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Lai K, Stolowich NJ, Wild JR. Characterization of P-S bond hydrolysis in organophosphorothioate pesticides by organophosphorus hydrolase. Arch Biochem Biophys 1995; 318:59-64. [PMID: 7726573 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1995.1204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The extensive use of organophosphorothioate insecticides in agriculture has resulted in the risk of environmental contamination with a variety of broadly based neurotoxins that inhibit the acetylcholinesterases of many different animal species. Organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH, EC 3.1.8.1) is a broad-spectrum phosphotriesterase that is capable of detoxifying a variety of organophosphorus neurotoxins by hydrolyzing various phosphorus-ester bonds (P-O, P-F, P-CN, and P-S) between the phosphorus center and an electrophilic leaving group. OPH is capable of hydrolyzing the P-X bond of various organophosphorus compounds at quite different catalytic rates: P-O bonds (kcat = 67-5000 s-1), P-F bonds (kcat = 0.01-500 s-1), and P-S bonds (kcat = 0.0067 to 167 s-1). P-S bond cleavage was readily demonstrated and characterized in these studies by quantifying the released free thiol groups using 5,5'-dithio-bis-2-nitrobenzoic acid or by monitoring an upfield shift of approximately 31 ppm by 31P NMR. A decrease in the toxicity of hydrolyzed products was demonstrated by directly quantifying the loss of inhibition of acetylcholinesterase activity. Phosphorothiolate esters, such as demeton-S, provided noncompetitive inhibition for paraoxon (a P-O triester) hydrolysis, suggesting that the binding of these two different classes of substrates was not identical.
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Roessner CA, Spencer JB, Ozaki S, Min C, Atshaves BP, Nayar P, Anousis N, Stolowich NJ, Holderman MT, Scott AI. Overexpression in Escherichia coli of 12 vitamin B12 biosynthetic enzymes. Protein Expr Purif 1995; 6:155-63. [PMID: 7606163 DOI: 10.1006/prep.1995.1019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The first 12 enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin B12 from its five-carbon precursor, aminolevulinic acid, have been overexpressed in recombinant strains of Escherichia coli. The activity of each enzyme has been demonstrated by the biosynthesis of hydrogenobyrinic acid from aminolevulinic acid.
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Sattler I, Roessner CA, Stolowich NJ, Hardin SH, Harris-Haller LW, Yokubaitis NT, Murooka Y, Hashimoto Y, Scott AI. Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase cobA gene of Propionibacterium freudenreichii (shermanii). J Bacteriol 1995; 177:1564-9. [PMID: 7883713 PMCID: PMC176773 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.6.1564-1569.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We cloned, sequenced, and overexpressed cobA, the gene encoding uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase in Propionibacterium freudenreichii, and examined the catalytic properties of the enzyme. The methyltransferase is similar in mass (27 kDa) and homologous to the one isolated from Pseudomonas denitrificans. In contrast to the much larger isoenzyme encoded by the cysG gene of Escherichia coli (52 kDa), the P. freudenreichii enzyme does not contain the additional 22-kDa peptide moiety at its N-terminal end bearing the oxidase-ferrochelatase activity responsible for the conversion of dihydrosirohydrochlorin (precorrin-2) to siroheme. Since it does not contain this moiety, it is not a likely candidate for synthesis of a cobalt-containing early intermediate that has been proposed for the vitamin B12 biosynthetic pathway in P. freudenreichii. Uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase of P. freudenreichii not only catalyzes the addition of two methyl groups to uroporphyrinogen III to afford the early vitamin B12 intermediate, precorrin-2, but also has an overmethylation property that catalyzes the synthesis of several tri- and tetra-methylated compounds that are not part of the vitamin B12 pathway. The enzyme catalyzes the addition of three methyl groups to uroporphyrinogen I to form trimethylpyrrocorphin, the intermediate necessary for biosynthesis of the natural products, factors S1 and S3, previously isolated from this organism. A second gene found upstream from the cobA gene encodes a protein homologous to CbiO of Salmonella typhimurium, a membrane-bound, ATP-dependent transport protein thought to be part of the cobalt transport system involved in vitamin B12 synthesis. These two genes do not appear to constitute part of an extensive cobalamin operon.
