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Query: EC:4.2.1.22 (cystathionine beta-synthase)
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Cystathionine beta-synthase has been purified from human liver more than 3000-fold by a series of steps including high speed centrifugation, ammonium sulfate fractionation, chromatography on hydroxylapatite and DEAE-cellulose, gel filtration, preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and glycerol density gradient centrifugation. The enzyme obtained is homogeneous as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in four different systems: native, isoelectric focusing, in sodium dodecyl sulfate, and in 8 M urea. The native enzyme has an estimated molecular weight of 94,000 and is composed of two apparently identical subunits of 48,000. The pure enzyme has a specific activity of 160 units/mg of protein and contains tightly bound cofactor, pyridoxal 5' -phosphate. It is possesses serine sulfhydrase as well as cystathionine synthase activity. It has a broad pH optimum from 8.4 to 9.0, apparent Km values for L-serine of 1.15 mM and for L-homocysteine of 0.59 mM, and a pI of 5.2 The enzyme is stable over a pH range from 6.5 to 8.0 in phosphate buffers and can be stored in 40% glycerol at -15 degrees C for at least 1 month.
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PMID:Purification and properties of cystathionine beta-synthase from human liver. Evidence for identical subunits. 68 63

Cystathionine beta-synthase [L-serine hydrolyase (adding homocysteine), EC 4.2.1.22] was studied in cultured skin fibroblasts from two control subjects and three patients with pyridoxine-responsive homocystinuria. In crude cell sonicates, cystathionine synthase activity detected in each mutant line was less than 5% of control values. After differential centrifugation, ammonium sulfate fractionation, and calcium phosphate gel treatment, the specific activity of synthase from control lines increased 5- to 7-fold with 70-79% yield. These same steps led to only 2- to 3-fold purification of mutant synthase and a reduced yield (26-44%). Michaelis-Menten analyses with the partially purified enzyme revealed that each mutant synthase had a marked reduction in affinity for its coenzyme, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, as well as reduced affinity and maximum velocity for both co-substrates, L-homocysteine and L-serine. Even at saturating concentrations of coenzyme, mutant synthase activity was less than 3% of control. Mutant synthase was also far more thermolabile than control enzyme. In the absence of added coenzyme, heating for 10 min at 55 degrees led to complete loss of mutant activity whereas control activity was reduced by 60%. Significantly, addition of saturating concentration of coenzyme prior to heating increased thermostability of both control and mutant synthase, the fractional increase being considerably greater in the mutants. We conclude that these patients suffer from a mutation of the synthase apoenzyme which impairs coenzyme binding, and that this primary abnormality results in reduced total enzyme activity in two ways: by reducing holoenzyme formation; and by accelerating apoenzyme degradation. We propose that pharmacologic amounts of pyridoxine increase holoenzyme formation modestly, thereby enhancing catalytic activity and slowing apoenzyme turnover.
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PMID:On the mechanism of pyridoxine responsive homocystinuria. II. Properties of normal and mutant cystathionine beta-synthase from cultured fibroblasts. 453 Oct 18

Cystathionine gamma-lyase (EC 4.4.1.1) is widely distributed in actinomycetes, e.g. genera Streptomyces, Micromonospora, Micropolyspora, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Streptosporangium, and Streptoverticillium. The enzyme was purified from Streptomyces phaeochromogenes (IFO 3105) in nine steps. After the last steps, the enzyme appeared to be homogenous by the criteria of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, analytical centrifugation, and double diffusion in agarose. The enzyme crystallized in the apo form with the addition of ammonium sulfate. The enzyme has a molecular weight of about 166,000 and consists of four subunits identical in molecular weight. The enzyme exhibits absorption maxima at 278 and 421 nm and contains 4 mol of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate/mol of enzyme. L-Cystathionine, L-homoserine, DL-lanthionine, L-djenkolic acid, and L-cystine are cleaved as preferred substrates by the Streptomyces enzyme. The alpha, beta-elimination reaction of L-cystathionine is also catalyzed by the enzyme at a ratio of about one-seventh of the alpha, gamma-elimination reaction. Cystathionine beta-synthase (EC 4.2.1.22) and cystathionine gamma-synthase (EC 4.2.99.9) activities were also detected in crude extracts of S. phaeochromogenes, but cystathionine beta-lyase (EC 4.4.1.8) was not. Consequently, the reverse transsulfuration pathway in actinomycetes may be similar to that in yeast and molds.
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PMID:Cystathionine gamma-lyase of Streptomyces phaeochromogenes. The occurrence of cystathionine gamma-lyase in filamentous bacteria and its purification and characterization. 643 81

Cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) purification from mammalian tissues is complicated by proteolysis and enzyme aggregation. To surmount these difficulties, we cloned human CBS cDNA in tandem with the beta-galactosidase sequence of the fusion vector, pAX5-, then expressed the fusion protein, beta-galactosidase/CBS, in transformed Escherichia coli cells. Proteolytic treatment of the ammonium sulfate fraction of bacterial lysates with endoproteinase Xa liberated CBS which could then be separated from its fusion partner by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. This nearly homogeneous enzyme preparation was purified 140-fold over the crude bacterial lysate with nearly 50% recovery, and its specific activity, 210 U/mg protein, was comparable to that purified from human liver. The purified enzyme contained pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and exhibited positive cooperativity toward S-adenosyl-L-methionine (Hill coefficient = 5.2; Kact = 34 microM). Km values of the cloned enzyme in the absence of AdoMet are 3.1 and 1.1 mM for serine and homocysteine, respectively. They are virtually identical to those from human hepatic CBS. A Soret absorbance band (lambda max = 428 nm) which shifted to 448 nm after reduction with sodium dithionite revealed the presence of heme in the enzyme. Expression of the fusion protein in E. coli with subsequent purification represents the first time this enzyme has been isolated in sufficient quantities for biophysical and biochemical investigation.
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PMID:Expression of human cystathionine beta-synthase in Escherichia coli: purification and characterization. 782 2

Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermanii is known to prevent mutations caused by various agents such as N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, 9-aminoacridine, 4-nitro-quinoline-1-oxide and by UV radiation in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It was also shown to prevent or repair damage caused by H(2)O(2) or UV radiation in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli, a characteristic previously designated as reactivative effect. In order to characterise this effect at the molecular level, we have purified the active component from a P. freudenreichii cell-free extract using a combination of ammonium sulfate precipitation, anion-exchange and size-exclusion chromatography. The isolated 35 kDa protein was then identified using both N-terminal and internal peptide sequencing as a cysteine synthase. The latter was localised in the P. freudenreichii proteomic map. It is constitutively expressed but also clearly induced during adaptation to detergent and heat, but not acid, stresses. The biological meaning of cysteine synthase in the context of adaptation to oxidative and non-oxidative stresses is discussed.
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PMID:Anti-stress activity of Propionibacterium freudenreichii : identification of a reactivative protein. 1503 64