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Håkansson AP, Smith AW. Enzymatic characterization of dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase from Streptococcus pneumoniae harboring its own substrate. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:29521-30. [PMID: 17690105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m703144200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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This study describes the enzymatic characterization of dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (DLDH) from Streptococcus pneumoniae and is the first characterization of a DLDH that carries its own substrate (a lipoic acid covalently attached to a lipoyl protein domain) within its own sequence. Full-length recombinant DLDH (rDLDH) was expressed and compared with enzyme expressed in the absence of lipoic acid (rDLDH(-LA)) or with enzyme lacking the first 112 amino acids constituting the lipoyl protein domain (rDLDH(-LIPOYL)). All three proteins contained 1 mol of FAD/mol of protein, had a higher activity for the conversion of NAD(+) to NADH than for the reaction in the reverse direction, and were unable to use NADP(+) and NADPH as substrates. The enzymes had similar substrate specificities, with the K(m) for NAD(+) being approximately 20 times higher than that for dihydrolipoamide. The kinetic pattern suggested a Ping Pong Bi Bi mechanism, which was verified by product inhibition studies. The protein expressed without lipoic acid was indistinguishable from the wild-type protein in all analyses. On the other hand, the protein without a lipoyl protein domain had a 2-3-fold higher turnover number, a lower K(I) for NADH, and a higher K(I) for lipoamide compared with the other two enzymes. The results suggest that the lipoyl protein domain (but not lipoic acid alone) plays a regulatory role in the enzymatic characteristics of pneumococcal DLDH.
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- Anders P Håkansson
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA.
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Hudder BN, Morales JG, Stubna A, Münck E, Hendrich MP, Lindahl PA. Electron paramagnetic resonance and Mössbauer spectroscopy of intact mitochondria from respiring Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Inorg Chem 2007; 12:1029-53. [PMID: 17665226 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-007-0275-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2007] [Accepted: 06/27/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Mitochondria from respiring cells were isolated under anaerobic conditions. Microscopic images were largely devoid of contaminants, and samples consumed O(2) in an NADH-dependent manner. Protein and metal concentrations of packed mitochondria were determined, as was the percentage of external void volume. Samples were similarly packed into electron paramagnetic resonance tubes, either in the as-isolated state or after exposure to various reagents. Analyses revealed two signals originating from species that could be removed by chelation, including rhombic Fe(3+) (g = 4.3) and aqueous Mn(2+) ions (g = 2.00 with Mn-based hyperfine). Three S = 5/2 signals from Fe(3+) hemes were observed, probably arising from cytochrome c peroxidase and the a(3):Cu(b) site of cytochrome c oxidase. Three Fe/S-based signals were observed, with averaged g values of 1.94, 1.90 and 2.01. These probably arise, respectively, from the [Fe(2)S(2)](+) cluster of succinate dehydrogenase, the [Fe(2)S(2)](+) cluster of the Rieske protein of cytochrome bc (1), and the [Fe(3)S(4)](+) cluster of aconitase, homoaconitase or succinate dehydrogenase. Also observed was a low-intensity isotropic g = 2.00 signal arising from organic-based radicals, and a broad signal with g (ave) = 2.02. Mössbauer spectra of intact mitochondria were dominated by signals from Fe(4)S(4) clusters (60-85% of Fe). The major feature in as-isolated samples, and in samples treated with ethylenebis(oxyethylenenitrilo)tetraacetic acid, dithionite or O(2), was a quadrupole doublet with DeltaE (Q) = 1.15 mm/s and delta = 0.45 mm/s, assigned to [Fe(4)S(4)](2+) clusters. Substantial high-spin non-heme Fe(2+) (up to 20%) and Fe(3+) (up to 15%) species were observed. The distribution of Fe was qualitatively similar to that suggested by the mitochondrial proteome.
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- Brandon N Hudder
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
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Fujiwara K, Hosaka H, Matsuda M, Okamura-Ikeda K, Motokawa Y, Suzuki M, Nakagawa A, Taniguchi H. Crystal structure of bovine lipoyltransferase in complex with lipoyl-AMP. J Mol Biol 2007; 371:222-34. [PMID: 17570395 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.05.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2007] [Revised: 05/21/2007] [Accepted: 05/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Lipoic acid is an essential cofactor of the alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complexes and the glycine cleavage system. It is covalently attached to a specific lysine residue of the subunit of the complexes. The bovine lipoyltransferase (bLT) catalyzes the lipoic acid attachment reaction using lipoyl-AMP as a substrate, forming a lipoylated protein and AMP. To gain insights into the reaction mechanism at the atomic level, we have determined the crystal structure of bLT at 2.10 A resolution. Unexpectedly, the purified recombinant bLT contains endogenous lipoyl-AMP. The structure of bLT consists of N-terminal and C-terminal domains, and lipoyl-AMP is bound to the active site in the N-terminal domain, adopting a U-shaped conformation. The lipoyl moiety is buried in the hydrophobic pocket, forming van der Waals interactions, and the AMP moiety forms numerous hydrogen bonds with bLT in another tunnel-like cavity. These interactions work together to expose the C10 atom of lipoyl-AMP to the surface of the bLT molecule. The carbonyl oxygen atom of lipoyl-AMP interacts with the invariant Lys135. The interaction might stimulate the positive charge of the C10 atom of lipoyl-AMP, and consequently facilitate the nucleophilic attack by the lysine residue of the lipoate-acceptor protein, accompanying the bond cleavage between the carbonyl group and the phosphate group. We discuss the structural differences between bLT and the lipoate-protein ligase A from Escherichia coli and Thermoplasma acidophilum. We further demonstrate that bLT in mitochondria also contains endogenous lipoylmononucleotide, being ready for the lipoylation of apoproteins.
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- Kazuko Fujiwara
- Institute for Enzyme Research, the University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
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Witkowski A, Joshi AK, Smith S. Coupling of the de novo fatty acid biosynthesis and lipoylation pathways in mammalian mitochondria. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:14178-85. [PMID: 17374604 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m701486200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The objective of this study was to identify the products and possible role of a putative pathway for de novo fatty acid synthesis in mammalian mitochondria. Bovine heart mitochondrial matrix preparations were prepared free from contamination by proteins from other subcellular components and, using a combination of radioisotopic labeling and mass spectrometry, were shown to contain all of the enzymes required for the extension of a 2-carbon precursor by malonyl moieties to saturated acyl-ACP thioesters containing up to 14 carbon atoms. A major product was octanoyl-ACP and, in the presence of the apo-H-protein of the glycine cleavage complex, the newly synthesized octanoyl moieties were translocated to the lipoylation site on the acceptor protein. These studies demonstrate that one of the functions of the de novo fatty acid biosynthetic pathway in mammalian mitochondria is to provide the octanoyl precursor required for the essential protein lipoylation pathway.
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- Andrzej Witkowski
- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA 94609, USA
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Allary M, Lu JZ, Zhu L, Prigge ST. Scavenging of the cofactor lipoate is essential for the survival of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Mol Microbiol 2007; 63:1331-44. [PMID: 17244193 PMCID: PMC2796473 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05592.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Lipoate is an essential cofactor for key enzymes of oxidative metabolism. Plasmodium falciparum possesses genes for lipoate biosynthesis and scavenging, but it is not known if these pathways are functional, nor what their relative contribution to the survival of intraerythrocytic parasites might be. We detected in parasite extracts four lipoylated proteins, one of which cross-reacted with antibodies against the E2 subunit of apicoplast-localized pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH). Two highly divergent parasite lipoate ligase A homologues (LplA), LipL1 (previously identified as LplA) and LipL2, restored lipoate scavenging in lipoylation-deficient bacteria, indicating that Plasmodium has functional lipoate-scavenging enzymes. Accordingly, intraerythrocytic parasites scavenged radiolabelled lipoate and incorporated it into three proteins likely to be mitochondrial. Scavenged lipoate was not attached to the PDH E2 subunit, implying that lipoate scavenging drives mitochondrial lipoylation, while apicoplast lipoylation relies on biosynthesis. The lipoate analogue 8-bromo-octanoate inhibited LipL1 activity and arrested P. falciparum in vitro growth, decreasing the incorporation of radiolabelled lipoate into parasite proteins. Furthermore, growth inhibition was prevented by lipoate addition in the medium. These results are consistent with 8-bromo-octanoate specifically interfering with lipoate scavenging. Our study suggests that lipoate metabolic pathways are not redundant, and that lipoate scavenging is critical for Plasmodium intraerythrocytic survival.
