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Volume 271, Number 24, Issue of June 14, 1996 pp. 14631-14635
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Endothelial Nitric-oxide Synthase
EVIDENCE FOR BIDOMAIN STRUCTURE AND SUCCESSFUL RECONSTITUTION OF CATALYTIC ACTIVITY FROM TWO SEPARATE DOMAINS GENERATED BY A BACULOVIRUS EXPRESSION SYSTEM

(Received for publication, January 4, 1996, and in revised form, April 4, 1996)

Pei-Feng Chen , Ah-Lim Tsai , Vladimir Berka and Kenneth K. Wu

From the Vascular Biology Research Center and Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030

A baculovirus system was used to express the oxygenase and reductase domains of human endothelial nitric-oxide synthase (ecNOS) as distinct proteins. The oxygenase domain (residues 1-491) was expressed using a vector containing a His6 tag at the N terminus. The purified oxygenase domain had an apparent molecular mass of ~54 kDa, and retained the ability to bind L-arginine and form the ferrous CO complex. The purified reductase domain (residues 492-1244) had an apparent molecular mass of ~82 kDa and retained the ability to catalyze NADPH-dependent cytochrome c reduction, which was enhanced 10-fold by the presence of Ca2+/calmodulin. Both purified domains exhibited immunoreactivity to rabbit anti-ecNOS IgG. The NOS activity was successfully reconstituted by mixing the two domains. These results demonstrate for the first time that the two domains of ecNOS are catalytically intact and can be reconstituted in vitro.


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