The
6-hydroxydopa quinone-containing active site
peptide from bovine serum
amine oxidase has been found to be highly homologous to a segment of a cloned human kidney
amiloride-
binding protein (Barbry, P., Champe, M., Chassande, O., Munemitsu, S., Champigny, G., Lingueglia, E., Maes, P., Frelin, C.,
Tartar, A., Ullrich, A., and Lazdunski, M. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 7347-7351). Additionally, a second 38-residue tryptic
peptide (
peptide XI) isolated from bovine serum
amine oxidase shows 82% identity with a portion near the carboxyl terminus of the human kidney
amiloride-
binding protein. When an extended active site
peptide was isolated from porcine kidney
diamine oxidase (Janes, S. M., Palcic, M. M., Scaman, C. H., Smith, A. J., Brown, D. E., Dooley, D. M., Mure, M., and Klinman, J. P. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 12147-12154), it was found to be fully contained in the human kidney
amiloride-
binding protein. Examination of
amiloride binding to bovine serum
amine oxidase and porcine kidney
diamine oxidase reveals dissociation constants of 196 and 9.1 microM, respectively. Taken together, these findings indicate that the
cDNA isolated for human kidney
amiloride-
binding protein encodes a human kidney
diamine oxidase. Two
oligonucleotides, based on the tryptic
peptide XI and active-site
peptide of bovine serum
amine oxidase, were used to amplify a portion of
cDNA from a commercial bovine liver cDNA library through the use of the polymerase chain reaction. A full-length clone (2.7 kilobase pairs) for bovine serum
amine oxidase was subsequently obtained through screening of the same cDNA library with the amplified 0.7-kilobase pair
cDNA. These studies provide the first primary sequences for a mammalian cellular and serum
copper amine oxidase. Computer alignment of
amine oxidase cDNA-derived
protein sequences reveals three conserved
histidine residues, which are likely to be
ligands to
copper.