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- For correspondence. ; Tel. (+1) 443 287 4822; Fax (+1) 410 955 0105
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Marquet A, Bui BTS, Smith AG, Warren MJ. Iron–sulfur proteins as initiators of radical chemistry. Nat Prod Rep 2007; 24:1027-40. [PMID: 17898896 DOI: 10.1039/b703109m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Iron-sulfur proteins are very versatile biological entities for which many new functions are continuously being unravelled. This review focus on their role in the initiation of radical chemistry, with special emphasis on radical-SAM enzymes, since several members of the family catalyse key steps in the biosynthetic pathways of cofactors such as biotin, lipoate, thiamine, heme and the molybdenum cofactor. It will also include other examples to show the chemical logic which is emerging from the presently available data on this family of enzymes. The common step in all the (quite different) reactions described here is the monoelectronic reductive cleavage of SAM by a reduced [4Fe-4S](1+) cluster, producing methionine and a highly oxidising deoxyadenosyl radical, which can initiate chemically difficult reactions. This set of enzymes, which represent a means to perform oxidation under reductive conditions, are often present in anaerobic organisms. Some other, non-SAM-dependent, radical reactions obeying the same chemical logic are also covered.
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- Andrée Marquet
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7613, (Synthèse, Structure et Fonction de Molécules Bioactives), Paris, France.
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Many biotransformations of mid- to long chain fatty acyl derivatives are intrinsically interesting because of their high selectivity and novel mechanisms. These include one carbon transfer, hydration, isomerization, hydrogenation, ladderane and hydrocarbon formation, thiolation and various oxidative transformations such as epoxidation, hydroxylation and desaturation. In addition, hydroperoxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to a diverse array of bioactive compounds. The bioorganic aspects of selected reactions will be highlighted in this review; 210 references are cited.
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- Peter H Buist
- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
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Ruzicka FJ, Frey PA. Glutamate 2,3-aminomutase: a new member of the radical SAM superfamily of enzymes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2006; 1774:286-96. [PMID: 17222594 PMCID: PMC1945111 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2006.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2006] [Revised: 10/25/2006] [Accepted: 11/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A gene eam in Clostridium difficile encodes a protein that is homologous to lysine 2,3-aminomutase (LAM) in many other species but does not have the lysyl-binding residues Asp293 and Asp330 in LAM from Clostridium subterminale SB4. The C. difficile protein has Lys and Asn, respectively, in the sequence positions of the essential Asp residues in LAM. The C. difficile gene has been cloned into an E. coli expression vector, expressed in E. coli, and the protein purified and characterized. The recombinant protein displays excellent activity as a glutamate 2,3-aminomutase and no activity toward l-lysine. The PLP-, iron-, and sulfide-content and ultraviolet/visible spectrum are similar to LAM, and the enzyme requires SAM and dithionite as activators, as does LAM. Freeze-quench EPR experiments in the presence of l-glutamate reveal a glutamate-based free radical in the steady state of the reaction. A number of other bacterial genomes include genes encoding proteins homologous to the glutamate 2,3-aminomutase from C. difficile, and four of these proteins display the activity of glutamate 2,3-aminomutase when produced in E. coli. All of the homologous proteins have the cysteine motif CSMYCRHC corresponding to the motif CxxxCxxC characteristic of radical SAM enzymes. It is concluded that glutamate 2,3-aminomutase from C. difficile is a representative of a family found in a number of bacteria. It is likely that the beta-glutamate found in a few bacterial and archeal species as an osmolyte arises from the action of glutamate 2,3-aminomutase.
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- Frank J Ruzicka
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726, USA
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Palmieri L, Arrigoni R, Blanco E, Carrari F, Zanor MI, Studart-Guimaraes C, Fernie AR, Palmieri F. Molecular identification of an Arabidopsis S-adenosylmethionine transporter. Analysis of organ distribution, bacterial expression, reconstitution into liposomes, and functional characterization. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 142:855-65. [PMID: 16950860 PMCID: PMC1630753 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.086975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Despite much study of the role of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) in the methylation of DNA, RNA, and proteins, and as a cofactor for a wide range of biosynthetic processes, little is known concerning the intracellular transport of this essential metabolite. Screening of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) genome yielded two potential homologs of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and human SAM transporters, designated as SAMC1 and SAMC2, both of which belong to the mitochondrial carrier protein family. The SAMC1 gene is broadly expressed at the organ level, although only in specialized tissues of roots with high rates of cell division, and appears to be up-regulated in response to wounding stress, whereas the SAMC2 gene is very poorly expressed in all organs/tissues analyzed. Direct transport assays with the recombinant and reconstituted SAMC1 were utilized to demonstrate that this protein displays a very narrow substrate specificity confined to SAM and its closest analogs. Further experiments revealed that SAMC1 was able to function in uniport and exchange reactions and characterized the transporter as highly active, but sensitive to physiologically relevant concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine, S-adenosylcysteine, and adenosylornithine. Green fluorescent protein-based cell biological analysis demonstrated targeting of SAMC1 to mitochondria. Previous proteomic analyses identified this protein also in the chloroplast inner envelope. In keeping with these results, bioinformatics predicted dual localization for SAMC1. These findings suggest that the provision of cytosolically synthesized SAM to mitochondria and possibly also to plastids is mediated by SAMC1 according to the relative demands for this metabolite in the organelles.
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- Luigi Palmieri
- Department of Pharmaco-Biology, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
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Sulfur is a functionally important element of living matter. Incorporation into biomolecules occurs by two basic strategies. Sulfide is added to an activated acceptor in the biosynthesis of cysteine, from which methionine, coenzyme A and a number of biologically important thiols can be constructed. By contrast, the biosyntheses of iron sulfur clusters, cofactors such as thiamin, molybdopterin, biotin and lipoic acid, and the thio modification of tRNA require an activated sulfur species termed persulfidic sulfur (R-S-SH) instead of sulfide. Persulfidic sulfur is produced enzymatically with the IscS protein, the SufS protein and rhodanese being the most prominent biocatalysts. This review gives an overview of sulfur incorporation into biomolecules in prokaryotes with a special emphasis on the properties and the enzymatic generation of persulfidic sulfur as well as its use in biosynthetic pathways.
