Evidence for an inhibitory LIM domain in a rat brain agmatinase-like protein
2011
Abstract We recently cloned a rat brain agmatinase-like protein (ALP) whose amino acid sequence greatly differs from other agmatinases and exhibits a LIM-like domain close to its carboxyl terminus. The protein was immunohistochemically detected in the hypothalamic region and hippocampal astrocytes and neurons. We now show that truncated species, lacking the LIM-type domain, retains the dimeric structure of the wild-type protein but exhibits a 10-fold increased k cat , a 3-fold decreased K m value for agmatine and altered intrinsic tryptophan fluorescent properties. As expected for a LIM protein, zinc was detected only in the wild-type ALP (∼2 Zn 2+ /monomer). Our proposal is that the LIM domain functions as an autoinhibitory entity and that inhibition is reversed by interaction of the domain with some yet undefined brain protein.
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