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Functional Characterization of Mammalian Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferases I and II Expressed in the Yeast Pichia pastoris^{1 ,2}

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Beaverton, OR 97006-8921

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Mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferases I and II (CPTI and CPTII), together with the carnitine carrier, transport long-chain fatty acyl-CoA from the cytosol to the mitochondrial matrix for ß-oxidation. Recent progress in the expression of CPTI and CPTII cDNA clones in Pichia pastoris, a yeast with no endogenous CPT activity, has greatly facilitated the characterization of these important enzymes in fatty acid oxidation. It is now well established that yeast-expressed CPTI is a catalytically active, malonyl CoA-sensitive, distinct enzyme that is reversibly inactivated by detergents. CPTII is a catalytically active, malonyl CoA-insensitive, distinct enzyme that is detergent stable. Reconstitution studies with yeast-expressed CPTI have established for the first time that detergent inactivation of CPTI is reversible, suggesting that CPTI is active only in a membrane environment. By constructing a series of deletion mutants of the N-terminus of liver CPTI, we have mapped the residues essential for malonyl CoA inhibition and binding to the conserved first six N-terminal amino acid residues. Mutation of glutamic acid 3 to alanine abolished malonyl CoA inhibition and high affinity malonyl CoA binding, but not catalytic activity, whereas mutation of histidine 5 to alanine caused partial loss in malonyl CoA inhibition. Our mutagenesis studies demonstrate that glutamic acid 3 and histidine 5 are necessary for malonyl CoA inhibition and binding to liver CPTI, but not catalytic activity.

KEY WORDS: • carnitine palmitoyltransferases • Pichia pastoris expression • malonyl CoA inhibition • binding residues

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