Purification of Recombinant Flavanone 3β-Hydroxylase from Petunia hybrida and Assignment of the Primary Site of Proteolytic Degradation

Flavanone 3β-hydroxylase catalyzes the FeII/oxoglutarate-dependent hydroxylation of (2S)-flavanones to (2R,3R)-dihydroflavonols in the course of flavonol/anthocyanin or catechin biosynthesis. The enzyme from Petunia hybrida consists of a 41,655-Da polypeptide that is prone to rapid proteolysis in cr...

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Published in:Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 2000-03, Vol.375 (2), p.364-370
Main Authors: Lukačin, Richard, Gröning, Inga, Schiltz, Emile, Britsch, Lothar, Matern, Ulrich
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Language:English
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2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase
flavanoids
flavanone 3β-hydroxylase
flavonoid biosynthesis
oxygenases
Petunia hybrida
proteolysis
proteolytic degradation
purification of recombinant dioxygenase
recombinant proteins
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Summary:Flavanone 3β-hydroxylase catalyzes the FeII/oxoglutarate-dependent hydroxylation of (2S)-flavanones to (2R,3R)-dihydroflavonols in the course of flavonol/anthocyanin or catechin biosynthesis. The enzyme from Petunia hybrida consists of a 41,655-Da polypeptide that is prone to rapid proteolysis in crude plant extracts as well as on expression in Escherichia coli, and commercial protease inhibitors were inefficient in stopping the degradation. To pinpoint the primary site of proteolysis and to improve the activity yields, two revised schemes of purification were developed for the recombinant polypeptides. Applying a four-step protocol based on extraction and ion-exchange chromatography at pH 7.5, the primary, catalytically inactive proteolytic enzyme fragment (1.1 mg) was isolated and shown to cross-react on Western blotting as one homogeneous band of about 38 kDa. Mass spectrometric analysis assigned a mass of 37,820 ± 100 Da to this fragment, and partial sequencing revealed an unblocked amino terminus identical to that of the native 3β-hydroxylase. Thus, the native enzyme had been degraded by proteolysis of a small carboxy-terminal portion, and the primary site of cleavage must be assigned most likely to the Glu 337–Leu 338 bond, accounting for a loss of about 3800 Da. Alternatively, the enzyme degradation was greatly reduced when the extraction of recombinant bacteria was carried out with phosphate buffer at pH 5.5 followed by size exlusion and anion-exchange chromatography. This rapid, two-step purification resulted in a homogeneous 3β-hydroxylase of high specific acitivity (about 32 mkat/kg) at roughly 5% yield, and the procedure is a major breakthrough in mechanistic investigations of this class of labile dioxygenases.
ISSN:0003-9861
1096-0384
DOI:10.1006/abbi.1999.1676