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Yasushi Yonezawa1, Ken-ichi Izutsu, Hiroko Tokunaga
1Applied and Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Abstract:
Light scattering and chemical cross-linking analyses of nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK) from moderate halophile, Halomonas sp. 593 (HaNDK), unambiguously demonstrated that this enzyme formed a dimeric structure, in contrast to the Pseudomonas NDK (PaNDK), a nonhalophilic counterpart, and other NDKs from Gram-negative bacteria, which all formed a tetrameric structure. Comparison of HaNDK and PaNDK showed that the HaNDK was less thermally stable than the PaNDK: the optimum temperature of PaNDK enzyme activity was 20 degrees C higher than that of HaNDK. However, the HaNDK readily refolded and reassembled back to the active dimeric structure, upon heat denaturation at 0.2 M NaCl, as soon as the temperature was lowered. On the contrary, the thermally more stable PaNDK was irreversibly denatured at its melting temperature.
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