TY - JOUR
T1 - Rat urate oxidase produced by recombinant baculovirus expression
T2 - Formation of peroxisome crystalloid core-like structures
AU - Alvares, Keith
AU - Widrow, Robert J.
AU - Abu-Jawdeh, Graziella M.
AU - Schmidt, Jennifer V.
AU - Yeldandi, Anjana V.
AU - Sambasiva Rao, M.
AU - Reddy, Janardan K.
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PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Urate oxidase (EC 1.7.3.3), which catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allantoin, is present in most mammals but absent in humans and hominoid primates. In rats and most other mammals that catabolize uric acid to allantoin, this enzyme is localized within the crystalloid cores of peroxisomes present in liver parenchymal cells. To determine whether urate oxidase forms these crystalloid cores or whether core-forming protein(s) exist in association with urate oxidase, a baculovirus expression vector system was used to overproduce the full-length rat urate oxidase in Spodoptera frugiperda cells. Urate oxidase was expressed to a level of ≈30% of the total protein in this system. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that the baculovirus-generated protein had electrophoretic and immunologic properties similar to those of urate oxidase expressed in rat liver. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopic examination revealed that the overexpressed recombinant urate oxidase is present in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus of infected insect cells as numerous 1-to 3-μm discrete particles. These insoluble protein aggregates, which were positively stained for urate oxidase by protein A-gold immunocytochemical approach, did not appear to be delimited by a single membrane. They revealed a crystalloid structure reminiscent of rat peroxisomal core consisting of bundles of tubules with an inner diameter of ≈50 Å. The recombinant urate oxidase particles, isolated by a single-step procedure, were composed entirely of 35-kDa urate oxidase subunit. These studies indicate that rat urate oxidase is capable of forming insoluble crystalloid core-like structures.
AB - Urate oxidase (EC 1.7.3.3), which catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allantoin, is present in most mammals but absent in humans and hominoid primates. In rats and most other mammals that catabolize uric acid to allantoin, this enzyme is localized within the crystalloid cores of peroxisomes present in liver parenchymal cells. To determine whether urate oxidase forms these crystalloid cores or whether core-forming protein(s) exist in association with urate oxidase, a baculovirus expression vector system was used to overproduce the full-length rat urate oxidase in Spodoptera frugiperda cells. Urate oxidase was expressed to a level of ≈30% of the total protein in this system. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that the baculovirus-generated protein had electrophoretic and immunologic properties similar to those of urate oxidase expressed in rat liver. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopic examination revealed that the overexpressed recombinant urate oxidase is present in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus of infected insect cells as numerous 1-to 3-μm discrete particles. These insoluble protein aggregates, which were positively stained for urate oxidase by protein A-gold immunocytochemical approach, did not appear to be delimited by a single membrane. They revealed a crystalloid structure reminiscent of rat peroxisomal core consisting of bundles of tubules with an inner diameter of ≈50 Å. The recombinant urate oxidase particles, isolated by a single-step procedure, were composed entirely of 35-kDa urate oxidase subunit. These studies indicate that rat urate oxidase is capable of forming insoluble crystalloid core-like structures.
KW - Immunocytochemistry
KW - Nuclear localization
KW - Peroxisome nucleoid
KW - Recombinant DNA
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.89.11.4908
DO - 10.1073/pnas.89.11.4908
M3 - Article
C2 - 1594592
AN - SCOPUS:0026635073
VL - 89
SP - 4908
EP - 4912
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 11
ER -