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ArticleJournal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry2021

High-yield synthesis and purification of recombinant human GABA transaminase for high-throughput screening assays.

Mingu Gordon Park, Ah-Reum Han, Su Yeon Kim, Tai Young Kim, Ho Min Kim, C Justin Lee

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Article in Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mingu Gordon ParkKU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-9287-5167
Ah-Reum HanCenter for Biomolecular and Cellular Structure, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2090-6769
Su Yeon KimCenter for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2658-5751
Tai Young KimCenter for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-8086-2476
Ho Min KimCenter for Biomolecular and Cellular Structure, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0029-3643
C Justin LeeKU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3555-0980
Institute for Basic Science · KRKorea University · KRKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many studies have focussed on modulating the activity of γ-aminobutyric acid transaminase (GABA-T), a GABA-catabolizing enzyme, for treating neurological diseases, such as epilepsy and drug addiction. Nevertheless, human GABA-T synthesis and purification have not been established. Thus, biochemical and drug design studies on GABA-T have been performed by using porcine GABA-T mostly and even bacterial GABA-T. Here we report an optimised protocol for overexpression of 6xHis-tagged human GABA-T in human cells followed by a two-step protein purification. Then, we established an optimised human GABA-T (0.5 U/mg) activity assay. Finally, we compared the difference between human and bacterial GABA-T in sensitivity to two irreversible GABA-T inhibitors, gabaculine and vigabatrin. Human GABA-T in homodimeric form showed 70-fold higher sensitivity to vigabatrin than bacterial GABA-T in multimeric form, indicating the importance of using human GABA-T. In summary, our newly developed protocol can be an important first step in developing more effective human GABA-T modulators.

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4-Aminobutyrate TransaminaseDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalEnzyme InhibitorsHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansRecombinant Proteins4-Aminobutyrate TransaminaseEnzyme InhibitorsRecombinant Proteins4-Aminobutyrate transaminasegabaculinehigh-throughput screening assaysisolation and purificationvigabatrin

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