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Roessner CA, Spencer JB, Stolowich NJ, Wang J, Nayar GP, Santander PJ, Pichon C, Min C, Holderman MT, Scott AI. Genetically engineered synthesis of precorrin-6x and the complete corrinoid, hydrogenobyrinic acid, an advanced precursor of vitamin B12. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 1994; 1:119-24. [PMID: 9383380 DOI: 10.1016/1074-5521(94)90050-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Genetically engineered synthesis, in which the gene products, cofactors, and substrates of a complete pathway are combined in vitro in a single flask to give the target, can be a viable alternative to conventional chemical construction of molecules of complex structure and stereochemistry. We chose to attempt to synthesize the metal-free corrinoid hydrogenobyrinic acid, an advanced precursor of vitamin B12. RESULTS Cloning and overexpression of the genes necessary for the S-adenosyl methionine dependent conversion of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) to precorrin-3 and those required for the synthesis of hydrogenobyrinic acid from precorrin-3 completed the repertoire of the 12 biosynthetic enzymes involved in corrin synthesis. Using these enzymes and the necessary cofactors, the multi-enzyme synthesis of hydrogenobyrinic acid from ALA can be achieved in 20% overall yield in a single reaction vessel, corresponding to an average of at least 90% conversion for each of the 17 steps involved. CONCLUSIONS By replacing the cell wall with glass, and by mixing the soluble biosynthetic enzymes and necessary cofactors, the major segment of the physiological synthesis of vitamin B12 has been accomplished. Since only those enzymes necessary for the synthesis of hydrogenobyrinic acid from ALA are supplied, none of the intermediates is deflected from the direct pathway. This results in an efficiency which in fact surpasses that of nature.
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Pichon C, Atshaves BP, Danso-Danquah R, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. 19-Bromo-1-hydroxymethylbilane, a novel inhibitor of uro'gen III synthase. Bioorg Med Chem 1994; 2:267-77. [PMID: 7922138 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(00)82170-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A novel hydroxymethylbilane analog, 19-Br-HMB (11), has been synthesized. Its activity with the enzyme Uro'gen III synthase shows competitive inhibition.
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Pichon C, Atshaves BP, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. Evidence for an intermediate in the enzymatic formation of uroporphyrinogen III. Bioorg Med Chem 1994; 2:153-68. [PMID: 7922129 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(00)82011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Evidence for an azafulvene intermediate in the enzymatic formation of Uroporphyrinogen III has been obtained. Using conditions to slow down the enzyme activity (high pH, low temperature), the transient species was trapped with ammonium ions as aminomethylbilane and with sodium borohydride as methylbilane, and observed by 13C-NMR.
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Spencer JB, Stolowich NJ, Roessner CA, Scott AI. The Escherichia coli cysG gene encodes the multifunctional protein, siroheme synthase. FEBS Lett 1993; 335:57-60. [PMID: 8243665 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80438-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Previously, the E. coli cysG gene product had been shown to sequentially methylate uro'gen III to produce precorrin-2, hence it was given the trivial name uro'gen III methylase. We now report that in addition to methylase activity, the CysG protein catalyses both the NAD+ dependent oxidation of precorrin-2 to sirohydrochlorin, but also the insertion of iron into this oxidized intermediate, thereby producing siroheme. Thus CysG is a multifunctional protein solely responsible for siroheme synthesis from uro'gen III in E. coli, and accordingly is renamed siroheme synthase.
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Scott AI, Roessner CA, Stolowich NJ, Spencer JB, Min C, Ozaki SI. Biosynthesis of vitamin B12. Discovery of the enzymes for oxidative ring contraction and insertion of the fourth methyl group. FEBS Lett 1993; 331:105-8. [PMID: 8405386 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80306-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In the vitamin B12 biosynthetic pathway the enzymes responsible for the conversion of precorrin-3 to precorrin-4 have been identified as the gene products of cobG and cobJ from Pseudomonas denitrificans. CobG catalyzes the oxidation of precorrin-3 to precorrin-3x (a hydroxy lactone) whereas CobJ is a SAM-dependent C-17 methyl transferase and is necessary for ring contraction. A mechanism for ring contraction is proposed.
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Roessner CA, Warren MJ, Santander PJ, Atshaves BP, Ozaki S, Stolowich NJ, Iida K, Scott AI. Expression of 9 Salmonella typhimurium enzymes for cobinamide synthesis. Identification of the 11-methyl and 20-methyl transferases of corrin biosynthesis. FEBS Lett 1992; 301:73-8. [PMID: 1451790 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80213-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Nine of the cbi genes from the 17.5 kb cob operon of Salmonella typhimurium previously shown by genetic studies to be involved in the biosynthesis of cobinamide from precorrin-2, have been subcloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Seven of the gene products were found in the soluble fraction of cell lysates and have been purified. The gene products corresponding to cbi E, F, H and L were shown by SAM binding and by homology with other SAM-binding proteins to be candidates for the methyltransferases of vitamin B12 biosynthesis. The enzymatic functions of the gene products of cbiL and cbiF are associated with C-methylation at C-20 of precorrin-2 and C-11 of precorrin-3.