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- Dorothea Kessler
- Biochemiezentrum Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Buis JM, Cheek J, Kalliri E, Broderick JB. Characterization of an Active Spore Photoproduct Lyase, a DNA Repair Enzyme in the Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Superfamily. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:25994-6003. [PMID: 16829680 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m603931200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The major photoproduct in UV-irradiated Bacillus spore DNA is a unique thymine dimer called spore photoproduct (SP, 5-thyminyl-5,6-dihydrothymine). The enzyme spore photoproduct lyase (SP lyase) has been found to catalyze the repair of SP dimers to thymine monomers in a reaction that requires S-adenosylmethionine. We present here the first detailed characterization of catalytically active SP lyase, which has been anaerobically purified from overexpressing Escherichia coli. Anaerobically purified SP lyase is monomeric and is red-brown in color. The purified enzyme contains approximately 3.1 iron and 3.0 acid-labile S(2-) per protein and has a UV-visible spectrum characteristic of iron-sulfur proteins (410 nm (11.9 mM(-1) cm(-1)) and 450 nm (10.5 mM(-1) cm(-1))). The X-band EPR spectrum of the purified enzyme shows a nearly isotropic signal (g = 2.02) characteristic of a [3Fe-4S]1+ cluster; reduction of SP lyase with dithionite results in the appearance of a new EPR signal (g = 2.03, 1.93, and 1.89) with temperature dependence and g values consistent with its assignment to a [4Fe-4S]1+ cluster. The reduced purified enzyme is active in SP repair, with a specific activity of 0.33 micromol/min/mg. Only a catalytic amount of S-adenosylmethionine is required for DNA repair, and no irreversible cleavage of S-adenosylmethionine into methionine and 5'-deoxyadenosine is observed during the reaction. Label transfer from [5'-3H]S-adenosylmethionine to repaired thymine is observed, providing evidence to support a mechanism in which a 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical intermediate directly abstracts a hydrogen from SP C-6 to generate a substrate radical, and subsequent to radical-mediated beta-scission, a product thymine radical abstracts a hydrogen from 5'-deoxyadenosine to regenerate the 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical. Together, our results support a mechanism in which S-adenosylmethionine acts as a catalytic cofactor, not a substrate, in the DNA repair reaction.
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- Jeffrey M Buis
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
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- Perry A Frey
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
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Douglas P, Kriek M, Bryant P, Roach PL. Lipoyl Synthase Inserts Sulfur Atoms into an Octanoyl Substrate in a Stepwise Manner. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006; 45:5197-9. [PMID: 16835858 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200601910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Paul Douglas
- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Douglas P, Kriek M, Bryant P, Roach PL. Lipoyl Synthase Inserts Sulfur Atoms into an Octanoyl Substrate in a Stepwise Manner. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200601910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Crawford MJ, Thomsen-Zieger N, Ray M, Schachtner J, Roos DS, Seeber F. Toxoplasma gondii scavenges host-derived lipoic acid despite its de novo synthesis in the apicoplast. EMBO J 2006; 25:3214-22. [PMID: 16778769 PMCID: PMC1500979 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2006] [Accepted: 05/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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In contrast to other eukaryotes, which manufacture lipoic acid, an essential cofactor for several vital dehydrogenase complexes, within the mitochondrion, we show that the plastid (apicoplast) of the obligate intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is the only site of de novo lipoate synthesis. However, antibodies specific for protein-attached lipoate reveal the presence of lipoylated proteins in both, the apicoplast and the mitochondrion of T. gondii. Cultivation of T. gondii-infected cells in lipoate-deficient medium results in substantially reduced lipoylation of mitochondrial (but not apicoplast) proteins. Addition of exogenous lipoate to the medium can rescue this effect, showing that the parasite scavenges this cofactor from the host. Exposure of T. gondii to lipoate analogues in lipoate-deficient medium leads to growth inhibition, suggesting that T. gondii might be auxotrophic for this cofactor. Phylogenetic analyses reveal the secondary loss of the mitochondrial lipoate synthase gene after the acquisition of the plastid. Our studies thus reveal an unexpected metabolic deficiency in T. gondii and raise the question whether the close interaction of host mitochondria with the parasitophorous vacuole is connected to lipoate supply by the host.
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- Michael J Crawford
- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- FB Biologie, Parasitologie, Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany
- FB Biologie, Parasitologie, Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str., 35043 Marburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 6421 2823498; Fax: +49 6421 2821531; E-mail:
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Grillo MA, Colombatto S. S-adenosylmethionine and radical-based catalysis. Amino Acids 2006; 32:197-202. [PMID: 16738799 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-006-0342-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2005] [Accepted: 01/20/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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S-adenosylmethionine is the major methyl donor in all living organisms, but it is also involved in many other reactions occurring through radical-based catalysis. The structure and function of some of these enzymes, including those involved in the synthesis of the molybdenum cofactors, biotin, lipoate, will be discussed.
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- M A Grillo
- Dipartimento di Medicina e Oncologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Biochimica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
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Ma Q, Zhao X, Eddine AN, Geerlof A, Li X, Cronan JE, Kaufmann SHE, Wilmanns M. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis LipB enzyme functions as a cysteine/lysine dyad acyltransferase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:8662-7. [PMID: 16735476 PMCID: PMC1472244 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510436103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lipoic acid is essential for the activation of a number of protein complexes involved in key metabolic processes. Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis relies on a pathway in which the lipoate attachment group is synthesized from an endogenously produced octanoic acid moiety. In patients with multiple-drug-resistant M. tuberculosis, expression of one gene from this pathway, lipB, encoding for octanoyl-[acyl carrier protein]-protein acyltransferase is considerably up-regulated, thus making it a potential target in the search for novel antiinfectives against tuberculosis. Here we present the crystal structure of the M. tuberculosis LipB protein at atomic resolution, showing an unexpected thioether-linked active-site complex with decanoic acid. We provide evidence that the transferase functions as a cysteine/lysine dyad acyltransferase, in which two invariant residues (Lys-142 and Cys-176) are likely to function as acid/base catalysts. Analysis by MS reveals that the LipB catalytic reaction proceeds by means of an internal thioesteracyl intermediate. Structural comparison of LipB with lipoate protein ligase A indicates that, despite conserved structural and sequence active-site features in the two enzymes, 4'-phosphopantetheine-bound octanoic acid recognition is a specific property of LipB.
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- Qingjun Ma
- *EMBL–Hamburg Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
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- Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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- Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Schumannstrasse 21/22, 10117 Berlin, Germany; and
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- *EMBL–Hamburg Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
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- Proteomics Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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- Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Schumannstrasse 21/22, 10117 Berlin, Germany; and
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- *EMBL–Hamburg Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Onder O, Yoon H, Naumann B, Hippler M, Dancis A, Daldal F. Modifications of the lipoamide-containing mitochondrial subproteome in a yeast mutant defective in cysteine desulfurase. Mol Cell Proteomics 2006; 5:1426-36. [PMID: 16684766 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m600099-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Comparison and identification of mitochondrial matrix proteins from wild-type and cysteine desulfurase-defective (nfs1-14, carrying a hypomorphic allele of NFS1) yeast strains, using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry analyses, revealed large changes in the amounts of various proteins. Protein spots that were specifically increased in the nfs1-14 mutant included subunits of lipoamide-containing enzyme complexes: Kgd2, Lat1, and Gcv3, subunits of the mitochondrial alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, pyruvate dehydrogenase, and glycine cleavage system complexes, respectively. Moreover the increased protein spots corresponded to lipoamide-deficient forms in the nfs1-14 mutant. The increased proteins migrated as separate, cathode-shifted spots, consistent with gain of a lysine charge due to lack of lipoamide addition. Lack of lipoylation of these proteins was further validated using an antibody specific for lipoamide-containing proteins. In addition, this antibody revealed a fourth lipoamide-containing protein, probably corresponding to the E2 component of the branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase complex. Like the lipoamide-containing forms of Kgd2, Lat1, and Gcv3, this protein also showed decreased lipoic acid reactivity in the nfs1-14 mutant. Cysteine desulfurases, such as yeast NFS1, are required for sulfur addition to iron-sulfur clusters and other sulfur-requiring processes. The results demonstrate that Nfs1 protein is required for the proper post-translational modification of the lipoamide-containing mitochondrial subproteome in yeast and pave the road toward a thorough understanding of its precise role in lipoic acid synthesis.
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- Ozlem Onder
- Department of Biology, Plant Science Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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The presence of sulfur in cofactors has been appreciated for over a century, but the trafficking and delivery of sulfur to cofactors and nucleosides is still not fully understood. In the last decade, great strides have been made toward understanding those processes and the enzymes that conduct them, including cysteine desulfurases and rhodanese homology domain proteins. The persulfide group (R-S-SH) predominantly serves as the sulfur donor, and sulfur incorporation pathways share enzymes to a remarkable degree. Mechanisms for the use of persulfide groups are illustrated with the relatively simple case of 4-thiourdine generation, and further possibilities are illuminated by the 2-thiouridine and cofactor biosynthetic systems. The rationale and ramifications of sharing enzymes between sulfur incorporation pathways are discussed, including implications for interpreting genetic or genomic data that indicate a role for a sulfur transfer protein in a particular biological process.
