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Journal of Dental Research, Vol 74, 1837-1844, Copyright © 1995 by International & American Associations for Dental Research Online Journals

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Functional comparison of native and recombinant human salivary histatin 1

J. Driscoll, Y. Zuo, T. Xu, J. R. Choi, R. F. Troxler and F. G. Oppenheim
Department of Periodontology and Oral Biology, School of Graduate Dentistry, Boston University Medical Center, MA 02118, USA.

Histatin 1 is a histidine-rich phosphoprotein present in human parotid saliva that possesses candidacidal activity and functions in mineralization by adsorbing to hydroxyapatite. The objective of the present study was to develop a system for recombinant production of histatin 1 and to examine the role of phosphorylation in the functional activities of this molecule. Native histatin 1 (containing a phosphoserine at residue 2) was purified from parotid saliva, whereas a bacterial expression system was used to produce a recombinant form of histatin 1 (re-Hst1) that lacked phosphorylated serine. Histatin 1 cDNA was inserted into the vector pGEX-3X, which expresses foreign genes as soluble fusion proteins attached to the carboxyl-terminus of glutathione S-transferase (GST). The GST/re-Hst1 fusion protein was isolated from cell lysates by affinity chromatography on glutathione (GSH)-Sepharose and digested with cyanogen bromide to separate re-Hst1 from the GST fusion partner. The digest was subjected to reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography on a C18 column, and re-Hst1 was eluted as a well-defined peak. The yield of re-Hst1 was 4 mg/L of bacterial culture. Amino-terminal sequencing and amino acid analysis confirmed the final product as re-Hst1. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) showed that native histatin 1 and re-Hst1 had the same apparent molecular weights, while cationic PAGE showed that re-Hst1 was more basic. Phosphate analysis indicated 1 mol phosphate/mol of native histatin 1, while re-Hst1 lacked any detectable phosphate. Re-Hst1 demonstrated candidacidal activity comparable to that of native histatin 1, but displayed substantially lower binding to hydroxyapatite. These results show that phosphorylation of histatin 1 at residue 2 contributes significantly to its ability to bind to hydroxyapatite.


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