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The human NUDT12 Nudix hydrolase has been expressed in insect cells from a baculovirus vector as a His-tagged recombinant protein. In vitro, it efficiently hydrolyses NAD(P)H to NMNH and AMP (2',5'-ADP), and diadenosine diphosphate to AMP. It also has activity towards NAD(P)(+), ADP-ribose and diadenosine triphosphate. K (m) values for NADH, NADPH and NAD(+) are 11, 16 and 190 microM and k (cat) values are 11, 16 and 10.5 s(-1) respectively. Thus, like other NADH diphosphatases of the Nudix family, NUDT12 has a marked substrate preference for the reduced nicotinamide nucleotides. Optimal activity was supported by 50 microM Mn(2+) ions in vitro, with 3-fold lower activity at 0.4 mM Mg(2+). Expression of NUDT12 as a C-terminal fusion to green fluorescent protein revealed that it was targeted to peroxisomes by the C-terminal tripeptide PNL acting as a novel type 1 peroxisomal targeting signal. Deletion of PNL resulted in diffuse cellular fluorescence. In addition, C-terminal, but not N-terminal, fusions with or without the PNL signal accumulated in large, unidentified cytoplasmic structures. NUDT12 may act to regulate the concentration of peroxisomal nicotinamide nucleotide cofactors required for oxidative metabolism in this organelle.
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PMID:Mammalian NADH diphosphatases of the Nudix family: cloning and characterization of the human peroxisomal NUDT12 protein. 1279 Jul 96

The low bioavailability of nutrients and oxygen in the soil environment has hampered successful expression of biodegradation and biocontrol genes that are driven by promoters highly active during routine laboratory conditions of high availability of nutrients and oxygen. Hence, in the present study, expression of the gus-tagged genes in 12 Tn5-gus mutants of the soil microbe Pseudomonas putida PNL-MK25 were examined under various conditions chosen to mimic the soil environment: low carbon, phosphate, nitrate or oxygen, and in the rhizosphere. Based on their expression profiles, three nutrient-responsive mutant (NRM) strains, NRM5, NRM7 and NRM17, were selected for identification of the tagged genes. In strain NRM5, expression of the glutamate dehydrogenase (gdhA) gene was increased 4.9-26.4-fold under various low-nutrient conditions. In NRM7, expression of the novel NADPH : quinone oxidoreductase-like (nql) gene was consistently amongst the highest and was synergistically upregulated by low-nutrient and anoxic conditions. The cyoD gene in NRM17, which encodes the fourth subunit of the cytochrome o ubiquinol oxidase complex, had decreased expression in low-nutrient conditions but its absolute expression level was still amongst the highest. Additionally, it was independent of oxygen availability, in contrast to that in Escherichia coli.
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PMID:Characterization of Pseudomonas putida genes responsive to nutrient limitation. 1518 52