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- Eugene G Mueller
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
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Hinckley GT, Frey PA. Cofactor dependence of reduction potentials for [4Fe-4S]2+/1+ in lysine 2,3-aminomutase. Biochemistry 2006; 45:3219-25. [PMID: 16519516 PMCID: PMC2532065 DOI: 10.1021/bi0519497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Lysine 2,3-aminomutase (LAM) catalyzes the interconversion of l-lysine and l-beta-lysine by a free radical mechanism. The 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical derived from the reductive cleavage of S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) initiates substrate-radical formation. The [4Fe-4S](1+) cluster in LAM is the one-electron source in the reductive cleavage of SAM, which is directly ligated to the unique iron site in the cluster. We here report the midpoint reduction potentials of the [4Fe-4S](2+/1+) couple in the presence of SAM, S-adenosyl-l-homocysteine (SAH), or 5'-{N-[(3S)-3-aminocarboxypropyl]-N-methylamino}-5'-deoxyadenosine (azaSAM) as measured by spectroelectrochemistry. The reduction potentials are -430 +/- 2 mV in the presence of SAM, -460 +/- 3 mV in the presence of SAH, and -497 +/- 10 mV in the presence of azaSAM. In the absence of SAM or an analogue and the presence of dithiothreitol, dihydrolipoate, or cysteine as ligands to the unique iron, the midpoint potentials are -479 +/- 5, -516 +/- 5, and -484 +/- 3 mV, respectively. LAM is a member of the radical SAM superfamily of enzymes, in which the CxxxCxxC motif donates three thiolate ligands to iron in the [4Fe-4S] cluster and SAM donates the alpha-amino and alpha-carboxylate groups of the methionyl moiety as ligands to the fourth iron. The results show the reduction potentials in the midrange for ferredoxin-like [4Fe-4S] clusters. They show that SAM elevates the reduction potential by 86 mV relative to that of dihydrolipoate as the cluster ligand. This difference accounts for the SAM-dependent reduction of the [4Fe-4S](2+) cluster by dithionite reported earlier. Analogues of SAM have a weakened capacity to raise the potential. We conclude that the midpoint reduction potential of the cluster ligated to SAM is 1.2 V less negative than the half-wave potential for the one-electron reductive cleavage of simple alkylsulfonium ions in aqueous solution. The energetic barrier in the reductive cleavage of SAM may be overcome through the use of binding energy.
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- Glen T. Hinckley
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726
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A series of genetic, biochemical, and physiological studies in Escherichia coli have elucidated the unusual pathway whereby lipoic acid is synthesized. Here we describe the results of these investigations as well as the functions of enzyme proteins that are modified by covalent attachment of lipoic acid and the enzymes that catalyze the modification reactions. Some aspects of the synthesis and attachment mechanisms have strong parallels in the pathways used in synthesis and attachment of biotin and these are compared and contrasted. Homologues of the lipoic acid metabolism proteins are found in all branches of life, save the Archea, and thus these findings seem to have wide biological relevance.
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- John E Cronan
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Bryant P, Kriek M, Wood RJ, Roach PL. The activity of a thermostable lipoyl synthase from Sulfolobus solfataricus with a synthetic octanoyl substrate. Anal Biochem 2006; 351:44-9. [PMID: 16500612 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2006.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2005] [Revised: 12/06/2005] [Accepted: 01/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The protein lipoyl synthase (LipA) is essential for lipoic acid biosynthesis via sulfur insertions into a protein-bound octanoyl group. We have developed an in vitro assay for LipA using a synthetic tetrapeptide substrate, containing an N(epsilon)-octanoyl lysine residue, corresponding in sequence to the lipoyl binding domain of the E2 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase. A putative LipA from the hypothermophilic archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified, and the activity was measured using this novel assay. The optimal temperature for the S. solfataricus LipA-dependent formation of the lipoyl group was found to be 60 degrees C.
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- Penny Bryant
- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Alpha-lipoic acid and vitamin E have synergistic effects, as determined in models of oxidant radical lesions. This review summarizes recent findings showing that the combination of alpha-lipoic acid plus vitamin E has beneficial effects in reducing oxidative damage in ischemic or other oxidation-related pathological events. Both antioxidants are common in the normal human diet and side effects are very rare. Therefore, alpha-lipoic acid and vitamin E can counteract oxidative processes and could have an important role in clinical medicine.
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Peters JW, Szilagyi RK, Naumov A, Douglas T. A radical solution for the biosynthesis of the H-cluster of hydrogenase. FEBS Lett 2005; 580:363-7. [PMID: 16386249 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.12.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2005] [Revised: 12/06/2005] [Accepted: 12/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fe-only or FeFe hydrogenases, as they have more recently been termed, possess a uniquely organometallic enzyme active site, termed the H-cluster, where the electronic properties of an iron-sulfur cluster are tuned with distinctly non-biological ligands, carbon monoxide and cyanide. Recently, it was discovered that radical S-adenosylmethionine enzymes were involved in active hydrogenase expression. In the current work, we present a mechanistic scheme for hydrogenase H-cluster biosynthesis in which both carbon monoxide and cyanide ligands can be derived from the decomposition of a glycine radical. The ideas presented have broader implications in the context of the prebiotic origin of amino acids.
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- John W Peters
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
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Layer G, Kervio E, Morlock G, Heinz DW, Jahn D, Retey J, Schubert WD. Structural and functional comparison of HemN to other radical SAM enzymes. Biol Chem 2005; 386:971-80. [PMID: 16218869 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2005.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Radical SAM enzymes have only recently been recognized as an ancient family sharing an unusual radical-based reaction mechanism. This late appreciation is due to the extreme oxygen sensitivity of most radical SAM enzymes, making their characterization particularly arduous. Nevertheless, realization that the novel apposition of the established cofactors S-adenosylmethionine and [4Fe-4S] cluster creates an explosive source of catalytic radicals, the appreciation of the sheer size of this previously neglected family, and the rapid succession of three successfully solved crystal structures within a year have ensured that this family has belatedly been noted. In this review, we report the characterization of two enzymes: the established radical SAM enzyme, HemN or oxygen-independent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase from Escherichia coli, and littorine mutase, a presumed radical SAM enzyme, responsible for the conversion of littorine to hyoscyamine in plants. The enzymes are compared to other radical SAM enzymes and in particular the three reported crystal structures from this family, HemN, biotin synthase and MoaA, are discussed.
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- Gunhild Layer
- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Spielmannstrasse 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Choi-Rhee E, Cronan JE. A nucleosidase required for in vivo function of the S-adenosyl-L-methionine radical enzyme, biotin synthase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 12:589-93. [PMID: 15911379 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2005.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2004] [Revised: 03/04/2005] [Accepted: 04/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Biotin synthase is an S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) radical enzyme that inserts sulfur into dethiobiotin to produce biotin. The reaction proceeds through 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical intermediates that become reduced during the sulfur insertion step to give another product of the reaction, 5'-deoxyadenosine. We report that Escherichia coli strains lacking the 5'-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase encoded by the pfs gene are deficient in biotin synthase activity due to accumulation of 5'-deoxyadenosine, a new substrate of the pfs-encoded nucleosidase. Physiological experiments indicate that lipoic acid synthase, another SAM radical enzyme, is also inhibited by 5'-deoxyadenosine accumulation.
