Patent Application: US-69892691-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides the isolated dna sequence encloding the dimer subunit of the lysine - sensitive diaminopimelate decarboxylase from the thermophilic methylotrophic bacillus sp . mga3 .

Description:
in bacteria , the subunit molecular weights ( mw ) of dap decarboxylases from escherichia coli , corynebacterium glutamicum , pseudomonas aeruginosa and brevibacterium lactofermentum are all about 50 , 000 , while the native molecular weights differ . a number of gram - positive dap decarboxylases were each found to have a native mw in the range of 80 , 000 - 100 , 000 , indicating a dimeric protein . the same relationship between the dap decarboxylase subunit and native mga3 dap decarboxylase was found in the present investigation . in e . coli , a gram - negative bacteria , dap decarboxylase has a native mw of 200 , 000 , suggesting a tetrameric mw of 191 , 000 and a subunit mw of around 50 , 000 . the current model of dap decarboxylase regulation in e . coli involves two genes , lysa , the gene - encoding dap decarboxylase and lysr , an activatory regulator of the lysa gene . the two genes are transcribed divergently , separated by 121 base - pairs . p . j . white et al ., biochem . j ., 96 , 75 ( 1965 ), determined that the molecular weight of native e . coli dap decarboxylase is around 200 , 000 . the lysa gene encodes a 420 amino acid long peptide with a predicted molecular weight of 46 , 099 . this subunit molecular weight indicated a tetrameric native form . the lysr gene encodes a 311 amino acid polypeptide . the synthesis of dap decarboxylase in e . coli is repressed by lysine through a combined effect of lysine and the lysa product in an autogenous repression . by analysis of both the e . coli and the pseudomonas aerugenosa lysa genes in an e . coli host containing a chromosomal lysa - lacz fusion , c . f . martin et al ., fems micro . lett ., 36 , 105 ( 1986 ) demonstrated that similar intracellular levels of either p . aerugenosa or e . coli dap decarboxylase activity had very different effects on the expression of the e . coli lysa - lacz fusion . this indicated that the lysa product itself , not its dap decarboxylase activity , is involved in the autogenous regulation . lysine was found to also be an effector in repression , yet this effect was only observed in the presence of sufficient intracellular dap decarboxylase ( measured by its activity ). due to the lack of analogous genetic techniques available for gram - positive bacteria such as mga3 , analysis of the regulation of dap decarboxylase expression is less well defined than in e . coli . as discussed previously , the lysine biosynthetic pathway in spore - forming bacteria is governed by two goals , the production of lysine and meso - dap during vegetative growth and that of dipicolinic acid and meso - dap during spore formation . a . rosner , in j . bacteriol ., 121 , 20 ( 1975 ) proposed a sequential - feedback - inhibition mechanism for controlling the cell requirements for meso - dap during sporulation . by this postulate , lysine is accumulated at a latter stage of growth prior to spoulation . this inhibits dap decarboxylase which , in turn , increases the intracellular level of meso - dap necessary to fulfill the increased demand of meso - dap into cell - wall peptidoglycan . when the biosynthesis of the spore cortex has progressed to a stage where high concentrations of meso - dap are no longer needed , the meso - dap concentration increases to a level sufficient to inhibit aspartokinase i , the first enzyme in the pathway , thereby decreasing the carbon flow leading to the synthesis of the aspartate family of amino acids . the mga3 lysa gene coding for diaminopimelate ( dap ) decarboxylase was cloned by complementation of e . coli auxotrophs with a genomic library from mga3 constructed by cloning into the psti site of pbr322 . a 12 . 5 kb fragment complemented the e . coli dap decarboxylase mutation . subcloning into puc vectors of the 12 . 5 kb fragment resulted in a 2 . 