TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular cloning of human phosphomevalonate kinase and identification of a consensus peroxisomal targeting sequence
AU - Chambliss, Ken L.
AU - Slaughter, Clive A.
AU - Schreiner, Rupert
AU - Hoffmann, Georg F.
AU - Michael Gibson, K.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Two overlapping cDNAs which encode human liver phosphomevalonate kinase (PMKase) were isolated. The human PMKase cDNAs predict a 191-amino acid protein with a molecular weight of 21,862, consistent with previous reports for mammalian PMKase (M(r) = 21,00022,500). Further verification of the clones was obtained by expression of PMKase activity in bacteria using a composite 1024-base pair cDNA clone. Northern blot analysis of several human tissues revealed a doublet of transcripts at approximately 1 kilobase (kb) in heart, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, and pancreas and lower but detectable transcript levels in brain, placenta, and lung. Analysis of transcripts from human lymphoblasts subcultured in lipid-depleted sera (LDS) and LDS supplemented with lovastatin indicated that PMKase gene expression is subject to regulation by sterol at the level of transcription. Southern blotting indicated that PMKase is a single copy gene covering less than 15 kb in the human genome. The human PMKase amino acid sequence contains a consensus peroxisomal targeting sequence (PTS-1), Ser-Arg-Leu, at the C terminus of the protein. This is the first report of a cholesterol biosynthetic protein which contains a consensus PTS-1, providing further evidence for the concept that early cholesterol and nonsterol isoprenoid biosynthesis may occur in the peroxisome.
AB - Two overlapping cDNAs which encode human liver phosphomevalonate kinase (PMKase) were isolated. The human PMKase cDNAs predict a 191-amino acid protein with a molecular weight of 21,862, consistent with previous reports for mammalian PMKase (M(r) = 21,00022,500). Further verification of the clones was obtained by expression of PMKase activity in bacteria using a composite 1024-base pair cDNA clone. Northern blot analysis of several human tissues revealed a doublet of transcripts at approximately 1 kilobase (kb) in heart, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, and pancreas and lower but detectable transcript levels in brain, placenta, and lung. Analysis of transcripts from human lymphoblasts subcultured in lipid-depleted sera (LDS) and LDS supplemented with lovastatin indicated that PMKase gene expression is subject to regulation by sterol at the level of transcription. Southern blotting indicated that PMKase is a single copy gene covering less than 15 kb in the human genome. The human PMKase amino acid sequence contains a consensus peroxisomal targeting sequence (PTS-1), Ser-Arg-Leu, at the C terminus of the protein. This is the first report of a cholesterol biosynthetic protein which contains a consensus PTS-1, providing further evidence for the concept that early cholesterol and nonsterol isoprenoid biosynthesis may occur in the peroxisome.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.271.29.17330
DO - 10.1074/jbc.271.29.17330
M3 - Article
C2 - 8663599
AN - SCOPUS:0030016345
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 271
SP - 17330
EP - 17334
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 29
ER -