Three functional luciferase domains in a single polypeptide chain

AUTOR(ES)

Li, Liming

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

We report a unique case of a gene containing three homologous and contiguous repeat sequences, each of which, after excision, cloning, and expression in Escherichia coli, is shown to code for a peptide catalyzing the same reaction as the native protein, Gonyaulax polyedra luciferase (Mr = 137). This enzyme, which catalyzes the light-emitting oxidation of a linear tetrapyrrole (dinoflagellate luciferin), exhibits no sequence similarities to other luciferases in databases. Sequence analysis also reveals an unusual evolutionary feature of this gene: synonymous substitutions are strongly constrained in the central regions of each of the repeated coding sequences.

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