3 kb fragment that coded for dap decarboxylase activity ( fig2 ). the fragment was sequenced using the sanger dideoxy method . fig3 shows the nucleotide sequence of the fragment along with the translated dap - decarboxylase subunit amino acid sequence . a large open reading frame ( orf ) was found in the dna sequence . an orf coding for a 432 amino acid peptide was found for dap decarboxylase . the predicted subunit mw of 48 , 233 for dap decarboxylase is in good agreement with the b . subtilis enzyme which has a native mw of 100 , 000 , since dap decarboxylase has been shown to be a dimer in e . coli , pseudomonas aeruginosa , and corynebacterium glutamicum . the proposed start site of each protein is shown in bold in fig3 and the proposed ribosome - binding site ( rbs ) is underlined . while no ( consensus ) gagg ribosome - binding site sequence could be found for the ribosome - binding site , the underlined sequence matched the proposed ribosome - binding site in the ak ii gene . it also contained possible rho - independent terminators ( underlined ) at the 5 &# 39 ; end of the coding region . the invention will be further described by reference to the following detailed example . the e . coli k12 strain at2452 thi - 1 lysa22 rela1 1 -, spot1 (&# 34 ; lysa22 &# 34 ;) was isolated and characterized by a . i . bukhari et al ., j . bacteriol ., 105 , 844 ( 1971 ). e . coli . dh5αf &# 39 ; f &# 39 ;/ enda1 hsdr17 ( r k - m k - ) supe44 thi - 1 reca - 1 gyra ( nal r ) rela1 d ( laczya - argf ) u169 ( j80 laczdm15 ) was purchased from bethesda research laboratories ( gaithersburg , md .). bacillus mga3 ( atcc 53907 ) was isolated at the gray freshwater institute , minnetonka , minn ., and described by schendel et al , cited above . e . coli were grown in the following : tb (&# 34 ; terrific broth &# 34 ; containing 1 . 2 % tryptone , 2 . 4 % yeast extract , 0 . 4 % glycerol , 17 mm kh 2 po 4 and 72 mm k 2 hpo 4 ), soc ( 2 % tryptone , 0 . 5 % yeast extract , 10 mm nacl , 2 . 5 mm kcl , 10 mm mgcl 2 , 10 mm mg 2 so 4 , 20 mm glucose ) ( d . hanahan , dna cloning , a practical approach , vol . 1 , d . m . glover , ed ., irl press , oxford ( 1984 ) at pages 109 - 135 ) or m9 minimal media ( t . e . maniatis et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor lab ., n . y . ( 1982 )) supplemented with 2 . 5 μg / ml of thiamine , 1 . 1m glucose , and 50 μg / ml of l - lysine . 2 . bacillus mga3 were grown in minimal salts media ( ms ) containing the following , in one liter of distilled water : k 2 hpo 4 , 3 . 8 g ; nah 2 po 4 . h 2 o , 2 . 8 g ; ( nh 4 ) 2 so 2 , 3 . 6 g ; mgso 4 . 7h 2 o , 0 . 5 g ; feso 4 . 7h 2 o , 2 mg ; cuso 4 . 5h 2 o , 40 μg ; h 3 bo 3 , 30 μg ; mnso 4 . h 2 o , 200 μg ; znso 4 . 7h 2 o , 200 μg ; na 2 moo 4 . 2h 2 o , 47 μg ; cacl 2 . h 2 o , 5 . 3 mg ; cacl 2 . 6h 2 o , 40 μg . the ph was adjusted to 7 . 4 prior to autoclaving . the minimal vitamin ( mv ) medium was the ms medium supplemented with biotin , 50 μg / liter , and vitamin b 12 , 1 μg / liter . yeast extract ( my ) medium was mv medium containing 0 . 5 g / liter yeast extract . both mv and my media contained 0 . 5 % ( vol / vol ) methanol . mv or my plating media contained 1 . 5 % bacto - agar and the following modifications : ( nh 4 ) 2 so 2 was reduced to 1 . 3 g / liter , k 2 hpo 4 to 0 . 4 g / liter and nah 2 po 4 . h 2 o was omitted . the e . coli plasmid puc18 ( ampicillin r ) was a gift from dr . p . b . hackett and the plasmid puc19 ( chloramphenicol r ) was a gift of dr . j . fuchs . restriction endonucleases , t4 dna ligase , klenow fragment of dna polymerase 1 , and bacterial alkaline phosphatase were purchased from bethesda research laboratories ( gaithersburg , md .). sequenase , dideoxynucleotide mixes , and universal (- 20 ) and - 40 forward - sequencing primer were purchased from u . s . biochemical corp . ( cleveland , ohio ). the t7 reverse sequencing primer , exonuclease 111 / s1 nuclease &# 34 ; erase - a - base &# 34 ; nested deletion kit was purchased from promega corp . ( madison , wis .). α 32 p - datp ( 1000 ci / mmol ) was purchased from amersham corp . ( arlington heights , ill .). α 32 p - dctp ( 3000 ci / mmol ) and γ 32 p - datp ( 3000 ci / mmol ) were purchased from dupont - nen ( boston , mass .). 1 , 7 - 14 c - diaminopimelate ( mixed isomers , 29 mci / mmol ) was purchased from icn biochemicals ( irvine , calif .). hyamine hydroxide , β - mercaptoethanol , l - lysine , and other basic reagents were purchased from sigma chemical co . ( st . louis , mo .). plasmid dna from e . coli was isolated by the method of h . c . birnham et al ., nucl . acids res ., 7 , 1513 ( 1979 ), with the following modifications . one ml of cells from an overnight tb culture was pelleted in a 1 . 