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Si+ hybrid ColE1 plasmids of the Clarke-Carbon collection (Clarke, C., and Carbon, J. (1976) Cell 9, 91-99) which eliminate the sn-glycerol 3-phosphate growth requirement of a mutant of Escherichia coli with a Km defect in sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (plsB) were identified. Marked overproduction of a plasmid-encoded sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase with a wild type Km in a host plsB- background indicates that the hybrid plasmids carry a structural gene for this enzyme. In addition, all of these plasmids suppress the phenotype of a mutation in a second locus involved in phospholipid biosynthesis, dgk (diglyceride kinase), and one of them also bears the dnaB structural gene. Diglyceride kinase activity is also overproduced in these strains. The linkage of plsB, dgk and dnaB loci was confirmed by transduction analysis which demonstrated the clockwise gene order malB, dnaB, dgk, plsB, and uvrA near Minute 91 on the E. coli linkage map. This is in contrast to the previously reported co-transduction of plsB with dctA near Minute 78 (Cronan, J. E., Jr., and Bell, R. M. (1974) J. Bacteriol., 120, 227-233). Recloning of restriction endonuclease fragments and in vitro mutagenesis have localized the dgk, and plsB loci to a 2.2-megadalton DNA segment, and have demonstrated that diglyceride kinase and sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase activities reside in separate polypeptides. Availability of these clones and mutationally altered derivatives has allowed the identification of a single polypeptide (Mr = 83,000) corresponding to the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase and purification of this membrane-bound enzyme to near homogeneity (Larson, T. J., Lightner, V. A., Green, P. R., Modrich, P., and Bell, R. M. (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 9421-9426). The size of the plsB polypeptide indicates that a major fraction of the DNA segment to which this gene has been localized is involved in coding for the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase.
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PMID:Membrane phospholipid synthesis in Escherichia coli. Cloning of a structural gene (plsB) of the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyl/transferase. 625 Oct 87

The stromal glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferases (GPATs; EC 2.3.1.15) from spinach (Spinacia oleracea) and squash (Cucurbita moschata) were expressed in Escherichia coli and their activities with palmitoyl-CoA and oleoyl-CoA compared. The GPAT from squash, a chilling-sensitive plant, was found to have the greatest difference in activities between the two substrates, using palmitoyl-CoA over three times faster than oleoyl-CoA. In contrast, the enzyme from spinach, a chilling-tolerant plant, preferred oleoyl-CoA over palmitoyl-CoA. By using conserved restriction endonuclease sites each of the two genes was divided into three fragments of roughly equal size and recombined to create six different chimeras. All chimeras retained a large portion of their original activity but in most cases the specificity was greatly altered. The central third of the protein was found to contain the structural features which determine substrate specificity of the wild-type GPATs. Two of the chimeras, which have a spinach-derived central region and a squash-derived carboxyl region, were found to have greatly enhanced specificities for 18:1 acyl chains, potentially making them ideal for decreasing the level of saturation of plant membrane lipids through genetic engineering.
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PMID:Substrate specificity modification of the stromal glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase. 901 14