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Warren MJ, Roessner CA, Ozaki S, Stolowich NJ, Santander PJ, Scott AI. Enzymatic synthesis and structure of precorrin-3, a trimethyldipyrrocorphin intermediate in vitamin B12 biosynthesis. Biochemistry 1992; 31:603-9. [PMID: 1731915 DOI: 10.1021/bi00117a043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The trimethylated intermediate of vitamin B12 (corrin) biosynthesis, precorrin-3, was produced from various 13C-enriched isotopomers of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), using a multiple-enzyme system containing ALA dehydratase, porphobilinogen deaminase, uro'gen III synthetase, and the S-adenosyl-L-methionine-(SAM)-dependent uro'gen III methyltransferase (M-1) and precorrin-2 methyltransferase (M-2) in the presence of [13C]SAM. Structural analysis of the resulting product, precorrin-3, reveals a close similarity to precorrin-2 but with several subtle differences in the conjugated array of C = C and C = N bonds which reflect the presence of the new C-methyl group at C20 and its influence on the electronic distribution in the dipyrrocorphin chromophore. The implications of this structure for corrin biosynthesis are discussed.
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Chiou GC, Stolowich NJ, Zheng YQ, Shen ZF, Zhu M, Min ZD. Effects of some natural products on sugar cataract studied with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY 1992; 8:115-20. [PMID: 1506753 DOI: 10.1089/jop.1992.8.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Four commercial anticataract drugs and five flavonoids isolated from Chinese herbs were studied on their effects to inhibit sugar cataract formation in vitro using 13C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Pa-Wei-Di-Huan-Wan (PWDHW) and Zhang-Yan-Ming (ZYM) were effective in inhibiting sorbitol formation, whereas Bai-Nei-Ting (BNT) and Pearl Min-Mu-Ye (Pearl MMY) were ineffective in inhibiting sorbitol formation. Among five flavonoids tested, four were moderately effective in inhibiting sorbitol formation, and one was totally ineffective up to 1 x 10(-4)M used.
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Gonzalez MD, Williams HJ, Santander PJ, Ozaki SI, Stolowich NJ, Scott A. 1H and 13C NMR Studies of Sirohydrochlorin (Factor II) and its 20-Methyl Derivative (Factor III). Tetrahedron 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(01)89844-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ortiz C, Tellier C, Williams H, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. Diastereotopic covalent binding of the natural inhibitor leupeptin to trypsin: detection of two interconverting hemiacetals by solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Biochemistry 1991; 30:10026-34. [PMID: 1911768 DOI: 10.1021/bi00105a030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The naturally occurring peptidyl protease inhibitor leupeptin (N-acetyl-L-leucyl-L-leucyl-L-argininal) has been prepared labeled with 13C at the argininal carbonyl. 13C chemical shift data for the trypsin-leupeptin inhibitor complex in the pH range 3.0-7.6 reveal the presence of two pH-dependent covalent complexes, suggestive of two interconverting diastereomers at the new asymmetric tetrahedral center created by covalent addition of Ser195 to either side of the 13C-enriched aldehyde of the inhibitor. At pH 7 two signals are observable at delta 98.8 and delta 97.2 (84:16 ratio), while at pH 3.0 the latter signal predominates. In the selective proton 13C-edited NOE spectrum of the major diastereomer at pH 7.4, a strong NOE is observed between the hemiacetal proton of the inhibitor and the C2 proton of His57 of the enzyme, thus defining the stereochemistry of the high pH complex to the S configuration in which the hemiacetal oxygen resides in the oxyanion hole. pH titration studies further indicate that the 13C chemical shift of the S diastereomer follows a titration curve with a pKa of 4.69, the magnitude of which is consistent with direct titration of the hemiacetal oxygen. Similar pH-dependent chemical shifts were obtained by using CPMAS 13C NMR, providing evidence for the existence of the same diastereomeric equilibrium in the solid state.
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Oh-hama T, Santander PJ, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. Bacteriochlorophyll c formation via the C5 pathway of 5-aminolevulinic acid synthesis in Chloroflexus aurantiacus. FEBS Lett 1991; 281:173-6. [PMID: 2015889 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)80386-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Biosynthesis of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) in Chloroflexus aurantiacus, a thermophilic bacterium forming bacteriochlorophyll c, is shown to proceed via the C5 pathway by demonstrating (1) the specific labeling of its chlorin ring with [1 - 13C]glutamate and (2) the enzyme activity to produce ALA from glutamate in a cell-free extract. From the phylogenetic distribution it is suggested that ALA synthetase distributed in some aerobic eubacteria could be monophyletic in origin.