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- Eunjoo Choi-Rhee
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Plasmodium falciparum possesses organelle-specific α-keto acid dehydrogenase complexes and lipoylation pathways. Biochem Soc Trans 2005. [DOI: 10.1042/bst0330977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum possesses a single mitochondrion and a plastid-like organelle called the apicoplast. Both organelles contain members of the KADH (α-keto acid dehydrogenase) complexes – multienzyme complexes that are involved in intermediate metabolism. In the asexual blood stage forms of the parasites, the α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase and branched chain KADH complexes are both located in the mitochondrion, whereas the pyruvate dehydrogenase is exclusively found in the apicoplast. In agreement with this distribution, Plasmodium parasites have two separate and organelle-specific pathways that guarantee lipoylation of the KADH complexes in both organelles. A biosynthetic pathway comprised of lipoic acid synthase and lipoyl (octanoyl)-ACP:protein Nε-lipoyltransferase B is present in the apicoplast, whereas the mitochondrion is supplied with exogenous lipoic acid, and ligation of the metabolite to the KADH complexes is accomplished by a lipoate protein ligase A similar to that of bacteria and plants. Both pathways are excellent potential targets for the design of new antimalarial drugs.
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alpha-Lipoic acid (LA) is a cofactor for mitochondrial alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complexes and is one of the most potent, natural antioxidants. Reduction of oxidative stress by LA supplementation has been demonstrated in patients with diabetic neuropathy and in animal models. To determine how normal development or pathological conditions are affected by genetic alterations in the ability of mammalian cells to synthesize LA and whether dietary LA can circumvent its endogenous absence, we have generated mice deficient in lipoic acid synthase (Lias). Mice heterozygous for disruption of the Lias gene develop normally, and their plasma levels of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances do not differ from those of wild-type mice. However, the heterozygotes have significantly reduced erythrocyte glutathione levels, indicating that their endogenous antioxidant capacity is lower than those of wild-type mice. Homozygous embryos lacking Lias appear healthy at the blastocyst stage, but their development is retarded globally by 7.5 days postcoitum (dpc), and all the null embryos die before 9.5 dpc. Supplementing the diet of heterozygous mothers with LA (1.65 g/kg of body weight) during pregnancy fails to prevent the prenatal deaths of homozygous embryos. Thus, endogenous LA synthesis is essential for developmental survival and cannot be replaced by LA in maternal tissues and blood.
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- Xianwen Yi
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 701 Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525, USA
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Cronan JE, Fearnley IM, Walker JE. Mammalian mitochondria contain a soluble acyl carrier protein. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:4892-6. [PMID: 16109413 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2005] [Accepted: 07/20/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Plant and fungal mitochondria contain type II fatty acid synthesis systems closely related to those of bacteria in which the individual reactions are catalyzed by separate soluble proteins acting on intermediates bound to acyl carrier protein (ACP). Mammalian mitochondria are thought to synthesize fatty acids, but evidence for the key ACP component was lacking since the only reported ACP was the SDAP subunit of the membrane-bound NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase, We report that most of the SDAP is found in the soluble (matrix) fraction of bovine heart mitochondria and is therefore available to carry the intermediates of type II fatty acid synthesis.
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- John E Cronan
- Medical Research Council Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, United Kingdom.
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Marsh ENG, Patwardhan A, Huhta MS. S-adenosylmethionine radical enzymes. Bioorg Chem 2005; 32:326-40. [PMID: 15381399 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2004.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The role of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) as a precursor to organic radicals, generated by one-electron reduction of SAM and subsequent fission to form 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical and methionine, has been known for some time. Only recently, however, has it become apparent how widespread such enzymes are, and what a wide range of chemical reactions they catalyze. In the last few years several new SAM radical enzymes have been identified. Spectroscopic and kinetic investigations have begun to uncover the mechanism by which an iron sulfur cluster unique to these enzymes reduces SAM to generate adenosyl radical. Most recently, the first X-ray structures of SAM radical enzymes, coproporphyrinogen-III oxidase, and biotin synthase have been solved, providing a structural framework within which to interpret mechanistic studies.
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- E Neil G Marsh
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA.
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Nesbitt NM, Baleanu-Gogonea C, Cicchillo RM, Goodson K, Iwig DF, Broadwater JA, Haas JA, Fox BG, Booker SJ. Expression, purification, and physical characterization of Escherichia coli lipoyl(octanoyl)transferase. Protein Expr Purif 2005; 39:269-82. [PMID: 15642479 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2004] [Revised: 10/26/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lipoic acid is a sulfur-containing 8-carbon fatty acid that functions as a central cofactor in multienzyme complexes that are involved in the oxidative decarboxylation of glycine and several alpha-keto acids. In its functional form, it is bound covalently in an amide linkage to the epsilon-amino group of a conserved lysine residue of the "lipoyl bearing subunit," resulting in a long "swinging arm" that shuttles intermediates among the requisite active sites. In Escherichia coli and many other organisms, the lipoyl cofactor can be synthesized endogenously. The 8-carbon fatty-acyl chain is constructed via the type II fatty acid biosynthetic pathway as an appendage to the acyl carrier protein (ACP). Lipoyl(octanoyl)transferase (LipB) transfers the octanoyl chain from ACP to the target lysine acceptor, generating the substrate for lipoyl synthase (LS), which subsequently catalyzes insertion of both sulfur atoms into the C-6 and C-8 positions of the octanoyl chain. In this study, we present a three-step isolation procedure that results in a 14-fold purification of LipB to >95% homogeneity in an overall yield of 25%. We also show that the protein catalyzes the transfer of the octanoyl group from octanoyl-ACP to apo-H protein, which is the lipoyl bearing subunit of the glycine cleavage system. The specific activity of the purified protein is 0.541 U mg(-1), indicating a turnover number of approximately 0.2 s(-1), and the apparent Km values for octanoyl-ACP and apo-H protein are 10.2+/-4.4 and 13.2+/-2.9 microM, respectively.
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- Natasha M Nesbitt
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Kozlov G, Elias D, Semesi A, Yee A, Cygler M, Gehring K. Structural similarity of YbeD protein from Escherichia coli to allosteric regulatory domains. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:8083-8. [PMID: 15547281 PMCID: PMC529071 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.23.8083-8088.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lipoic acid is an essential prosthetic group in several metabolic pathways. The biosynthetic pathway of protein lipoylation in Escherichia coli involves gene products of the lip operon. YbeD is a conserved bacterial protein located in the dacA-lipB intergenic region. Here, we report the nuclear magnetic resonance structure of YbeD from E. coli. The structure includes a beta alpha beta beta alpha beta fold with two alpha-helices on one side of a four-strand antiparallel beta-sheet. The beta 2-beta 3 loop shows the highest sequence conservation and is likely functionally important. The beta-sheet surface contains a patch of conserved hydrophobic residues, suggesting a role in protein-protein interactions. YbeD shows striking structural homology to the regulatory domain from d-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, hinting at a role in the allosteric regulation of lipoic acid biosynthesis or the glycine cleavage system.
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- Guennadi Kozlov
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6
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Wrenger C, Müller S. The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has distinct organelle-specific lipoylation pathways. Mol Microbiol 2004; 53:103-13. [PMID: 15225307 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04112.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lipoic acid is an essential cofactor of alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complexes (KADHCs). This study shows that Plasmodium falciparum possesses two distinct lipoylation pathways that are found in separate subcellular localizations. Lipoic acid synthesis comprising lipoic acid synthase and lipoyl-ACP:protein N-lipoyl transferase is present in the parasite's apicoplast, whereas the second pathway consisting of lipoic acid protein ligase is located in the parasite's mitochondrion. The two localizations were established by overexpressing green fluorescent protein fusions of the N-terminal sequences of lipoic acid synthase and lipoic acid protein ligase in intraerythrocytic stages of P. falciparum. Northern and Western blot analyses revealed that the genes/proteins encoding lipoic acid synthase, lipoyl-ACP:protein N-lipoyl transferase and lipoic acid protein ligase are expressed maximally in the early and late stages of P. falciparum erythrocytic development. The functionality of the three proteins was proven by complementation of bacteria deficient in lipA and lipB. Our results show that P. falciparum possesses two independent pathways, with different locations, responsible for the post-translational modification of KADHCs. Both pathways fundamentally differ from those in the human host. As KADHCs provide metabolites that are required for essential biosynthetic processes such as fatty acid biosynthesis and haem biosynthesis, the two lipoylation pathways of P. falciparum might be attractive therapeutic targets against malaria.
