Schenk, Gerhard and Guddat, L.W. and Ge, L. and Carrington, Lyle E. and Hume, D.A. and Hamilton, S.E. and de Jersey, J. (2000) Identification of mammalian-like purple acid phosphatases in a wide range of plants. Gene, 250. pp. 117-125. ISSN 0378-1119

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Abstract

Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) comprise a family of binuclear metal-containing hydrolases, members of which have been isolated from plants, mammals and fungi. Polypeptide chains differ in size (animal ~35 kDa, plant ~55 kDa) and exhibit low sequence homology between kingdoms but all residues involved in co-ordination of the metal ions are invariant. A search of genomic databases was undertaken using a sequence pattern which includes the conserved residues. Several novel potential PAP sequences were detected, including the first known examples from bacterial sources. Ten plant ESTs were also identified which, although possessing the conserved sequence pattern, were not homologous throughout their sequences to previously known plant PAPs. Based on these EST sequences, novel cDNAs from sweet potato, soybean, red kidney bean and Arabidopsis thaliana were cloned and sequenced. These sequences are more closely related to mammalian PAP than to previously characterized plant enzymes. Their predicted secondary structure is similar to that of the mammalian enzyme. A model of the sweet potato enzyme was generated based on the coordinates of pig PAP. These observations strongly suggest that the cloned cDNA sequences represent a second group of plant PAPs with properties more similar to the mammalian enzymes than to the high molecular weight plant enzymes.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Binuclear metal centre; Fenton-like reaction; Homology modelling; Phosphate acquisition; Phylogenetics;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Chemistry
Item ID:	3747
Depositing User:	Gary Schenk
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2012 10:08
Journal or Publication Title:	Gene
Publisher:	Elsevier
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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