Bacterial expression of human kynurenine 3-monooxygenase: Solubility, activity, purification()

Kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO) is an enzyme central to the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism. KMO has been implicated as a therapeutic target in several disease states, including Huntington’s disease. Recombinant human KMO protein production is challenging due to the presence of transmem...

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Autores principales: Wilson, K., Mole, D.J., Binnie, M., Homer, N.Z.M., Zheng, X., Yard, B.A., Iredale, J.P., Auer, M., Webster, S.P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academic Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24316190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2013.11.015
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Sumario:Kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO) is an enzyme central to the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism. KMO has been implicated as a therapeutic target in several disease states, including Huntington’s disease. Recombinant human KMO protein production is challenging due to the presence of transmembrane domains, which localise KMO to the outer mitochondrial membrane and render KMO insoluble in many in vitro expression systems. Efficient bacterial expression of human KMO would accelerate drug development of KMO inhibitors but until now this has not been achieved. Here we report the first successful bacterial (Escherichia coli) expression of active FLAG™-tagged human KMO enzyme expressed in the soluble fraction and progress towards its purification.

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