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- Carsten Wrenger
- Division of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, WTB/MSI Complex, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK
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Jiang Y, Cronan JE. Expression cloning and demonstration of Enterococcus faecalis lipoamidase (pyruvate dehydrogenase inactivase) as a Ser-Ser-Lys triad amidohydrolase. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:2244-56. [PMID: 15528186 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m408612200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Enterococcus faecalis lipoamidase was discovered almost 50 years ago (Reed, L. J., Koike, M., Levitch, M. E., and Leach, F. R. (1958) J. Biol. Chem. 232, 143-158) as an enzyme activity that cleaved lipoic acid from small lipoylated molecules and from pyruvate dehydrogenase thereby inactivating the enzyme. Although the partially purified enzyme was a key reagent in proving the crucial role of protein-bound lipoic acid in the reaction mechanism of the 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases, the identity of the lipoamidase protein and the encoding gene remained unknown. We report isolation of the lipoamidase gene by screening an expression library made in an unusual cosmid vector in which the copy number of the vector is readily varied from 1-2 to 40-80 in an appropriate Escherichia coli host. Although designed for manipulation of large genome segments, the vector was also ideally suited to isolation of the gene encoding the extremely toxic lipoamidase. The gene encoding lipoamidase was isolated by screening for expression in E. coli and proved to encode an unexpectedly large protein (80 kDa) that contained the sequence signature of the Ser-Ser-Lys triad amidohydrolase family. The hexa-histidine-tagged protein was expressed in E. coli and purified to near-homogeneity. The purified enzyme was found to cleave both small molecule lipoylated and biotinylated substrates as well as lipoic acid from two 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases and an isolated lipoylated lipoyl domain derived from the pyruvate dehydrogenase E2 subunit. Lipoamidase-mediated inactivation of the 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases was observed both in vivo and in vitro. Mutagenesis studies showed that the residues of the Ser-Ser-Lys triad were required for activity on both small molecule and protein substrates and confirmed that lipoamidase is a member of the Ser-Ser-Lys triad amidohydrolase family.
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- Yanfang Jiang
- Department of Microbiology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Lipoic acid is almost universally required for aerobic metabolism. However, the mechanism for its synthesis and incorporation into proteins has remained elusive. A groundbreaking study published in the December issue of Chemistry & Biology uncovers critical features of the lipoic acid biosynthetic pathway.
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- Squire J Booker
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
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Leonardi R, Roach PL. Thiamine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: in vitro reconstitution of the thiazole synthase activity. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:17054-62. [PMID: 14757766 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312714200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The biosynthesis of thiamine in Escherichia coli requires the formation of an intermediate thiazole from tyrosine, 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate (Dxp), and cysteine using at least six structural proteins, ThiFSGH, IscS, and ThiI. We describe for the first time the reconstitution of thiazole synthase activity using cell-free extracts and proteins derived from adenosine-treated E. coli 83-1 cells. The addition of adenosine or adenine to growing cultures of Aerobacter aerogenes, Salmonella typhimurium, and E. coli has been shown previously to relieve the repression by thiamine of its own biosynthesis and increase the expression levels of the thiamine biosynthetic enzymes. By exploiting this effect, we show that the in vitro thiazole synthase activity of cleared lysates or desalted proteins from E. coli 83-1 cells is dependent upon the addition of purified ThiGH-His complex, tyrosine (but not cysteine or 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate), and an as yet unidentified intermediate present in the protein fraction from these cells. The activity is strongly stimulated by the addition of S-adenosylmethionine and NADPH.
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- Roberta Leonardi
- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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Yasuno R, von Wettstein-Knowles P, Wada H. Identification and Molecular Characterization of the β-Ketoacyl-[Acyl Carrier Protein] Synthase Component of the Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthase. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:8242-51. [PMID: 14660674 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308894200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Substrate specificity of condensing enzymes is a predominant factor determining the nature of fatty acyl chains synthesized by type II fatty acid synthase (FAS) enzyme complexes composed of discrete enzymes. The gene (mtKAS) encoding the condensing enzyme, beta-ketoacyl-[acyl carrier protein] (ACP) synthase (KAS), constituent of the mitochondrial FAS was cloned from Arabidopsis thaliana, and its product was purified and characterized. The mtKAS cDNA complemented the KAS II defect in the E. coli CY244 strain mutated in both fabB and fabF encoding KAS I and KAS II, respectively, demonstrating its ability to catalyze the condensation reaction in fatty acid synthesis. In vitro assays using extracts of CY244 containing all E. coli FAS components, except that KAS I and II were replaced by mtKAS, gave C(4)-C(18) fatty acids exhibiting a bimodal distribution with peaks at C(8) and C(14)-C(16). Previously observed bimodal distributions obtained using mitochondrial extracts appear attributable to the mtKAS enzyme in the extracts. Although the mtKAS sequence is most similar to that of bacterial KAS IIs, sensitivity of mtKAS to the antibiotic cerulenin resembles that of E. coli KAS I. In the first or priming condensation reaction of de novo fatty acid synthesis, purified His-tagged mtKAS efficiently utilized malonyl-ACP, but not acetyl-CoA as primer substrate. Intracellular targeting using green fluorescent protein, Western blot, and deletion analyses identified an N-terminal signal conveying mtKAS into mitochondria. Thus, mtKAS with its broad chain length specificity accomplishes all condensation steps in mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis, whereas in plastids three KAS enzymes are required.
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- Rie Yasuno
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Zhao X, Miller JR, Jiang Y, Marletta MA, Cronan JE. Assembly of the Covalent Linkage between Lipoic Acid and Its Cognate Enzymes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 10:1293-302. [PMID: 14700636 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2003.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lipoic acid is synthesized from octanoic acid by insertion of sulfur atoms at carbons 6 and 8 and is covalently attached to a pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) subunit. We show that sulfur atoms can be inserted into octanoyl moieties attached to a PDH subunit or a derived domain. Escherichia coli lipB mutants grew well when supplemented with octanoate in place of lipoate. Octanoate growth required both lipoate protein ligase (LplA) and LipA, the sulfur insertion protein, suggesting that LplA attached octanoate to the dehydrogenase and LipA then converted the octanoate to lipoate. This pathway was tested by labeling a PDH domain with deuterated octanoate in an E. coli strain devoid of LipA activity. The labeled octanoyl domain was converted to lipoylated domain upon restoration of LipA. Moreover, octanoyl domain and octanoyl-PDH were substrates for sulfur insertion in vitro.
