Construction of a cDNA to the hamster CAD gene and its application toward defining the domain for aspartate transcarbamylase

cDNA complementary to hamster mRNA encoding the CAD protein, a multifunctional protein which carries the first three enzymes of pyrimidine biosynthesis, was constructed. The longest of these recombinants (pCAD142) covers 82% of the 7.9-kilobase mRNA. Portions of the cDNA were excised and replaced by a lac promoter-operator-initiation codon segment. The resultant plasmids were transfected into an Escherichia coli mutant defective in aspartate transcarbamylase, the second enzyme of the pathway. Complementation of the bacterial defect was observed with as little as 2.2 kilobases of cDNA sequence, corresponding to the 3' region of the mRNA. DNA sequencing in this region of the hamster cDNA reveals stretches which are highly homologous to the E. coli gene for the catalytic subunit of aspartate transcarbamylase; other stretches show no homology. The highly conserved regions probably reflect areas of protein structure critical to catalysis, while the nonconserved regions may reflect differences between the quaternary structures of E. coli and mammalian aspartate transcarbamylases, one such difference being that the bacterial enzyme in its native form is allosterically regulated and the mammalian enzyme is not.

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