A scalable lysyl hydroxylase 2 expression system and luciferase-based enzymatic activity assay

  • Hou Fu Guo
  • , Eun Jeong Cho
  • , Ashwini K. Devkota
  • , Yulong Chen
  • , William Russell
  • , George N. Phillips
  • , Mitsuo Yamauchi
  • , Kevin N. Dalby
  • , Jonathan M. Kurie

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Abstract

Hydroxylysine aldehyde-derived collagen cross-links (HLCCs) accumulate in fibrotic tissues and certain types of cancer and are thought to drive the progression of these diseases. HLCC formation is initiated by lysyl hydroxylase 2 (LH2), an Fe(II) and α-ketoglutarate (αKG)-dependent oxygenase that hydroxylates telopeptidyl lysine residues on collagen. Development of LH2 antagonists for the treatment of these diseases will require a reliable source of recombinant LH2 protein and a non-radioactive LH2 enzymatic activity assay that is amenable to high throughput screens of small molecule libraries. However, LH2 protein generated using E coli– or insect-based expression systems is either insoluble or enzymatically unstable, and the LH2 enzymatic activity assays that are currently available measure radioactive CO2 released from 14C-labeled αKG during its conversion to succinate. To address these deficiencies, we have developed a scalable process to purify human LH2 protein from Chinese hamster ovary cell-derived conditioned media samples and a luciferase-based assay that quantifies LH2-dependent conversion of αKG to succinate. These methodologies may be applicable to other Fe(II) and αKG-dependent oxygenase systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-51
Number of pages7
JournalArchives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Volume618
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 15 2017

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© 2017 Elsevier Inc.

Funding

This work was supported by NIH grants P50-CA70907-15 (JMK) and R01 CA105155 (JMK, MY), the Welch Foundation (F-1390) (KND), and CPRIT grants RP160652 (JMK, GNP), RP160657 (KND), and RP110532-P1 (KND).

FundersFunder number
National Institutes of Health (NIH)P50-CA70907-15, R01 CA105155
National Childhood Cancer Registry – National Cancer InstituteP50CA070907
Welch FoundationF-1390
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of TexasRP160657, RP110532-P1, RP160652

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    Keywords

    • Chinese hamster ovary cell
    • Collagen
    • High-throughput assay
    • Lysyl hydroxylase 2
    • Oxygenase
    • Succinate detection

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biophysics
    • Biochemistry
    • Molecular Biology

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