5 ml microfuge tube and resuspended in 100 μl of solution a ( 50 mm glucose , 25 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 0 , 10 mm edta ). to this mixture 200 μl of solution b ( 0 . 2n naoh , 1 % sds ) was added , followed by inversion several times to ensure mixing . 175 μl of solution c ( 3m sodium acetate , ph 4 . 8 ) was then added , the eppendorf tube mixed by inversion , and placed at - 20 ° c . for 20 minutes . the solution was pelleted for 5 minutes in an eppendorf centrifuge and the supernatant saved . the dna in the supernatant solution was then precipitated with 400 μl of isopropanol , resuspended in 200 μl of 03m nacl and precipitated again with 400 μl of 95 % ethanol . the pellet was then air - dried and resuspended in 50 μl te ( 10 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 0 , 1 mm edta ). for a typical restriction analysis , 5 μl of this solution was used with 1 μl of 10 μg / ml rnase , and the restriction enzyme of choice . purification of plasmid for double - stranded dideoxy - chain termination sequencing was performed according to the procedure of p . kreig et al . ( promega catalog , madison , wis . ( 1986 )). fifty ml of overnight culture was pelleted in a 30 ml corex tube at 5000 rpm in a beckmann ja10 rotor . the pellet was resuspended in 6 ml of 25 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 0 , 10 mm edta , 15 % sucrose , and 2 mg / ml lysozyme ( added fresh ) and incubated on ice for 20 minutes . to this solution was added 20 ml of 0 . 2n naoh , 1 % sds . the mixture was inverted gently and incubated on ice for 10 minutes . 7 . 5 ml of 3m sodium acetate , ph 4 . 8 , was added and the solution again mixed gently by inversion . the mixture was centrifuged in a beckmann ja10 rotor at 15000 rpm for 15 minutes . the supernate was removed and the nucleic acids precipitated with 0 . 6 volume of isopropanol . the resulting pellet was then resuspended in 5 ml of te containing 50 μg / ml rnase . after incubation at 37 ° c . for 20 minutes , the solution was extracted twice with 5 ml of phenol saturated with te , and once with 5 ml of phenol : chloroform ( 1 : 1 ). the plasmid dna was then pelleted with 2 . 5 volumes of 95 % ethanol . the resulting pellet was resuspended in 1 . 6 ml of h 2 o to which 0 . 4 ml of 4m nacl was added and the solution mixed . two ml of 13 % polyethylene - glycol ( mw - 8000 ) was then added and the mixture incubated on ice for 1 hour . the mixture was then centrifuged at 10 , 000 rmp ( beckmann ja20 ) and the pellet washed with 70 % and then 95 % ethanol . finally the pellet was dissolved in 200 μl of te and the plasmid concentration determined by optical density at a260 . chromosomal dna was isolated by the procedure of r . e . yasbin et ., j . bacteriol ., 121 , 296 ( 1975 ), with the following modifications . bacterial cells were incubated overnight in 100 ml of my media ( bacillus mga3 ) at 50 ° c . and centrifuged 4000 × g in a beckman ja20 rotor for 10 min . the cell pellet was resuspended in 0 . 05 × of the starting volume in stet buffer ( 5 % sucrose , 8 % triton - x 100 , 50 mm edta , 50 mm tris - cl , ph 8 . 0 ) plus lysozyme ( 100 μl / ml final concentration ; sigma ) for 1 hour at 37 ° c . proteinase k ( 40 μl / ml final concentration ) and rnase a ( 20 μg / ml final conc .) were added and the preparation allowed to incubate a further hour at 37 ° c . sodium dodecyl sulfate ( sds ) and sarkosyl ( 0 . 1 ml from a stock solution containing 10 % sds and 8 % sarkosyl per 5 ml dna preparation ) were added and gently mixed at 50 ° c . until all membrane material was dissolved ( around 20 minutes ). the preparation was then extracted twice with te saturated phenol and once with chloroform ( 24 : 1 , chloroform : isoamyl alcohol ). dna was then isolated by layering onto the preparation 2 volumes of ice - cold 95 % ethanol and spooling the dna around a glass rod . the dna remaining on the glass rod was washed twice with 95 % ethanol , air dried 10 minutes at room temperature and redissolved in te ( 10 mm tris - cl ph 8 . 