APHO1 from the yeast Arxula adeninivorans encodes an acid phosphatase of broad substrate specificity |
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Authors: | Parvinder Kaur Anja Lingner Bijinder Singh Erik Böer Jelena Polajeva Gerhard Steinborn Rüdiger Bode Gerd Gellissen Tulasi Satyanarayana Gotthard Kunze |
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Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110 021, India. |
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Abstract: | The extracellular acid phosphatase-encoding Arxula adeninivorans APHO1 gene was isolated using degenerated specific oligonucleotide primers in a PCR screening approach. The gene harbours an ORF of 1449 bp encoding a protein of 483 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 52.4 kDa. The sequence includes an N-terminal secretion sequence of 17 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence exhibits 54% identity to phytases from Aspergillus awamori, Asp. niger and Asp. ficuum and a more distant relationship to phytases of the yeasts Candida albicans and Debaryomyces hansenii (36–39% identity). The sequence contains the phosphohistidine signature and the conserved active site sequence of acid phosphatases. APHO1 expression is induced under conditions of phosphate limitation. Enzyme isolates from wild and recombinant strains with the APHO1 gene expressed under control of the strong A. adeninivorans-derived TEF1 promoter were characterized. For both proteins, a molecular mass of approx. 350 kDa, corresponding to a hexameric structure, a pH optimum of pH 4.8 and a temperature optimum of 60°C were determined. The preferred substrates include p-nitrophenyl-phosphate, pyridoxal-5-phosphate, 3-indoxyl-phosphate, 1-naphthylphosphate, ADP, glucose-6-phosphate, sodium-pyrophosphate, and phytic acid. Thus the enzyme is a secretory acid phosphatase with phytase activity and not a phytase as suggested by strong homology to such enzymes. |
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Keywords: | Arxula adeninivorans APHO1 Secretory acid phosphatase Phytase Yeast |
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