PMID:16202245

Citation	Zhang, X, Zhang, S, Hao, F, Lai, X, Yu, H, Huang, Y and Wang, H (2005) Expression, purification and properties of shikimate dehydrogenase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 38:624-31
Abstract	Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, continues to be one of the main diseases to mankind. It is urgent to discover novel drug targets for appropriate antimicrobial agents against this human pathogen. The shikimate pathway is considered as an attractive target for the discovery of novel antibiotics for its essentiality in bacteria and absence in mammalian cells. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis aroE-encoded shikimate dehydrogenase was cloned, expressed and purified. Sequence alignment analysis shows that shikimate dehydrogenase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibit the pattern of G-X-(N/S)-V-(T/S)-X-PX-K, which is highly conserved within the shikimate dehydrogenase family. The recombinant shikimate dehydrogenase spectrum determined by CD spectroscopy showed that the percentages for alpha-helix, beta-sheet, beta-turn, and random coil were 29.2 %, 9.3 %, 32.7 %, and 28.8 %, respectively. The enzymatic characterization demonstrates that it appears to be fully active at pH from 9.0 to 12, and temperature 63(o)C. The apparent Michaelis constant for shikimic acid and NADP(+) were calculated to be about 29.5 microM and 63 microM. The recombinant shikimate dehydrogenase catalyzes the substrate in the presence of NADP(+) with an enzyme turnover number of 399 s(-1). Zymological studies suggest that the cloned shikimate dehydrogenase from M. tuberculosis has a pretty activity, and the work should help in the discovery of enzyme inhibitors and further of possible antimicrobial agents against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Keywords	Alcohol Oxidoreductases/chemistry; Alcohol Oxidoreductases/genetics; Alcohol Oxidoreductases/isolation & purification; Alcohol Oxidoreductases/metabolism; Amino Acid Sequence; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/isolation & purification; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Enzyme Stability; Humans; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Molecular Sequence Data; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/enzymology; NADP/metabolism; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry; Recombinant Proteins/genetics; Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism; Sequence Alignment; Shikimic Acid/metabolism
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Annotations

Gene product	Qualifier	GO Term	Evidence Code	with/from	Aspect	Extension	Notes	Status
MYCTU:I6Y120		GO:0004764: shikimate 3-dehydrogenase (NADP+) activity	ECO:0000314:		F		Fig. 4A	complete CACAO 8288
MYCTU:I6Y120	enables	GO:0004764: shikimate 3-dehydrogenase (NADP+) activity	ECO:0000314: direct assay evidence used in manual assertion		F		Seeded From UniProt	complete

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