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- Xin Zhao
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Daley CJA, Holm RH. Reactions of site-differentiated [Fe4S4]2+,1+ clusters with sulfonium cations: reactivity analogues of biotin synthase and other members of the S-adenosylmethionine enzyme family. J Inorg Biochem 2003; 97:287-98. [PMID: 14511891 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-0134(03)00280-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The first examples of reduced 3:1 site-differentiated Fe(4)S(4) clusters have been synthesized as [Fe(4)S(4)(LS(3))(SR')](3-) (R=Et, Ph) by chemical reduction of previously reported [Fe(4)S(4)(LS(3))(SR')](2-) clusters, and isolated as NBu(4)(+) salts. The reduced clusters were characterized by electrochemistry and EPR, 1H NMR, and Mössbauer spectroscopies. The reaction of oxidized clusters with the sulfonium ions [PhMeSCH(2)R](+) (R=COPh, p-C(6)H(4)CN) in acetonitrile results in electrophilic attack on coordinated thiolate and production of PhSMe and R'SCH(2)R when the reaction occurs at the unique cluster site. The reactions of reduced clusters with these substrates were examined in relation to the reductive cleavage of the cofactor S-adenosylmethionine, the first step in the catalytic cycle of biotin synthase. Product analysis indicated a approximately 4:1 ratio of reductive cleavage to electrophilic attack. The cleavage products are PhSMe, R'SCH(2)R, and RCH(3) for both clusters, and also PhMeS=CHR and RCH(2)CH(2)R from secondary reactions when the sulfonium cation is [PhMeSCH(2)COPh](+) and [PhMeSCH(2)-p-C(6)H(4)CN](+), respectively. Reaction schemes for reductive cleavage based on product distributions are presented. These results parallel those previously reported for homoleptic [Fe(4)S(4)(SR')(4)](2-,3-) clusters and demonstrate that site-differentiated clusters sustain a high percentage of reductive cleavage, a necessary result in the context of biotin synthase activity preceding an investigation of the mode of binding of sulfonium substrates and inhibitors at the unique iron site. [LS(3)=1,3,5-tris[(4,6-dimethyl-3-mercaptophenyl)thio]-2,4,6-tris(p-tolylthio)benzene(3-)].
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- Christopher J A Daley
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Pierrel F, Hernandez HL, Johnson MK, Fontecave M, Atta M. MiaB protein from Thermotoga maritima. Characterization of an extremely thermophilic tRNA-methylthiotransferase. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:29515-24. [PMID: 12766153 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m301518200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In Escherichia coli, the MiaB protein catalyzes the methylthiolation of N-6-isopentenyl adenosine in tRNAs, the last reaction step during biosynthesis of 2-methylthio-N-6-isopentenyl adenosine (ms2i6A-37). For the first time the thermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima is shown here to contain such a MiaB tRNA-modifying enzyme, named MiaBTm, and to synthesize ms2i6A-37 as demonstrated by an analysis of modified nucleosides from tRNA hydrolysates. The corresponding gene (TM0653) was identified by sequence similarity to the miaB gene cloned and expressed in E. coli. MiaBTm was purified to homogeneity and thoroughly characterized by biochemical and spectroscopic methods. It is a monomer of 443 residues with a molecular mass of 50,710 kilodaltons. Its amino acid sequence shares the CysXXX-CysXXCys sequence with MiaB from E. coli as well as with biotin synthase and lipoate synthase. This sequence was shown to be essential for chelation of an iron-sulfur center and for activity in these enzymes. As isolated, MiaBTm contains both iron and sulfide and an apoprotein form can coordinate up to 4 iron and 4 sulfur atoms per polypeptide chain. UV-visible absorption, resonance Raman, variable temperature magnetic circular dichroism, and EPR spectroscopy of MiaBTm indicate the presence of a [4Fe-4S]+2/+1 cluster under reducing and anaerobic conditions, whereas [3Fe-4S]+1 and [2Fe-2S]+2 forms are generated under aerobic conditions. The redox potential of the [4Fe-4S]+2/+1 transition is -495 +/- 10 mV (versus the normal hydrogen electrode). Finally, the expression of MiaBTm from T. maritima in an E. coli mutant strain lacking functional miaB gene allowed production of ms2i6A-37. These results provide further information on the enzymes involved in methylthiolation of tRNAs.
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- Fabien Pierrel
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie des Centres Rédox Biologiques, Département Réponse et Dynamique Cellulaires-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5047 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Grenoble, France
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Thomsen-Zieger N, Schachtner J, Seeber F. Apicomplexan parasites contain a single lipoic acid synthase located in the plastid. FEBS Lett 2003; 547:80-6. [PMID: 12860390 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00673-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Apicomplexan parasites contain a vestigial plastid called apicoplast which has been suggested to be a site of [Fe-S] cluster biogenesis. Here we report the cloning of lipoic acid synthase (LipA) from Toxoplasma gondii, a well known [Fe-S] protein. It is able to complement a LipA-deficient Escherichia coli strain, clearly demonstrating that the parasite protein is a functional LipA. The N-terminus of T. gondii LipA is unusual with respect to an internal signal peptide preceding an apicoplast targeting domain. Nevertheless, it efficiently targets a reporter protein to the apicoplast of T. gondii whereas co-localization with the fluorescently labeled mitochondrion was not detected. In silico analysis of several apicomplexan genomes indicates that the parasites, in addition to the presumably apicoplast-resident pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, contain three other mitochondrion-localized target proteins for lipoic acid attachment. We also identified single genes for lipoyl (octanoyl)-acyl carrier protein:protein transferase (LipB) and lipoate protein ligase (LplA) in these genomes. It thus appears that unlike plants, which have only two LipA and LipB isoenzymes in both the chloroplasts and the mitochondria, Apicomplexa seem to use the second known lipoylating activity, LplA, for lipoylation in their mitochondrion.
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- Nadine Thomsen-Zieger
- Parasitologie, FB Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str., D-35032, Marburg, Germany
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Fontecave M, Ollagnier-de-Choudens S, Mulliez E. Biological radical sulfur insertion reactions. Chem Rev 2003; 103:2149-66. [PMID: 12797827 DOI: 10.1021/cr020427j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Marc Fontecave
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie des Centres Rédox Biologiques, DRDC-CB, CEA/CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier, UMR 5047, 17, Avenue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France.
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Hinckley GT, Ruzicka FJ, Thompson MJ, Blackburn GM, Frey PA. Adenosyl coenzyme and pH dependence of the [4Fe-4S]2+/1+ transition in lysine 2,3-aminomutase. Arch Biochem Biophys 2003; 414:34-9. [PMID: 12745252 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(03)00160-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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5'-[N-[(3S)-3-Amino-carboxypropyl]-N-methylamino]-5(')-deoxyadenosine (azaSAM), an analog of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM), was used to study the cofactor-dependent reduction of the [4Fe-4S](2+) center in lysine 2,3-aminomutase to the +1 oxidation state. azaSAM has a tertiary nitrogen in place of the sulfonium center of SAM. The analog binds to lysine 2,3-aminomutase with K(d)s of 1.4+/-0.3 microM at pH 8.0 and 2.2+/-0.6 microM at pH 6.5. Reduction of the [4Fe-4S](2+) center in the presence of this analog gives a 10K [4Fe-4S](1+) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal similar to that seen with SAM or S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH). The pH dependence of cofactor-induced reduction was examined to determine whether ionization of the tertiary nitrogen (pK(a)=7.08) might affect reduction of the [4Fe-4S](2+) center. The results show similar behavior in azaSAM and SAH, demonstrating that ionization of the aza group in azaSAM does not account for pH dependence in cofactor-dependent reduction of the [4Fe-4S](2+) center. The signal shape of the low-temperature EPR signal for the [4Fe-4S](1+) center in the SAM-induced reduction displayed a pH dependence that was not observed in the azaSAM- or SAH-induced spectra. Unique features of the signal are at a maximum at the pH activity optimum of pH 8 and are diminished as the pH is lowered or raised. These features are also absent in the spectra at all pHs examined when reduction is induced by azaSAM or SAH.
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- Glen T Hinckley
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 53705, USA
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Frey PA, Magnusson OT. S-Adenosylmethionine: a wolf in sheep's clothing, or a rich man's adenosylcobalamin? Chem Rev 2003; 103:2129-48. [PMID: 12797826 DOI: 10.1021/cr020422m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Perry A Frey
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA.