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Higaki T, Tanase S, Nagashima F, Morino Y, Scott AI, Williams HJ, Stolowich NJ. Porcine cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase reconstituted with [4'-13C]pyridoxal phosphate. pH- and ligand-induced changes of the coenzyme observed by 13C NMR spectroscopy. Biochemistry 1991; 30:2519-26. [PMID: 2001379 DOI: 10.1021/bi00223a032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Apoenzyme samples of aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) purified from the cytosolic fraction of pig heart were reconstituted with [4'-13C]pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (pyridoxal-P). The 13C NMR spectra of AspAT samples thus generated established the chemical shift of 165.3 ppm for C4' of the coenzyme bound as an internal aldimine with lysine 258 of the enzyme at pH 5. In the absence of ligands the chemical shift of C4' was shown to be pH dependent, shifting 5 ppm upfield to a constant value of 160.2 ppm above pH 8, the resulting pKa of 6.3 in agreement with spectrophotometric titrations. The addition of the competitive inhibitor succinate to the internal aldimine raises the pKa of the imine to 7.8, consistent with the theory of charge neutralization in the active site. In the presence of saturating concentrations of 2-methylaspartic acid the C4' signal of the coenzyme was shown to be invariant with pH and located at 162.7 ppm, midway between the observed chemical shifts of the protonated and unprotonated forms of the internal aldimine. The intermediate chemical shift of the external aldimine complex is thought to reflect the observation of an equilibrium mixture composed of roughly equal populations of the protonated ketoenamine and a dipolar anion species, corresponding to their respective spectral bands at 430 and 360-370 nm. Conversion to the pyridoxamine form was accomplished via reaction of the internal aldimine with L-cysteinesulfinate or by reduction with sodium borohydride, and the resulting C4' chemical shifts were identified by difference spectroscopy. Finally, the line widths of the C4' resonance under the various conditions were measured and qualitatively compared. The results are discussed in terms of the current mechanism and molecular models of the active site of AspAT.
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Aplin RT, Baldwin JE, Pichon C, Roessner CA, Ian Scott A, Schofield CJ, Stolowich NJ, Warren MJ. Observation of enzyme bound intermediates in the biosynthesis of preuroporphyrinogen by PBG deaminase. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(01)80453-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Oh-hama T, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. Characterization of the process of 5-aminolevulinic acid formation from glutamate via the C5 pathway in Clostridium thermoaceticum. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 23:1417-20. [PMID: 1761150 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(91)90284-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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1. In vitro formation of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) from glutamate required two enzyme fractions, separable on Blue Sepharose affinity chromatography, and a tRNA fraction, which can be replaced by Escherichia coli tRNA(Glu) in the reconstituted assay. 2. Gabaculine was shown to inhibit ALA formation in the complete assay as well as in a defined system consisting of only glutamate-1-semialdehyde and the enzyme fraction not retained on Blue Sepharose. 3. The results indicate that the enzyme system supporting ALA formation in Clostridium thermoaceticum is very similar to the tRNA(Glu)-dependent C5 pathway in plant plastids.
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Warren MJ, Gonzalez MD, Williams HJ, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. Uroporphyrinogen III methylase catalyzes the enzymic synthesis of sirohydrochlorins II and IV by a clockwise mechanism [Erratum to document cited in CA113(3):20050w]. J Am Chem Soc 1990. [DOI: 10.1021/ja00177a078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Warren MJ, Stolowich NJ, Santander PJ, Roessner CA, Sowa BA, Scott AI. Enzymatic synthesis of dihydrosirohydrochlorin (precorrin-2) and of a novel pyrrocorphin by uroporphyrinogen III methylase. FEBS Lett 1990; 261:76-80. [PMID: 2407558 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80640-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Uroporphyrinogen III methylase was purified from a recombinant hemB-strain of E. coli harbouring a plasmid containing the cysG gene. N-terminal analysis of this purified protein gave an amino acid sequence corresponding to that predicted from the genetic code. From the u.v./visible spectrum of the reaction catalysed by this SAM dependent methylase it was possible to observe the sequential appearance of the chromophores of a dipyrrocorphin and subsequently of a pyrrocorphin. Confirmation of this transformation was obtained from 13C-NMR studies when it was demonstrated, for the first time directly, that uroporphyrinogen is initially converted into dihydrosirohydrochlorin (precorrin-2) and then, by further methylation, into a novel trimethylpyrrocorphin.
