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Overproduction in Escherichia coli and Characterization of a Soybean Ferric Leghemoglobin Reductase

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dc.creator Ji, Lin
dc.creator Becana Ausejo, Manuel
dc.creator Sarath, Gautam
dc.creator Shearman, L.
dc.creator Klucas, R. V.
dc.date 1994-09
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T02:13:53Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T02:13:53Z
dc.identifier Plant Physiology , Vol 106, Issue 1 203-209
dc.identifier 0032-0889
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5439
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/5439
dc.description Published as Journal Series No. 10626, Agricultural Research Division, University of Nebraska.
dc.description We previously cloned and sequenced a cDNA encoding soybean ferric leghemoglobin reductase (FLbR), an enzyme postulated to play an important role in maintaining leghemoglobin in a functional ferrous state in nitrogen-fixing root nodules. This cDNA was sub-cloned into an expression plasmid, pTrcHis C, and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant FLbR protein, which was purified by two steps of column chromatography, was catalytically active and fully functional. The recombinant FLbR cross-reacted with antisera raised against native FLbR purified from soybean root nodules. The recombinant FLbR, the native FLbR purified from soybean (Glycine max L.) root nodules, and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenases from pig heart and yeast had similar but not identical ultraviolet-visible absorption and fluorescence spectra, cofactor binding, and kinetic properties. FLbR shared common structural features in the active site and prosthetic group binding sites with other pyridine nucleotide-disulfide oxidoreductases such as dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenases, but displayed different microenvironments for the prosthetic groups.
dc.description This work was supported by grants from the US. Department of Agriculture (grant 93-0318) to R.V.K. and the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (PB92-0058) to M.B.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.language eng
dc.publisher American Society of Plant Biologists
dc.rights openAccess
dc.title Overproduction in Escherichia coli and Characterization of a Soybean Ferric Leghemoglobin Reductase
dc.type Artículo


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