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Journal of Bacteriology, February 1999, p. 1256-1263, Vol. 181, No. 4
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Purification, Characterization, and Cloning of a Eubacterial 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase, a Key Enzyme Involved in Biosynthesis of Terpenoids

Shunji Takahashi, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, and Haruo Seto*

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan

Received 24 July 1998/Accepted 10 December 1998

The eubacterial 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase (EC 1.1.1.34) was purified 3,000-fold from Streptomyces sp. strain CL190 to apparent homogeneity with an overall yield of 2.1%. The purification procedure consisted of (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, heat treatment and anion exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and affinity chromatographies. The molecular mass of the enzyme was estimated to be 41 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and 100 to 105 kDa by gel filtration chromatography, suggesting that the enzyme is most likely to be a dimer. The enzyme showed a pH optimum of around 7.2, with apparent Km values of 62 µM for NADPH and 7.7 µM for HMG-CoA. A gene from CL190 responsible for HMG-CoA reductase was cloned by the colony hybridization method with an oligonucleotide probe synthesized on the basis of the N-terminal sequence of the purified enzyme. The amino acid sequence of the CL190 HMG-CoA reductase revealed several limited motifs which were highly conserved and common to the eucaryotic and archaebacterial enzymes. These sequence conservations suggest a strong evolutionary pressure to maintain amino acid residues at specific positions, indicating that the conserved motifs might play important roles in the structural conformation and/or catalytic properties of the enzyme.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan. Phone: 81-3-5684-2617. Fax: 81-3-3816-0453. E-mail: c00402{at}simail.ne.jp.

Journal of Bacteriology, February 1999, p. 1256-1263, Vol. 181, No. 4
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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