Research Article

Cloning and Determination of Kinetic Activity of Thermophilic GCH-I from Anoxybacillus flavithermus DSM 2641T

Volume: 7 Number: 2 June 30, 2022
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Cloning and Determination of Kinetic Activity of Thermophilic GCH-I from Anoxybacillus flavithermus DSM 2641T

Abstract

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a disease caused by phenylalanine hydroxylase enzyme deficiency in newborn infants and is the most important cause of treatable mental retardation. One of the causes of the disease comes from the defects of the PTPS in the metabolic pathway of phenilalanine metabolisms. Treatment of the disease is not feasible, and life-time tetrahydrobiopterin loading is performed in chronic patients. Today, tetrahydrobiopterin is chemically synthesized. Biological production is a different point of view due to the long duration of chemical synthesis, costs, and exposure to chemical pollutants. For this reason, the gch-I gene from the thermophilic A. flavithermus DSM 2641T was identified by PCR method. We cloned the gchI gene that was 603 bp and its open reading frame has 200 amino acids. The gene was cloned into pET28a(+) expression vector with 6xHis tags and transform in E. coli BL21(DE3)pLys host cells to express with 1 mM IPTG induction. After purification with Ni-NTA resin, we determined that GCH-I is 24 kDa, its optimum pH is 8.0 and temperature is 65C.Under optimal conditions, GCH-I exhibited enzymatic activity with Km- and Vmax- values of 243 ± 23,25 μM and 100,93 ± 3,5 nM/min/mg protein, respectively.

Keywords

A. flavithermus DSM 2641T , BH4 , GCHI , PKU , Thermophilic bacterium

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APA
Beriş, F. Ş., Hızal, Ö., & Karaoğlu, H. (2022). Cloning and Determination of Kinetic Activity of Thermophilic GCH-I from Anoxybacillus flavithermus DSM 2641T. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences, 7(2), 178-183. https://doi.org/10.35229/jaes.1068313