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    Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1995 Apr 26;209(3):1140-8.

    Cloning and expression of a catalytic core bovine brain 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase.

    Ventura F, Ambrosio S, Bartrons R, el-Maghrabi MR, Lange AJ, Pilkis SJ.

    Unitat de Bioquimica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

    A cDNA encoding the catalytic core of a novel brain 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase isoenzyme was isolated from a lambda gt10 bovine brain library. This brain cDNA begins and ends in an open reading frame encoding a peptide of 476 amino acids. This peptide contains both the catalytic kinase and bisphosphatase domains and has an overall 65% and 67% indentity with the bovine heart and liver isozymes, respectively, whereas the NH2 and COOH-termini are divergent. An active catalytic core brain bifunctional enzyme was expressed in E. coli using a T7 RNA polymerase-based expression system. These results support the presence of a distinct gene coding for the protein in bovine brain.

    PMID: 7733968 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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