(Below N is a link to NCBI taxonomic web page and E link to ESTHER at designed phylum.) > cellular organisms: NE > Eukaryota: NE > Opisthokonta: NE > Metazoa: NE > Eumetazoa: NE > Bilateria: NE > Deuterostomia: NE > Chordata: NE > Craniata: NE > Vertebrata: NE > Gnathostomata: NE > Teleostomi: NE > Euteleostomi: NE > Sarcopterygii: NE > Dipnotetrapodomorpha: NE > Tetrapoda: NE > Amniota: NE > Mammalia: NE > Theria: NE > Eutheria: NE > Boreoeutheria: NE > Euarchontoglires: NE > Glires: NE > Rodentia: NE > Myomorpha: NE > Muroidea: NE > Muridae: NE > Murinae: NE > Mus [genus]: NE > Mus [subgenus]: NE > Mus musculus: NE
LegendThis sequence has been compared to family alignement (MSA) red => minority aminoacid blue => majority aminoacid color intensity => conservation rate title => sequence position(MSA position)aminoacid rate Catalytic site Catalytic site in the MSA MPLYKLLGWLNAVACGVLLLVLHVQGQDSASPIRNTHTGQVRGSLVHVKD TDIAVHTFLGIPFAKPPVGPLRFAPPEAPEPWSGVRDGTSHPNMCLQNDN LMGSEDLKMMNLILPPISMSEDCLYLNIYVPAHAHEGSNLPVMVWIHGGA LTVGMASMYDGSMLAATEDVVVVAIQYRLGVLGFFSTGDQHAKGNWGYLD QVAALRWVQQNIVHFGGNPDRVTIFGESAGGTSVSSHVVSPMSQGLFHGA IMESGVAVLPDLISSSSEMVHRIVANLSGCAAVNSETLMCCLRGKNEAEM LAINKVFKIIPGVVDGEFLPKHPQELMASKDFHPVPSIIGINNDEYGWIL PTIMDPAQKIEEITRKTLPAVLKSTALKMMLPPECGDLLMEEYMGDTEDP ETLQAQFREMKGDFMFVIPALQVAHFQRSHAPVYFYEFQHRPSFFKDFRP PYVKADHGDEIFLVFGYQFGNIKLPYTEEEEQLSRRIMKYWANFARHGNP NSEGLPYWPVMDHDEQYLQLDIQPSVGRALKARRLQFWTKTLPQKIQELK GSQERHKEL
References
Title: Identification, expression, and purification of a pyrethroid-hydrolyzing carboxylesterase from mouse liver microsomes Stok JE, Huang H, Jones PD, Wheelock CE, Morisseau C, Hammock BD Ref: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279:29863, 2004 : PubMed
Carboxylesterases are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of a wide range of ester-containing endogenous and xenobiotic compounds. Although the use of pyrethroids is increasing, the specific enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of these insecticides have yet to be identified. A pyrethroid-hydrolyzing enzyme was partially purified from mouse liver microsomes using a fluorescent reporter similar in structure to cypermethrin (Shan, G., and Hammock, B. D. (2001) Anal. Biochem. 299, 54-62 and Wheelock, C. E., Wheelock, A. M., Zhang, R., Stok, J. E., Morisseau, C., Le Valley, S. E., Green, C. E., and Hammock, B. D. (2003) Anal. Biochem. 315, 208-222) and subsequently identified as a carboxylesterase (NCBI accession number BAC36707). The expressed sequence tag was then cloned, expressed in baculovirus, and purified to homogeneity. Kinetic constants for a large number of both type I and type II pyrethroid or pyrethroid-like substrates were determined. This esterase possesses similar kinetic constants for cypermethrin and its fluorescent-surrogate (k(cat) = 0.12 +/- 0.03 versus 0.11 +/- 0.01 s(-1)). Compared with their cis- counterparts, trans-permethrin and cypermethrin were hydrolyzed 22- and 4-fold faster, respectively. Of the four fenvalerate isomers the (2R)(alphaR)-isomer was hydrolyzed at least 1 order of magnitude faster than any other isomer. However, it is unlikely that this enzyme accounts for the total pyrethroid hydrolysis in the microsomes because both isoelectrofocusing and native PAGE indicate the presence of a second region of cypermethrin-metabolizing enzymes. A second carboxylesterase gene (NCBI accession number NM_133960), isolated during a cDNA mouse liver library screening, was also found to hydrolyze pyrethroids. Both these enzymes could be used as preliminary tools in establishing the relative toxicity of new pyrethroids.
Carboxylesterases hydrolyze many pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals and have broad substrate selectivity, requiring a suite of substrates to measure hydrolytic profiles. To develop new esterase substrates, a series of alpha-cyanoesters that yield fluorescent products upon hydrolysis was evaluated for use in carboxylesterase assays. The use of these substrates as surrogates for Type II pyrethroid hydrolysis was tested. The results suggest that these novel analogs are appropriate for the development of high-throughput assays for pyrethroid hydrolase activity. A set of human liver microsomes was then used to determine the ability of these substrates to report esterase activity across a small population. Results were compared against standard esterase substrates. A number of the esterase substrates showed correlations, demonstrating the broad substrate selectivity of these enzymes. However, for several of the substrates, no correlations in hydrolysis rates were observed, suggesting that multiple carboxylesterase isozymes are responsible for the array of substrate hydrolytic activity. These new substrates were then compared against alpha-naphthyl acetate and 4-methylumbelliferyl acetate for their ability to detect hydrolytic activity in both one- and two-dimensional native electrophoresis gels. Cyano-2-naphthylmethyl butanoate was found to visualize more activity than either commercial substrate. These applications demonstrate the utility of these new substrates as both general and pyrethroid-selective reporters of esterase activity.
Only a small proportion of the mouse genome is transcribed into mature messenger RNA transcripts. There is an international collaborative effort to identify all full-length mRNA transcripts from the mouse, and to ensure that each is represented in a physical collection of clones. Here we report the manual annotation of 60,770 full-length mouse complementary DNA sequences. These are clustered into 33,409 'transcriptional units', contributing 90.1% of a newly established mouse transcriptome database. Of these transcriptional units, 4,258 are new protein-coding and 11,665 are new non-coding messages, indicating that non-coding RNA is a major component of the transcriptome. 41% of all transcriptional units showed evidence of alternative splicing. In protein-coding transcripts, 79% of splice variations altered the protein product. Whole-transcriptome analyses resulted in the identification of 2,431 sense-antisense pairs. The present work, completely supported by physical clones, provides the most comprehensive survey of a mammalian transcriptome so far, and is a valuable resource for functional genomics.