Cloning and Expression of Deoxyribonuclease II from Chicken
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Gene 373 (2006) 44–51 www.elsevier.com/locate/gene Cloning and expression of deoxyribonuclease II1 from chicken☆ ⁎ Kyle S. MacLea, Hans H. Cheng United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, 3606 East Mount Hope Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48823, USA Received 21 November 2005; received in revised form 27 December 2005; accepted 28 December 2005 Available online 24 February 2006 Received by M. Batzer Abstract Acid endonucleases of the deoxyribonuclease II (DNase II, EC 3.1.22.1) family have been implicated in the degradation of DNA from apoptotic cell corpses formed in the process of normal mammalian development. Although a predicted DNase II has been detected in the chicken through expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis, to date no homolog of these important enzymes has been identified in vivo in any avian species. Here we report the cloning and expression of DNase II from the chicken, Gallus gallus. When expressed, the 363 amino acid glycoprotein is observed to be approximately 45 kDa in size and to exhibit DNA hydrolytic activity at pH 5 consistent with DNase II in other species. Furthermore, chicken DNase II sequence is compared with an identified partial sequence from the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, as well as the previously identified homologs found in the fowlpox and canarypox viruses and the previously cloned mammalian DNases II. Through analysis of its amino acid sequence, comparative gene structure, and conserved synteny, chicken DNase II appears to represent a member of the DNase IIβ subfamily and the apparent lack of a DNase IIα homolog in the chicken has important evolutionary implications for the study of this gene family. Published by Elsevier B.V. Keywords: DNase II; DNase IIβ; DLAD; Chicken; Fowlpox; Canarypox 1. Introduction have been identified: DNase IIα (Krieser and Eastman, 1998; Baker et al., 1998) and DNase IIβ (also known as DNase II-like DNase II (EC 3.1.22.1) is an endonuclease with an acidic Acid DNase or DLAD) (Shiokawa and Tanuma, 1999; Krieser pH optimum, which has been reported in lysosomes and et al., 2001). Though in these studies DNase IIα was secretions from cells of many organisms (MacLea et al., 2003b; ubiquitously expressed in all the tissues examined, DNase Evans and Aguilera, 2003). In humans and rodents, the IIβ has a more restricted pattern of expression that varies by mammalian organisms in which DNase II has been studied the organism. Both family members play a critical role in most extensively, two members of the DNase II enzyme family degradation of undigested apoptotic cell DNA that normally accumulates during development (Kawane et al., 2001; Krieser Abbreviations: BLAST, basic local alignment search tool; EST, expressed et al., 2002; Nishimoto et al., 2003). In particular, the activities sequence tag; EGFP, enhanced green fluorescent protein; ECL, enhanced encoded by these enzymes are critical steps in the processes of chemiluminescence; βME, β-mercaptoethanol; SRED, single radial enzyme definitive erythropoiesis (DNase IIα) and lens cell differenti- diffusion; SD, standard deviation; TM, tunicamycin; RACE, rapid amplification ation (DNase IIβ). of cDNA ends. ☆ The use of trade, firm, or corporation names in this publication is for the Acid endonuclease activity has also been reported in the information and convenience of the reader. Such use does not constitute an chicken (Torriglia et al., 2001). However, despite the cloning of official endorsement or approval by the United States Department of Agriculture DNase II family members in several mammalian organisms, no or the Agricultural Research Service of any product or service to the exclusion of DNase II homolog has been cloned or purified from an avian others that may be suitable. species. Although our previous work had identified a likely ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 517 337 6758; fax: +1 517 337 6776. E-mail address: [email protected] (H.H. Cheng). chicken DNase II in expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences 1 The nucleotide sequence of chicken DNase II reported in this paper is (MacLea et al., 2003a), it had never been identified in vivo available from GenBank, accession number DQ272298. before. Here we report the first cloning and expression of an 0378-1119/$ - see front matter. Published by Elsevier B.V. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2005.12.019 K.S. MacLea, H.H. Cheng / Gene 373 (2006) 44–51 45 active avian DNase II. Isolated from the chicken, Gallus gallus, the full-length cDNA (including some sequence from the 5′ and the study of this avian DNase II has potentially important 3′ untranslated regions) and clone it into a eukaryotic expres- implications for understanding the evolutionary history of the sion vector (Fig. 1). DNase II protein family, especially in light of the recently To perform the PCR amplifications, custom oligonucleotides completed genome draft sequence of the chicken (Hillier et al., were synthesized, desalted, and lyophilized, by Operon Bio- 2004). technologies (Huntsville, Alabama). As shown in the schematic diagram (Fig. 1), these primers were used: 2. Materials and methods KM-D2B-F2 (5′-CGCTCACTGTGCCACGCCGAGATG-3′) 2.1. Database searches KM-D2B-R2 (5′-GCTGTTTGGGAGGAACAGTCC-3′) Using human DNase IIα (AAC77366) and fowlpox Cel1/ DNase II (CAA07012) protein sequences as the query sequences for BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), tblastn searches were conducted of GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website (http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). Further searches for expressed se- quence tags (ESTs) were undertaken using the BBSRC ChickEST Database (http://www.chick.umist.ac.uk/), the Uni- versity of Delaware Chick EST Project (http://www.chickest. udel.edu/), and the Songbird Neurogenomics Initiative EST Project (http://titan.biotec.uiuc.edu/songbird/). Later, to look for further homologues from chicken, the cloned chicken DNase II sequence was also employed as the query sequence for searches of each of these databases and the chicken genome draft sequence (http://www.ensembl.org/Gallus_gallus/). 2.2. Sequence analysis and multiple sequence alignment Sequence analysis and multiple sequence alignments were undertaken using the ClustalW webserver (http://www.ebi.ac. uk/clustalw/)(Chenna et al., 2003). BOXSHADE 3.21 (http:// www.ch.embnet.org/software/BOX_form.html) was used to create and shade the sequence alignment image. To improve clarity in alignments, Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe Illustrator CS (Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA) were used to delineate important protein sequence features. Signal peptide predictions used the SignalP 3.0 webserver (http://www.cbs.dtu. dk/services/SignalP/). Gene structure was determined using data from superimposition of the cDNA on the chicken genome draft sequence and illustrated using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. 2.3. Cloning of chicken DNase II and plasmid vector construction Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of chicken DNase II cloning and subsequent EST sequences from earlier studies (MacLea et al., 2003a) eukaryotic expression plasmid construction. Briefly, total cellular mRNA from and new database searches (see Section 2.1 above) were line 0 embryos was purified, reverse transcribed, and amplified using specific assembled using Sequencher 4.5 software (Gene Codes, Ann primers (KM-D2B-F2 and -R2) to isolate the chicken DNase II cDNA. This cDNA was introduced into the pCR4 plasmid vector using the TOPO TA kit Arbor, Michigan). These sequence tags contained DNase II (Invitrogen), creating pcD2B-TOPO. A second round of PCR amplification with sequence: BI392355, BG625517, AJ398432, BI066323, different primers (KM-D2B-F1 and -R1) was used to introduce a Kozak BM440623, BM426634, BI064835, CR386219, BU241744, consensus sequence, 3′ Gly–Ala–Gly linker and FLAG (Asp–Tyr–Lys–Asp– BU248722, BU397546, BU240892, CK607806, CK608165, Asp–Asp–Lys) tag sequence, and restriction sites for cloning, creating the BU241430, CV040649, BU299065, BU240964, CV889510, pcD2B-Ex2 vector. To facilitate cloning into a eukaryotic expression vector, pSELECT (InvivoGen), a third set of primers (D2B-pSEL-F1 and -R1) were BU235150, BU457064, BU215085, CF255243, BU473125, used to introduce BamHI and NheI sites for cloning. Two stop codons were CK610893, BU420073, and BU338155. The assembled pre- added at the 3′ end of the FLAG tag as well. The final expression vector was dicted DNase II sequence was used to design primers to amplify named pSELECT-D2B. 46 K.S. MacLea, H.H. Cheng / Gene 373 (2006) 44–51 KM-D2B-F1 (5′-GCGGCCGCACCATGACTGCGAGCTC Rockford, IL) and standardized by serial dilution of bovine TGTGTGGTGC-3′) serum albumen. KM-D2B-R1 (5′-CTCGAGCTTGTCGTCGTCGTCCTTGT AGTCTCCGGCTCCTATC CACGTGGAAGCATCATT-3′). 2.5. Western blot analysis D2B-pSEL-F1 (5′-TATAGGATCCACCATGACTGCGA GCTCTGTGTGGTGC-3′) Cell lysates were examined using the NuPAGE gel D2B-pSEL-R1 (5′-TATAGCTAGCTCAATCACTTGT electrophoresis system (Invitrogen). Lysates were boiled in CGTCGTCGTCCTTGTAGTCT CCGGC-3′). NuPAGE LDS buffer in the presence of β-mercaptoethanol (βME; Sigma) and electrophoresed on a 12% NuPAGE Bis– RNA was prepared using the RNAqueous kit (Ambion, Tris gel using NuPAGE 1× MOPS buffer. Proteins were Austin, Texas) with tissue from 11-day old ADOL Line 0 chick transferred to Immobilon-P polyvinylidene fluoride membrane embryos (Bacon et al., 2000). RACE-ready cDNA was (Millipore, Bedford, Massachusetts) and blocked in TBSTM prepared using the BD SMART RACE cDNA kit (BD [25mM Tris, pH 8, 125mM NaCl, 0.05% tween 20 (v/v), 5%