0 , 1 mm edta ). all restriction enzymes , t4 ligase , klenow fragment , and bacterial alkaline phosphatase , were used as recommended by the suppliers . dna fragments were analyzed by horizontal electrophoresis in agarose gels with tae buffer . lamda dna ( brl ) cut with hind 111 and bst e 11 was used as a molecular weight standard as well as a concentration reference . dna fragments were isolated from low melting point agarose ( biorad ) by the method of langridge et al ., anal . biochem ., 103 , 264 ( 1980 ). transformation of e . coli was performed essentially as described in hanahan , cited above . e . coli cells were grown in 500 ml of soc media in a 21 shake flask to a cell density of 4 - 7 × 10 7 cfu / ml ( o . d . of 1 . 0 ). the cells were centrifuged at 4000 × g for 10 minutes and resuspended in 167 ml ( 1 / 3 volume ) of sterile rf1 ( 100 mm rbcl , 50 mm mgcl 2 . 4h 2 o , 30 mm potassium acetate , 10 mm cacl 2 . 2h 2 o , 15 % glycerol -- adjusting ph to 5 . 8 with 0 . 2m acetate acid ). the cells were then incubated on ice for 20 minutes and centrifuged at 4000 × g for 10 minutes . this final pellet resuspended in 42 ml ( 1 / 12 volume ) sterile rf2 ( 10 mm , ph 6 . 8 , 10 mm rbcl , 75 mm cacl 2 2h 2 o , 15 % glycerol ) and incubated on ice for 15 minutes . the competent cells were distributed into 200 μl aliquots and quick frozen in a dry ice / ethanol bath and placed at - 70 ° c . for a simple transformation a tube ( s ) was removed and allowed to thaw at room temperature . the dna was added in a volume of less than 20 μl , mixed by swirling the tube , and incubated on ice for 30 minutes . the cells were then heat shocked at 42 ° c . for one minute and immediately placed on ice . 800 μl of soc medium was then added and the cells incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 minutes . finally , the cells were plated on the appropriate media for selection . the e . coli cells were grown in 500 ml of tb to an optical density of ( od 600nm ) of 1 . 0 . the cells were harvested by centrifugation 4000 × g for 15 minutes . the cell pellet was then washed twice in 500 ml of sterile h 2 o and resuspended in 10 ml of cold 10 % glycerol . the cells were then distributed in 50 μl aliquots , quick frozen in a dry ice / ethanol bath and stored at - 70 ° c . transformation was performed by mixing 1 μl of dna solution ( 10 ng - 10 ug / μl ) with the 50 μl electrocompetent cells , placing the solution inside an electrode ( btx ), and pulsing with 17 kv / cm for 5 ms . the transformed cells were then immediately placed in 300 μl of soc medium and incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 minutes . finally the cells were plated on the appropriate media for selection . the puc18am - lys2 . 3 sma1 - sst1 fragment was sequenced by the dideoxynucleotide chain termination method of f . sanger et al . ( pnas usa , 71 , 5463 ( 1977 )), using m13 universal primers (- 20 and - 40 ) ( new england biolab ) in the forward direction and the t7 reverse sequencing primer ( promega ) for the reverse direction . gaps in the complete sequence were filled in by synthezing primers on an applied biosystems primer system according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s recommendations . sequencing reactions were separated using buffer gradient urea / acrylamide gels as described by m . d . biggin et al . ( pnas usa , 80 , 3963 ( 1983 )). sequence data was analyzed using intellegenetics software . e . coli lysa22 cells were grown to an od 600nm of between 0 . 7 and 1 . 0 in 100 ml of minimal m9 media supplemente with 50 μl / ml l - lysine ( for those plasmids not encoding a dap decarboxylase activity ) and appropriate antibiotic . the cells were washed in 10 ml of dap decarboxylase enzymatic assay buffer ( see below ), collected and resuspended in 3 ml of the same buffer , and sonicated on ice for 30 seconds at 95 % using a biotip sonicator . the cell debris was then centrifuged at 16000 × g for 20 minutes and the cell supernatant removed and assayed for protein concentration and dap decarboxylase activity dap decarboxylase assays were performed on column fractions or crude e . coli cell extracts as described by j . g . kelland et al ., biochemistry , 24 , 3263 ( 1985 ), with the following modifications . the assay mixtures contained 50 mm potassium phosphate and 50 mm mops buffers at ph 7 . 5 , 1 mm edta , 1 mm β - mercaptoethanol , 0 . 