Malonyl coenzyme A (CoA)-acyl carrier protein (ACP) transacylase (MCAT) is an essential enzyme in fatty acid and mycolic acid biosynthesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. fabd2 is a novel gene coding MCAT in M. tuberculosis besides another known fabd. In our study, fabd2 was inserted into a bacterial expression vector pET28a resulting in a 6x Histidine-tag fabd2 fusion gene construction. The protein was purified by nickel affinity chromatography and the characterizations of FabD2 have been investigated. The molecular weight of FabD2 was estimated to be 26 kDa by MALDI-TOF. Consistent with the biosynthesis specialty of reported MCATs, FabD2 resulted in a typical activity of bacterial MCATs, which catalyzes the transacylation of malonate from malonyl-CoA to activated holo-ACP. Some physical and chemical differences between FabD2 and FabD also have been found. FabD2 shows dissimilarity with FabD in secondary structure in different pH buffer and MCAT genes RT-PCR results reveal different transcript condition with each other. Furthermore, FabD2 shows low similarity in protein sequence when alignment with other MCATs.
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