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    J Biol Chem. 1990 Nov 5;265(31):19249-56.

    Expression and site-directed mutagenesis of the catalytic domain of human poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase in Escherichia coli. Lysine 893 is critical for activity.

    Simonin F, Ménissier-de Murcia J, Poch O, Muller S, Gradwohl G, Molinete M, Penning C, Keith G, de Murcia G.

    Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et cellulaire du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoires de Biochimie, Strasbourg, France.

    Bacterially expressed fusion proteins containing the COOH-terminal domain of the human poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase were analyzed by means of a novel assay, the "activity blot," which allows the detection of transferred polypeptides involved in poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis. Deletion analysis demonstrated that the 40-kDa COOH-terminal region of the enzyme is an autonomous catalytic domain exhibiting both the polymerizing and branching activities in the absence of DNA. Site-directed mutagenesis demonstrated that lysine 893 is essential for these catalytic processes. In addition, sequence similarities obtained with the NAD(P)+ amino acid dehydrogenases suggest that (i) lysine 893 may interact with the substrates of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase and (ii) the COOH-terminal part of the 40-kDa fragment may also contain a Rossman fold structure.

    PMID: 2121735 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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