2 μl pyridoxal - 5 &# 39 ;- phosphate , 10 nci of [ 1 , 7 - 14 c ] diaminopimelate ( mixed isomers ) and enzyme to a final volume of 1 ml . the reaction was performed in scintillation vials with caps containing a 1 . 5 cm × 1 . 5 cm piece of whatmann 3mm filter paper saturated with 20 μl of 1m hyamine hydroxide as a 14 co 2 trapping agent . the reaction was initiated by addition of enzyme and the assay mixture incubated at 50 ° c . for 5 minutes with continual shaking . the reaction was quenched by addition of 200 μl of 10 % tca and the vial shaken in additional 15 minutes to ensure complete 14 co 2 evolution . the filter paper was then removed and counted in 10 ml of ecoscint scintillation cocktail on a beckman ls7000 scintillation counter . one unit of dap decarboxylase activity is defined as the amount of enzyme which liberates 1 umol of co 2 per minute . protein concentrations were determined by the absorbance at 280 nm or by a modified lowry method ( j . biol . chem ., 193 , 265 ( 1951 )). the plasmid pdm1 shown in fig2 carries a 12 . 5 kb pst1 fragment isolated from bacillus mga3 chromosomal dna in the pst1 site on the plasmid pbr322 . this fragment and restriction fragments thereof , were subcloned into puc19cm vectors and used to complement e . coli strain at2452 ( lysa22 ). this allowed the localization of the bacillus mga3 lysa - complementing gene within a 2 . 3 kb sma1 - sst1 fragment . further restriction analysis indicated neither ava11 - sst1 fragment nor the sma1 - ava11 was able to complement the e . coli lysa22 auxotroph indicating the bacillus mga3 meso - dap decarboxylase encoding fragment lies completely within the sma1 - sst1 fragment . the nucleotide sequence of the 2 . 3 kb sma1 - sst1 fragment was determined by the method of f . sanger et al ., pnas usa , 71 , 5463 ( 1977 ). deletion subclones of the sma1 - sst1 fragment were created utilizing the erase - a - base kit ( promega corp .) as recommended by the manufacturer . subclones were sequenced using &# 34 ; universal &# 34 ; - 20 and - 40 primers and the t7 reverse sequencing primer with gaps in the sequence filled by primers synthesized at bpti . the strategy allowed complete determination of both strands . as shown in fig3 there is one large open reading frame with an initiating atg codon and a putative ribosome - binding site ( rbs ) ggga six bases upstream of the initiating methionine codon . the open reading frame encodes a 437 amino acid peptide corresponding to a 48 , 223 kd protein . this is the dap decarboxylase dimer subunit . one hundred and seventy - four basepairs upstream from the translation start site is a putative promoter structure , - 10 /- 35 region closely matching the promoter identified in the aspartokinase ii gene . immediately downstream of the bacillus mga3 meso - dap decarboxylase open reading frame is a region of dyad symmetry . followed by a string of pyrimidine bases indicative of a ρ - independent termination site in other bacteria . analysis of the bacillus mga3 lysa 3 &# 39 ; flanking sequences reveal another open reading frame 387 basepairs downstream of the lysa stop codon . the open reading frame encodes a 102 amino acid peptide and possesses a typical ribosome - binding site concensus (&# 34 ; gagg &# 34 ;) immediately upstream of the initiating methionine codon . the identity of this putative open reading frame has yet to be determined . for all of the following physical and kinetic analysis , the bacillus mga3 meso - dap decarboxylase was purified from an e . coli lysa22 auxotrophic mutant containing the pdm5 plasmid . the purification occurred as per y . asada et al ., biol . chem ., 45 , 1513 ( 1981 ), with the following modifications . all steps of the purification occurred at 4 ° c . e . coli at2452 thi 1 lysa22 rela11 - spot1 : pdm1 containing the recombinant bacillus mga3 lysa gene was grown in a 30 liter new brunswick fermentor with base addition using tb media as described in materials and methods . for a typical purification , 65 grams of wet cell paste was resuspended in 200 ml of 4 ° c . purification buffer # 1 ( 50 mm kpo 4 , ph 7 . 5 , 1 mm edta , 20 μm plp , 0 . 01 % 2 - mercaptoethanol ) and disrupted by passage twice through a french press . the supernatant obtained by centrifugation for 1 hour at 20 , 000 rpm in a beckmann ja20 rotor at 4 ° c ., was fractionated with ammonium sulfate ( 25 % to 40 % saturation ). the resulting fraction was desalted by passage through a sephadex g - 25 column ( 27 cm × 2 . 