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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2003, p. 5263-5268, Vol. 185, No. 17
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5263-5268.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cloning and Expression of the Gene for a Novel Protein from Mycobacterium smegmatis with Functional Similarity to Eukaryotic Calmodulin

Prasad T. Reddy,^1* C. Rama Prasad,² P. Hemalatha Reddy,³ Dennis Reeder,¹ Keith McKenney,¹ Howard Jaffe,⁴ Mariana N. Dimitrova,⁵ Ann Ginsburg,⁵ Alan Peterkofsky,⁶ and P. Suryanarayana Murthy²

Bioprocess Engineering Group, Biotechnology Division, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899,¹ LNC-NINDS Protein/Peptide Sequencing Facility, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,⁴ Laboratory of Biochemistry,⁵ Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892,⁶ Department of Biochemistry, University College of Medical Sciences and G.T.B. Hospital, Shahdara, Delhi-110095,² Department of Biochemistry, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110021, India³

Received 15 January 2003/ Accepted 18 May 2003

A calmodulin-like protein (CAMLP) from Mycobacterium smegmatis was purified to homogeneity and partially sequenced; these data were used to produce a full-length clone, whose DNA sequence contained a 55-amino-acid open reading frame. M. smegmatis CAMLP, expressed in Escherichia coli, exhibited properties characteristic of eukaryotic calmodulin: calcium-dependent stimulation of eukaryotic phosphodiesterase, which was inhibited by the calmodulin antagonist trifluoperazine, and reaction with anti-bovine brain calmodulin antibodies. Consistent with the presence of nine acidic amino acids (16%) in M. smegmatis CAMLP, there is one putative calcium-binding domain in this CAMLP, compared to four such domains for eukaryotic calmodulin, reflecting the smaller molecular size (approximately 6 kDa) of M. smegmatis CAMLP. Ultracentrifugation and mass spectral studies excluded the possibility that calcium promotes oligomerization of purified M. smegmatis CAMLP.

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* Corresponding author: Bioprocess Engineering Group, Biotechnology Division, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Phone: (301) 975-4871. Fax: (301) 975-5449. E-mail: prasad.reddy{at}nist.gov.

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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2003, p. 5263-5268, Vol. 185, No. 17
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5263-5268.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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