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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Belviso S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5443537 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Belviso Stefania S Iuliano Rodolfo R Amato Rosario R Perrotti Nicola N Menniti Miranda M
PloS one 20170524 5
The human protein ASPG is an enzyme with a putative antitumor activity. We generated in bacteria and then purified a recombinant GST-ASPG protein that we used to characterize the biochemical and cytotoxic properties of the human ASPG. We demonstrated that ASPG possesses asparaginase and PAF acetylhydrolase activities that depend on a critical threonine residue at position 19. Consistently, ASPG but not its T19A mutant showed cytotoxic activity in K562, NALM-6 and MOLT-4 leukemic cell lines but n ...[more]