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Coding Nucleotidesequence of Rat NADPH-Cytochrome P-450 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 82, pp. 973-977, February 1985 Biochemistry Coding nucleotide sequence of rat NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase cDNA and identification of flavin-binding domains (amino acid sequence/flavoprotein/flavodoxin) TODD D. PORTER AND CHARLES B. KASPER McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Communicated by James A. Miller, October 3, 1984 ABSTRACT The coding nucleotide sequence of the mRNA flavin binding. Segments homologous with flavin-binding for NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase (NADPH:fer- segments from Desulfovibrio vulgaris flavodoxin and Esch- ricytochrome oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.4) from rat liver was erichia coli fumarate reductase are identified. determined from two overlapping cDNA clones, pOR-7 and pOR-8, which together contain 2401 nucleotides complemen- MATERIALS AND METHODS tary to rat liver oxidoreductase mRNA. The single open cDNA Cloning. cDNA (pOR-8) was synthesized (21, 22) reading frame of 2034 nucleotides spanning these cDNAs codes from 5.5 pug of oxidoreductase-immunoenriched RNA; we for a-678 amino acid polypeptide with a molecular weight of replaced the oligo(dT) primer with 0.25 uxg of a denatured 76,962. The deduced amino acid composition is in excellent 42-base-pair Hinfl/Pvu II DNA fragment prepared from agreement with that determined by direct amino acid analysis pOR-7. Blunt-ended, double-stranded cDNA was ligated to of purified rat liver P-450 oxidoreductase, and the amino- BamHI linkers (New England Biolabs) and inserted into terminal region (residues 1-80) largely coincides with the pBR322. E. coli HB101 transformants were screened (23) amiflo-terminal sequence of the oxidoreductase isolated from with a nick-translated 5' Pst I fragment of pOR-7. rabbit liver. Comparison of the amino acid sequence to those DNA Sequencing. DNA was sequenced by the method of of other flavoproteins revealed two separate domains that are Maxam and Gilbert (24) with the adenosine plus guanosine likely to be involved in flavin binding: a long segment (residues modification of Krayev et al. (25). Radionucleotides were 77-228) homologous with Desulfovibrio vulgaris flavodoxin, an purchased from Amersham; polynucleotide kinase, Klenow FMN-containing protein, and a shorter segment (residues fragment of DNA polymerase, and terminal deoxynucleo- 452-477) homologous with the FAD-binding segment of tidyltransferase were from P-L Biochemicals; restriction fumarate reductase from Escherwchia coli. enzymes were from New England Biolabs and Promega Biotec (Madison, WI). NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase (NADPH:ferri- Computer Analysis. The sequence comparison programs cytochrome oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.4) is a membrane- of the University of Wisconsin Genetics Computer Group bound flavoprotein associated with the endoplasmic were used, including Bestfit (26) and Gap (27). Regions of reticulum (1, 2) and nuclear envelope (3) of a variety of cell similarity between proteins were identified by using a com- types and is the protein responsible for electron transfer parison program with a window of 30 residues and a match from NADPH to the cytochromes P-450 (4). This enzyme stringency of 8. The similar sequences were aligned using system, although present in a variety of tissues, is found in Bestfit, with gap weight set at 5.0 and gap-length weight set greatest abundance in the liver, where it is involved in the at 0.30. oxidative metabolism of numerous endogenous and foreign compounds and in the activation of chemical carcinogens RESULTS AND DISCUSSION to electrophilic derivatives (5, 6). In addition, the oxidore- Sequence Analysis. The sequencing strategy depicted in ductase is involved in electron transfer to heme oxygenase Fig. 1 was used to determine the cDNA nucleotide sequence (7) and cytochrome b5 (8) as well as other enzyme systems shown in Fig. 2. Clone pOR-8 is 706 base pairs long and has (9-11). The 77-kDa protein is unusual in that it con. a 108-base-pair overlap with the 5' end of pOR-7. Clone tains 1 mol each of FAD and FMN (12-15). It is anchored pOR-7 previously was shown to contain "1800 nucleotides to the microsomal membrane by its hydrophobic amino- terminal region (16, 17), the sequence of which has been 5' 3' determined for the rabbit protein (18). This hydrophobic which is from the by various > if .*I "tail", readily cleaved protein I t * I + | b I proteases including trypsin, is essential for the correct ,I .. .. interaction of oxidoreductase with the cytochromes P-450 Oil.TS H A + S N V TZ HS P (B) S DZZ tB) (16, 17); however, the protease-released flavoprotein retains '' the ability to reduce cytochrome c (14, 19). Electron transfer I proceeds from NADPH to FAD to FMN to cytochrome P-450 or other electron acceptor (20). e4 100 bp This report presents the cDNA sequence and derived amino acid sequence of the rat liver oxidoreductase. Com- FIG. 1. Sequencing strategy. pOR-7 (right) and pOR-8 (left) were parison of the amino acid sequence to other sequenced digested with the indicated restriction enzymes and end-labeled with reveals two separate domains within the [y-32P]ATP and polynucleotide kinase (open arrowheads) or [a- flavoproteins 32P]dNTP and the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase (closed oxidoreductase polypeptide that are likely to be involved in arrowheads). The 5' Pvu II site of pOR-7 was 3' end-labeled with [a-32P]dATP and terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase. More than 97% of the coding sequence was determined from both DNA The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge strands. Restriction sites: A, Aha II; B, BamHI; D, Dde I; H, Hinfl; payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" N, Not I; P, Pvu II; S, Sin 1; T, Taq I; V, Ava I; Z, BstNI. bp, Base in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. pairs. 973 Downloaded by guest on September 26, 2021 974 Biochemistry: Porter and Kasper Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 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