Highly purified recombinant varicella Zoster virus thymidine kinase is a homodimer

Copyright 2000 Academic Press..

Recombinant varicella zoster virus (VZV) thymidine kinase (TK) was isolated in a fast and gentle two-step procedure from Escherichia coli. The TK was expressed as a PreScission-cleavable fusion protein and purified by glutathione and ATP affinity chromatography, yielding homogeneous, highly pure VZV TK. The purified enzyme displays enzymatic activities with K(m) values of 0.3 +/- 0.06 microM for the natural substrate thymidine and 11.6 +/- 3.2 microM for ATP, indicating the biochemical equivalence with the viral VZV TK expressed in infected cells. Determinations of the native molecular weight by size exclusion chromatography and native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the pure enzyme is biologically active as a homodimer.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2000

Erschienen:

2000

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Protein expression and purification - 18(2000), 3 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 338-45

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Amrhein, I [VerfasserIn]
Wurth, C [VerfasserIn]
Bohner, T [VerfasserIn]
Hofbauer, R [VerfasserIn]
Folkers, G [VerfasserIn]
Scapozza, L [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

EC 2.7.1.21
Journal Article
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Thymidine Kinase

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.06.2000

Date Revised 15.11.2006

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM106611763