue

eissn

0006-291X

issn

1090-2104

pii

S0006-291X(04)01366-X

journal_volume

321

pub_type

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Expression of selenocysteine-containing glutathione S-transferase in Escherichia coli.