5 cm ) and the protein peak diluted two - fold with purification buffer # 1 before application to a deae - agarose column equilibrated with the same buffer . after washing the column , the enzyme was eluted with a potassium chloride gradient ( 0 to 300 mm kcl ) in purification buffer # 1 . active fractions , eluting around 200 mm kcl , were pooled and dialyzed against purification buffer # 2 ( 10 mm kpo 4 , ph 6 . 5 , 1 mm edta , 20 μm plp , 0 . 01 % 2 - mercaptoethanol ). the enzyme pool was then applied to a hydroxyapatite column ( 20 cm × 1 cm ) previously equilibrated in purification buffer # 2 and further washed in purification buffer # 2 . the enzyme was eluted with a potassium phosphate gradient ( 10 mm to 300 mm kpo 4 ) in purification buffer # 2 with the active fractions centering around 60 mm kpo 4 . the enzyme was then pooled and dialyzed against purification buffer # 1 prior to : 1 ) application to sephacryl s - 300 sizing column , 2 ) kinetic analysis , 3 ) further purification on a fplc mono - q column prior to n - terminal sequencing . as determined by sds - page analysis , the subunit molecular weight of dap decarboxylase is around 50 , 000 . this correlates well with the predicted molecular weight of the bacillus mga3 dap decarboxylase dimer subunit sequence ( 48 , 223 mw ). the native molecular weight is 86 , 000 as determined by the sephacryl s - 300 gel filtration method of p . andews , biochem . j ., 91 , 222 ( 1965 ). prior to n - terminal sequencing , hydroxyapatite fractions were pooled and concentrated via ultrafiltration and applied to a fplc mono - q column previously equilibrated with purification buffer # 1 . using a potassium chloride gradient ( 1 to 1m kcl ) in purification buffer # 1 , dap decarboxylase - active fractions were eluted at around 100 mm kcl . these fractions were pooled and protein was tca - precipitated prior to sds - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequent transfer to a problott membrane ( biorad ). electrophoretic transfer of protein of the problott polyvinylidene diflouride ( pvdf ) membrane was performed as described by p . matsudaira , j . biol . chem ., 262 , 10035 ( 1987 ). the dap decarboxylase protein bands , identified by relative mobility compared to previous sds - page gels , were excised and stored in glass vials . n - terminal sequence analysis was performed at the university of minnesota , microchemical facility . the n - terminal sequence determined , met - tyr - phe - x - x - thr - x - lys - val , matches the predicted start site as exactly indicated from the dna sequence shown in fig3 . for bacillus mga3 meso - dap decarboxylase , the concentration of diaminopimelate necessary for half - maximal activity was determined to be 0 . 80 mm . l - lysine behaved as a competitive inhibitor ( ki = 0 . 93 mm ) with respect to diaminopimelate . other amino acids alone or in combination with lysine did not inhibit the enzyme ( table 1 ). table 1 . ______________________________________enzyme inhibition at 37 ° c . amino acid % inhibitionaddition ( 5 mm ) dap decarboxylase aspartokinase ii______________________________________none 0 0lys 85 96thr 10 0met 19 8ile 16 0lys ( 0 . 5 mm ) 41 76lys ( 0 . 5 mm ), 37 77thr ( 5 mm ) ______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 2 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 2368 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( vii ) immediate source :( b ) clone : dap decarboxylase gene ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 265 .. 1560 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : cgggtcaaaaatacgcccaagcatcattcatacaaaaaatcgataccgccaaccgacata60agaaaagcagaagcattatgcaacttgaatcaattgcgaattttcaaatc ttatggtaag120tttgtttttattaaagaatccattaaagggcagaaatcaatacctacttgaaagattcta180ttcatttgtttatattcaaaataattcatttttaataaatattcgggatcgacatattga240gtgataaggggaatgggaacagaaat gtattttcatggcacaacaaaggta291mettyrphehisglythrthrlysval15aatgaaaagggacatttagaaatcggcggagt ggatacgatcgaactt339asnglulysglyhisleugluileglyglyvalaspthrilegluleu10152025gcacaaaagtatggcacgcctctatatg tatacgacgttgctttaatt387alaglnlystyrglythrproleutyrvaltyraspvalalaleuile303540cgcgagcgggctagagggtttaaaaat 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