Abstract:
:Geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase supplies the essential acyclic precursor for Taxol biosynthesis in methyl jasmonate-induced Taxus canadensis suspension cell cultures. A cDNA encoding this prenyltransferase was cloned from an induced T. canadensis cell library. The recombinant enzyme expressed in yeast was confirmed by radiochromatographic analysis to produce geranylgeranyl diphosphate from farnesyl diphosphate and [4-14C]isopentenyl diphosphate and was subjected to preliminary kinetic characterization. The deduced amino acid sequence of this gymnosperm geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (393 residues) resembles those of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases of angiosperm origin, except for the 90-100 N-terminal residues that correspond to the plastidial transit peptide. The full-length preprotein (42.6 kDa) and two truncated versions, corresponding to putative "mature proteins" from which the transit peptide was deleted, were transformed into a yeast mutant defective for the beta-subunit of type II geranylgeranyl transferase. Under conditions of regulated expression, both the full-length construct and the longest of the truncations (at Phe 99) were able to complement the mutant. However, when these two constructs were overexpressed in a wild-type yeast strain, they were apparently toxic, most probably due to depletion of endogenous farnesyl diphosphate as the cosubstrate for the geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase reaction. In vitro activity of the corresponding recombinant enzymes paralleled the expression level of the constructs as determined by SDS-PAGE analysis of the appropriate proteins of predicted size, and was correlated with toxicity in the wild-type yeast strain and with ability to complement the mutant strain. Results from the analysis of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase activity levels and measurement of the corresponding steady-state mRNA levels during the time course of Taxol production in induced T. canadensis suspension cell cultures, and comparison to similar data for activity and message levels for taxadiene synthase, the committed step of the pathway, indicated that for each enzyme both the level of corresponding message and catalytic activity rapidly increased after methyl jasmonate induction.
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Arch Biochem Biophysjournal_title
Archives of biochemistry and biophysicsauthors
Hefner J,Ketchum RE,Croteau Rdoi
10.1006/abbi.1998.0926subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-12-01 00:00:00pages
62-74issue
1eissn
0003-9861issn
1096-0384pii
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360pub_type
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