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. 1997 Sep;179(18):5677–5683. doi: 10.1128/jb.179.18.5677-5683.1997

Purification and cloning of a proline 3-hydroxylase, a novel enzyme which hydroxylates free L-proline to cis-3-hydroxy-L-proline.

H Mori 1, T Shibasaki 1, K Yano 1, A Ozaki 1
PMCID: PMC179453  PMID: 9294421

Abstract

Proline 3-hydroxylase was purified from Streptomyces sp. strain TH1, and its structural gene was cloned. The purified enzyme hydroxylated free L-proline to cis-3-hydroxy-L-proline and showed properties of a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase (H. Mori, T. Shibasaki, Y. Uosaki, K. Ochiai, and A. Ozaki, Appl. Environ. Microbiol, 62:1903-1907, 1996). The molecular mass of the purified enzyme was 35 kDa as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The isoelectric point of the enzyme was 4.3. The optimal pH and temperature were 7.0 and 35 degrees C, respectively. The K(m) values were 0.56 and 0.11 mM for L-proline and 2-oxoglutarate, respectively. The Kcat value of hydroxylation was 3.2 s-1. Determined N-terminal and internal amino acid sequences of the purified protein were not found in the SwissProt protein database. A DNA fragment of 74 bp was amplified by PCR with degenerate primers based on the determined N-terminal amino acid sequence. With this fragment as a template, a digoxigenin-labeled N-terminal probe was synthesized by PCR. A 6.5-kbp chromosome fragment was cloned by colony hybridization with the labeled probe. The determined DNA sequence of the cloned fragment revealed a 870-bp open reading frame (ORF 3), encoding a protein of 290 amino acids with a calculated molecular weight of 33,158. No sequence homolog was found in EMBL, GenBank, and DDBJ databases. ORF 3 was expressed in Escherichia coli DH1. Recombinants showed hydroxylating activity five times higher than that of the original bacterium, Streptomyces sp. strain TH1. It was concluded that the ORF 3 encodes functional proline 3-hydroxylase.

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