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  • Title: Maize recombinant non-C4 NADP-malic enzyme: a novel dimeric malic enzyme with high specific activity.
    Author: Saigo M, Bologna FP, Maurino VG, Detarsio E, Andreo CS, Drincovich MF.
    Journal: Plant Mol Biol; 2004 May; 55(1):97-107. PubMed ID: 15604667.
    Abstract:
    Among the different isoforms of NADP-malic enzyme (NADP-ME) involved in a wide range of metabolic pathways in plants, the NADP-ME that participates in C(4)-photosynthesis is the most studied. In the present work, the expression in E. coli of a cDNA encoding for a maize non-photosynthetic NADP-ME is presented. The recombinant NADP-ME thus obtained presents kinetic and structural properties different from the enzyme previously purified from etiolated leaves and roots. Moreover, the recombinant non-photosynthetic NADP-ME presents very high intrinsic NADP-ME activity, which is unexpected for a non-C( 4) NADP-ME. Using antibodies against this recombinant enzyme, an immunoreactive band of 66 kDa is detected in different maize tissues indicating that the 66 kDa-NADP-ME is in fact a protein expressed in vivo. The recombinant NADP-ME assembles as a dimer, although the results obtained indicate that a higher molecular mass oligomeric state of the enzyme is found in maize roots in vivo. In this way, maize presents at least three NADP-ME isoforms: a 72 kDa constitutive form (previously characterized); the novel non-photosynthetic 66 kDa isoform characterized in this work (which is the product of the ZmChlMe2 gene and the likely precursor to the evolution of the photosynthetic C(4) NADP-ME) and the 62 kDa isoform (implicated in C(4) photosynthesis). The contribution of the present work anticipates further studies concerning the equilibrium between the oligomeric states of the NADP-ME isoforms and the evolution towards the C(4) isoenzyme in maize.
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