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Partial purification and characterization of a non-cyanobacterial cyanophycin synthetase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus strain ADP1 with regard to substrate specificity, substrate affinity and binding to cyanophycin

Martin Krehenbrink

Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 3, D-48149 Münster, Germany

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Alexander Steinbüchel
steinbu{at}uni-muenster.de

This study reports, for the first time, purification and biochemical characterization of a cyanophycin synthetase from a non-cyanobacterial strain. Cyanophycin synthetase of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus strain ADP1 was purified 69-fold from recombinant Escherichia coli by two chromatographic steps and one novel affinity step utilizing the Mg²⁺-dependent binding of the enzyme to cyanophycin. Unlike cyanobacterial cyanophycin synthetases characterized so far, the purified enzyme from A. calcoaceticus strain ADP1 did not accept lysine as an alternative substrate to arginine. The apparent K_m-values for arginine (47 µM) and aspartic acid (240 µM) were similar to those of known cyanophycin synthetases from cyanobacteria, but this enzyme had a slightly higher affinity for aspartic acid. In addition, the two different ATP-binding sites of the enzyme were characterized independently of each other with respect to K_m values for ATP. The ATP-binding site responsible for the addition of arginine was found to have a much higher affinity for ATP (38 µM) than that responsible for the addition of aspartate (210 mM). Furthermore, the binding of the enzyme to the two possible forms of cyanophycin granule polypeptide (CGP), CGP-Asp and CGP-Arg, was studied. While both forms bound around 30–40 % of the enzyme activity present under the assay conditions, binding was Mg²⁺-dependent in the case of CGP-Asp. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed that both forms of cyanophycin were equally abundant in cyanophycin-accumulating cells of A. calcoaceticus ADP1.

Present address: Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.

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