Publication
Title
Cloning and expression of the bovine intestinal alkaline-phosphatase gene : biochemical-characterization of the recombinant enzyme
Author
Abstract
A complete genomic clone and a full-length cDNA coding for bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase have been isolated and sequenced. The gene (5.4 kb) contains 11 exons separated by ten small introns at positions identical to those of other members of the eukaryotic tissue-specific alkaline phosphatase family. In addition, 1.5 kb of upstream sequences contain putative regulatory elements showing sequence similarity to human and mouse intestinal alkaline phosphatase promoter sequences. To achieve recombinant bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase expression, the coding region of the gene was subcloned into the pcDNA I eukaryotic expression vector and transfected into Chinese hamster ovary cells. Recombinant bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase displays enzymatic properties comparable with those of purified native bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase, a slightly increased thermal stability and, upon desialylation, it shows a homogeneous behaviour in agarose gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing. The availability of the recombinant bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase and the elucidation of its primary sequence will help to accelerate our efforts to obtain the first crystallographic model of a eukaryotic alkaline phosphatase molecule.
Language
English
Source (journal)
The biochemical journal. - London, 1984, currens
Publication
London : 1993
ISSN
0264-6021 [print]
1470-8728 [online]
DOI
10.1042/BJ2900503
Volume/pages
290 :2 (1993) , p. 503-508
ISI
A1993KT72900031
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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