Use of Sulfolobus solfataricus PCNA subunit proteins to direct the assembly of multimeric enzyme complexes

Methods Mol Biol. 2013:978:149-63. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-293-3_11.

Abstract

In nature, enzymes often form multienzyme complexes to enhance their catalytic efficiencies and, -moreover, evolve into genetically fused multidomain enzymes. Inspired by a natural fusion cytochrome P450 (P450) containing a monooxygenase domain and a reductase domain, we have developed a heterotrimeric protein-utilized method to form a multienzyme complex composed of a bacterial P450 and its catalytically essential two redox proteins. Three distinct proliferating cell nuclear antigens (PCNAs) from Sulfolobus solfataricus, each of which can be separately expressed, spontaneously form a heterotrimer. Fusion to the PCNAs enables complex formation of a bacterial P450 and two redox proteins through the self-assembling of the PCNAs and enhances the activity due to efficient electron transfer in the complex. This PCNA-mediated multienzyme complex formation will be available for other multienzyme reactions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / chemistry
  • Multienzyme Complexes / chemistry*
  • Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / chemistry*
  • Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / genetics
  • Protein Subunits / chemistry*
  • Sulfolobus solfataricus / metabolism*

Substances

  • Multienzyme Complexes
  • Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen
  • Protein Subunits
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System