Part:BBa_K3022002
ppk1 in Citrobacter freundii ATCC 8090
Natural function of part: The polyphosphate kinase in Citrobacter freundii ATCC 8090 is responsible for its intracellular inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) production via reversibly catalyzing the transfer of terminal phosphate from ATP to a growing polyP chain.
Wild-type Citrobacter freundii ATCC 8090 was purchased from China Center of Industrial Culture Collection (CICC, China). The ppk1 gene was acquired by PCR. This organism is our chasiss, in which its native PPK1 will be overexpressed with a plasmid of medium-copy numbers.
Although PPKs from E. coli and C. freundii shares 96% amino acids’ identity, the C. freundii PPK has a glutamate and a lysine residue in positions 327 and 328, where in E. coli they are substituted by much less strongly charged alanine and glutamine residues, respectively. Although these natural occurred mutation sites found in C. freundii PPK are distant from the enzymes’ active site, they lie in the interfaces among monomers of the PPK tetramer. Benefit from this difference, a dramatic increase of intracellular polyP accumulation can be achieved with C. freundii.
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
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