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Scott AI, Warren MJ, Roessner CA, Stolowich NJ, Santander PJ. Development of an ‘overmethylation’ strategy for corrin synthesis. Multi-enzyme preparation of pyrrocorphins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1039/c39900000593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Scott AI, Clemens KR, Stolowich NJ, Santander PJ, Gonzalez MD, Roessner CA. Reconstitution of apo-porphobilinogen deaminase: structural changes induced by cofactor binding. FEBS Lett 1989; 242:319-24. [PMID: 2644132 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)80493-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Expression of porphobilinogen deaminase in a hemB- strain of E. coli has permitted the isolation of the apoenzyme, i.e. deaminase lacking the porphobilinogen-derived dipyrromethane cofactor. Incubation of purified apoenzyme with porphobilinogen resulted in reconstitution of the covalently attached dipyrromethane cofactor, indicating no additional cofactors or enzymes are required for biosynthesis of holoenzyme. Electrophoretic and 13C-NMR spectroscopic analyses demonstrate that the apoenzyme exists in a conformationally unstable form which is converted to a highly stable tertiary structure on covalent attachment of the dipyrromethane cofactor.
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Scott AI, Williams HJ, Stolowich NJ, Karuso P, Gonzalez MD, Blanche F, Thibaut D, Müller G, Savvidis E, Hlineney K. The structure of sirohydrochlorin I, a dimethylisobacteriochlorin derived from uroporphyrinogen I. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1039/c39890000522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Scott AI, Roessner CA, Stolowich NJ, Karuso P, Williams HJ, Grant SK, Gonzalez MD, Hoshino T. Site-directed mutagenesis and high-resolution NMR spectroscopy of the active site of porphobilinogen deaminase. Biochemistry 1988; 27:7984-90. [PMID: 3069124 DOI: 10.1021/bi00421a002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The active site of porphobilinogen (PBG)1 deaminase (EC 4.3.1.8) from Escherichia coli has been found to contain an unusual dipyrromethane derived from four molecules of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) covalently linked to Cys-224, one of the two cysteine residues conserved in E. coli and human deaminase. By use of a hemA- strain of E. coli the enzyme was enriched from [5-13C]ALA and examined by 1H-detected multiple quantum coherence spectroscopy, which revealed all of the salient features of a dipyrromethane composed of two PBG units linked head to tail and terminating in a CH2-S bond to a cysteine residue. Site-specific mutagenesis of Cys-99 and Cys-242, respectively, has shown that substitution of Ser for Cys-99 does not affect the enzymatic activity, whereas substitution of Ser for Cys-242 removes essentially all of the catalytic activity as measured by the conversion of the substrate PBG to uro'gen I. The NMR spectrum of the covalent complex of deaminase with the suicide inhibitor 2-bromo-[2,11-13C2]PBG reveals that the aninomethyl terminus of the inhibitor reacts with the enzyme's cofactor at the alpha-free pyrrole. NMR spectroscopy of the ES2 complex confirmed a PBG-derived head-to-tail dipyrromethane attached to the alpha-free pyrrole position of the enzyme. A mechanistic rationale for deaminase is presented.
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Jordan PM, Warren MJ, Williams HJ, Stolowich NJ, Roessner CA, Grant SK, Scott AI. Identification of a cysteine residue as the binding site for the dipyrromethane cofactor at the active site of Escherichia coli porphobilinogen deaminase. FEBS Lett 1988; 235:189-93. [PMID: 3042456 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)81260-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The dipyrromethane cofactor of Escherichia coli porphobilinogen deaminase was specifically labelled with 13C by growth of the bacteria in the presence of 5-amino[5-13C]levulinic acid. Using 13C-NMR spectroscopy, the structure of the cofactor was confirmed as a dipyrromethane made up of two linked pyrrole rings each derived from porphobilinogen. The chemical shift data indicate that one of the pyrrole rings of the cofactor is covalently linked to the deaminase enzyme through a cysteine residue. Evidence from protein chemistry studies suggest that cysteine-242 is the covalent binding site for the cofactor.
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Oh-hama T, Stolowich NJ, Scott AI. 5-Aminolevulinic acid formation from glutamate via the C5 pathway in Clostridium thermoaceticum. FEBS Lett 1988; 228:89-93. [PMID: 3342879 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)80591-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A cell-free extract of the anaerobic eubacterium, Clostridium thermoaceticum, catalyzes the synthesis of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) from glutamate via the C5 pathway. The enzyme reaction resembles that of higher plants and algae in cofactor requirements and sensitivity to ribonuclease. From the phylogenetic distribution it is proposed that the C5 pathway evolved earlier than the ALA synthase pathway.
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