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Título: | Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a homogentisate dioxygenase from Aspergillus nidulans and identification of its human and plant homologues |
Autor: | Fernández-Cañón, José Manuel; Peñalva, Miguel Ángel CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 8-sep-1995 | Editor: | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Citación: | J Biol Chem 270(36):21199-205 (1995) | Resumen: | We report here the first characterization of a gene encoding a homogentisate dioxygenase, the Aspergillus nidulans hmgA gene. The HmgA protein catalyzes an essential step in phenylalanine catabolism, and disruption of the gene results in accumulation of homogentisate in broths containing phenylalanine. hmgA putatively encodes a 448-residue polypeptide (Mr = 50,168) containing 21 histidine and 23 tyrosine residues. This polypeptide has been expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion to glutathione S-transferase, and the affinity-purified protein has homogentisate dioxygenase activity. A. nidulans, an ascomycete amenable to classical and reverse genetic analysis, is a good metabolic model to study inborn errors in human Phe catabolism. One such disease, alkaptonuria, was the first human inborn error recognized (Garrod, A. E. (1902) Lancet 2, 1616-1620) and results from loss of homogentisate dioxygenase. Here we take advantage of the high degree of conservation between the amino acid sequences of the fungal and higher eukaryote enzymes of this pathway to identify expressed sequence tags encoding human and plant homologues of HmgA. This is a significant advance in characterizing the genetic defect(s) of alkaptonuria and illustrates the usefulness of our fungal model. | Descripción: | 8 p.-7 fig. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.270.36.21199 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/170408 | DOI: | 10.1074/jbc.270.36.21199 | ISSN: | 0021-9258 | E-ISSN: | 1083-351X |
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