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Kriek M, Peters L, Takahashi Y, Roach PL. Effect of iron-sulfur cluster assembly proteins on the expression of Escherichia coli lipoic acid synthase. Protein Expr Purif 2003; 28:241-5. [PMID: 12699687 DOI: 10.1016/s1046-5928(02)00680-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Lipoic Acid Synthase (LipA) can accommodate a [4Fe-4S] cluster that is thought to be essential for the insertion of sulfur into an octanoyl substrate during the biosynthesis of lipoic acid. With the objective of improving soluble holo-LipA expression, a series of multi-cistronic plasmids were constructed carrying lipA in combination with one of the three systems: groE/SL, trxA, or the isc operon. Co-expression of lipA with the isc operon approximately trebled the isolated yield of soluble LipA and resulted in efficient assembly of the Fe-S cluster. This strategy may be helpful in the soluble expression of a wide range of Fe-S cluster-dependent proteins.
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- Marco Kriek
- Department of Chemistry, Southampton University, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Leonardi R, Fairhurst SA, Kriek M, Lowe DJ, Roach PL. Thiamine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: isolation and initial characterisation of the ThiGH complex. FEBS Lett 2003; 539:95-9. [PMID: 12650933 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00204-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In Escherichia coli, two of the proteins required for the biosynthesis of the thiazole moiety of thiamine (vitamin B(1)) are ThiG and ThiH, encoded as part of the thiCEFSGH operon. In this study, a C-terminally hexahistidine-tagged ThiH (ThiH-His) was expressed in E. coli as a soluble protein from thiGH-His-tag and thiFSGH-His-tag-bearing plasmids. When isolated under anaerobic conditions, ThiG and ThiH-His co-purify as a large multimeric non-covalent complex. Electron paramagnetic resonance and UV-visible spectroscopy together with iron and sulfide analyses revealed the presence of an iron-sulfur cluster within this complex.
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- Roberta Leonardi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Ugulava NB, Frederick KK, Jarrett JT. Control of adenosylmethionine-dependent radical generation in biotin synthase: a kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of substrate binding to active and inactive forms of BioB. Biochemistry 2003; 42:2708-19. [PMID: 12614166 PMCID: PMC1540705 DOI: 10.1021/bi0261084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Biotin synthase (BS) is an AdoMet-dependent radical enzyme that catalyzes the insertion of sulfur into saturated C6 and C9 atoms in the substrate dethiobiotin. To facilitate sulfur insertion, BS catalyzes the reductive cleavage of AdoMet to methionine and 5'-deoxyadenosyl radicals, which then abstract hydrogen atoms from the C6 and C9 positions of dethiobiotin. The enzyme from Escherichia coli is purified as a dimer that contains one [2Fe-2S]2+ cluster per monomer and can be reconstituted in vitro to contain an additional [4Fe-4S]2+ cluster per monomer. Since each monomer contains each type of cluster, the dimeric enzyme could contain one active site per monomer, or could contain a single active site at the dimer interface. To address these possibilities, and to better understand the manner in which biotin synthase controls radical generation and reactivity, we have examined the binding of AdoMet and DTB to reconstituted biotin synthase. We find that both the [2Fe-2S]2+ cluster and the [4Fe-4S]2+ cluster must be present for tight substrate binding. Further, substrate binding is highly cooperative, with the affinity for AdoMet increasing >20-fold in the presence of DTB, while DTB binds only in the presence of AdoMet. The stoichiometry of binding is ca. 2:1:1 AdoMet:DTB:BS dimer, suggesting that biotin synthase has a single functional active site per dimer. AdoMet binding, either in the presence or in the absence of DTB, leads to a decrease in the magnitude of the UV-visible absorption band at approximately 400 nm that we attribute to changes in the coordination environment of the [4Fe-4S]2+ cluster. Using these spectral changes as a probe, we have examined the kinetics of AdoMet and DTB binding, and propose an ordered binding mechanism that is followed by a conformational change in the enzyme-substrate complex. This kinetic analysis suggests that biotin synthase is evolved to bind AdoMet both weakly and slowly in the absence of DTB, while both the rate of binding and the affinity for AdoMet are increased in the presence of DTB. Cooperative binding of AdoMet and DTB may be an important mechanism for limiting the production of 5'-deoxyadenosyl radicals in the absence of the correct substrate.
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- Natalia B Ugulava
- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6059, USA
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Jarrett JT, Wan JT. Thermal inactivation of reduced ferredoxin (flavodoxin):NADP+ oxidoreductase from Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett 2002; 529:237-42. [PMID: 12372607 PMCID: PMC1540464 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03349-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Ferredoxin (flavodoxin):NADP+ oxidoreductase (FNR) is an essential enzyme that supplies electrons from NADPH to support flavodoxin-dependent enzyme radical generation and enzyme activation. FNR is a monomeric enzyme that contains a non-covalently bound FAD cofactor. We report that reduced FNR from Escherichia coli is subject to inactivation due to unfolding of the protein and dissociation of the FADH(2) cofactor at 37 degrees C. The inactivation rate is temperature-dependent in a manner that parallels the thermal unfolding of the protein and is slowed by binding of ferredoxin or flavodoxin. Understanding factors that minimize inactivation is critical for utilizing FNR as an accessory protein for S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent radical enzymes and manipulating FNR as an electron source for biotechnology applications.
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- Joseph T Jarrett
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, 905B Stellar-Chance Laboratories, 422 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Wan JT, Jarrett JT. Electron acceptor specificity of ferredoxin (flavodoxin):NADP+ oxidoreductase from Escherichia coli. Arch Biochem Biophys 2002; 406:116-26. [PMID: 12234497 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00421-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Reduced flavodoxin I (Fld1) is required in Escherichia coli for reductive radical generation in AdoMet-dependent radical enzymes and reductive activation of cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase. Ferredoxin (Fd) and flavodoxin II (Fld2) are also present, although their precise roles have not been ascertained. Ferredoxin (flavodoxin):NADP+ oxidoreductase (FNR) was discovered in E. coli as an NADPH-dependent reductant of Fld1 that facilitated generation of active methionine synthase in vitro; FNR and Fld1 will also supply electrons for the reductive cleavage of AdoMet essential for generating protein or substrate radicals in pyruvate formate-lyase, class III ribonucleotide reductase, biotin synthase, and, potentially, lipoyl synthase. As part of ongoing efforts to understand the various redox pathways that will support AdoMet-dependent radical enzymes in E. coli, we have examined the relative specificity of E. coli FNR for Fd, Fld1, and Fld2. While FNR will reduce all three proteins, Fd is the kinetically and thermodynamically preferred partner. Fd binds to FNR with high affinity (K(d)<or=0.5 microM) and is reduced under single-turnover conditions with k(obs)=2.3s(-1) and under steady state conditions with k(cat)=0.15s(-1). Fld1 and Fld2 behave similarly with respect to FNR, with affinities approximately 4- to 7-fold weaker and reduction rates that are 10- to 100-fold slower than those for Fd. Surprisingly we find that Fld1 and Fld2 can obtain electrons from reduced Fd at rates that are comparable to those obtained with reduced FNR. Thus we propose that the primary electron acceptor for E. coli FNR is Fd, while Fld1 can obtain electrons slowly either from FNR or via Fd as a mediator.
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- Jason T Wan
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Johnson Research Foundation, 905B Stellar-Chance Laboratories, 422 Curie Boulevard, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Jordan SW, Cronan JE. Chromosomal amplification of the Escherichia coli lipB region confers high-level resistance to selenolipoic acid. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:5495-501. [PMID: 12218038 PMCID: PMC135368 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.19.5495-5501.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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One of the mutants (slr7 mutant) of a wild-type Escherichia coli strain resistant to selenolipoic acid reported previously (K. E. Reed, T. W. Morris, and J. E. Cronan, Jr., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:3720-3724, 1994) unexpectedly grew on minimal medium following transductional introduction of a lipA null mutation. We report that the slr7 strain carries a duplication of the lip chromosomal region that causes the phenotype of the mutant strain.
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- Sean W Jordan
- Departments of Microbiology. Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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