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Shen L, Peraglie C, Podlesainski D, Stracke C, Ojha RS, Caliebe F, Kaiser M, Forchhammer K, Hagemann M, Gutekunst K, Snoep JL, Bräsen C, Siebers B. Structure function analysis of ADP-dependent cyanobacterial phosphofructokinase reveals new phylogenetic grouping in the PFK-A family. J Biol Chem 2024:107868. [PMID: 39393572 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2024] [Revised: 09/19/2024] [Accepted: 10/01/2024] [Indexed: 10/13/2024] Open
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Dependent on the light conditions, photosynthetic organisms switch between carbohydrate synthesis or breakdown, for which the reversibility of carbohydrate metabolism, including glycolysis, is essential. Kinetic regulation of phosphofructokinase (PFK), a key-control point in glycolysis, was studied in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The two PFK iso-enzymes (PFK- A1, PFK-A2), were found to use ADP instead of ATP, and have similar kinetic characteristics, but differ in their allosteric regulation. PFK-A1 is inhibited by 3- phosphoglycerate, a product of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle, while PFK-A2 is inhibited by ATP, which is provided by photosynthesis. This regulation enables cyanobacteria to switch PFK off in light, and on in darkness. ADP dependence has not been reported before for the PFK-A enzyme family, and was thought to be restricted to the PFK-B ribokinase superfamily. Phosphate donor specificity within the PFK-A family could be related to specific binding motifs in ATP-, ADP-, and PPi-dependent PFK-As. Phylogenetic analysis revealed a distribution of ADP-PFK-As in cyanobacteria and in a few alphaproteobacteria, which was confirmed in enzymatic studies.
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- Lu Shen
- Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, State, Germany
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- Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, State, Germany
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- Chemical Biology, Centre of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 2, 45117 Essen, Germany
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- Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, State, Germany
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- Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, State, Germany
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- Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Chemical Biology, Centre of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 2, 45117 Essen, Germany
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- Microbiology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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- Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, 7600 Stellenbosch, South Africa; Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, State, Germany.
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- Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry (MEB), Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, Essen, 45141, State, Germany.
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Coenzyme A (CoA) is an essential cofactor present in all domains of life and is involved in numerous metabolic pathways, including fatty acid metabolism, pyruvate oxidation through the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, and the production of secondary metabolites. This characteristic makes CoA a commercially valuable compound in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and clinical industries. However, CoA is difficult to accumulate in living cells at a high level, since it is consumed in multiple metabolic pathways, hampering its manufacturing by typical cell cultivation and extraction approaches. The feedback inhibition by CoA to a biosynthetic enzyme, pantothenate kinase (PanK), is also a serious obstacle for the high-titer production of CoA. To overcome this challenge, in vitro production of CoA, in which the CoA biosynthetic pathway was reconstructed outside cells using recombinant thermophilic enzymes, was performed. The in vitro pathway was designed to be insensitive to the feedback inhibition of CoA using CoA-insensitive type III PanK from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus. Furthermore, a statistical approach using design of experiments (DOE) was employed to rationally determine the enzyme loading ratio to maximize the CoA production rate. Consequently, 0.94 mM CoA could be produced from 2 mM d-pantetheine through the designed pathway. We hypothesized that the insufficient conversion yield is attributed to the high Km value of T. thermophilus PanK toward ATP. Based on these observations, possible CoA regulation mechanisms in T. thermophilus and approaches to improve the feasibility of CoA production through the in vitro pathway have been investigated. IMPORTANCE The biosynthesis of coenzyme A (CoA) in bacteria and eukaryotes is regulated by feedback inhibition targeting type I and type II pantothenate kinase (PanK). Type III PanK is found only in bacteria and is generally insensitive to CoA. Previously, type III PanK from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima was shown to defy this typical characteristic and instead shows inhibition toward CoA. In the present study, phylogenetic analysis combined with functional analysis of type III PanK from thermophiles revealed that the CoA-sensitive behavior of type III PanK from T. maritima is uncommon. We cloned type III PanKs from Thermus thermophilus and Geobacillus sp. strain 30 and showed that neither enzyme's activities were inhibited by CoA. Furthermore, we utilized type III PanK for a one-pot cascade reaction to produce CoA.
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Carbohydrate metabolism in Archaea: current insights into unusual enzymes and pathways and their regulation. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2014; 78:89-175. [PMID: 24600042 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00041-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The metabolism of Archaea, the third domain of life, resembles in its complexity those of Bacteria and lower Eukarya. However, this metabolic complexity in Archaea is accompanied by the absence of many "classical" pathways, particularly in central carbohydrate metabolism. Instead, Archaea are characterized by the presence of unique, modified variants of classical pathways such as the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway and the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. The pentose phosphate pathway is only partly present (if at all), and pentose degradation also significantly differs from that known for bacterial model organisms. These modifications are accompanied by the invention of "new," unusual enzymes which cause fundamental consequences for the underlying regulatory principles, and classical allosteric regulation sites well established in Bacteria and Eukarya are lost. The aim of this review is to present the current understanding of central carbohydrate metabolic pathways and their regulation in Archaea. In order to give an overview of their complexity, pathway modifications are discussed with respect to unusual archaeal biocatalysts, their structural and mechanistic characteristics, and their regulatory properties in comparison to their classic counterparts from Bacteria and Eukarya. Furthermore, an overview focusing on hexose metabolic, i.e., glycolytic as well as gluconeogenic, pathways identified in archaeal model organisms is given. Their energy gain is discussed, and new insights into different levels of regulation that have been observed so far, including the transcript and protein levels (e.g., gene regulation, known transcription regulators, and posttranslational modification via reversible protein phosphorylation), are presented.
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Acetate activation in Methanosaeta thermophila: characterization of the key enzymes pyrophosphatase and acetyl-CoA synthetase. ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2012; 2012:315153. [PMID: 22927778 PMCID: PMC3426162 DOI: 10.1155/2012/315153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2012] [Accepted: 06/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The thermophilic methanogen Methanosaeta thermophila uses acetate as sole substrate for methanogenesis. It was proposed that the acetate activation reaction that is needed to feed acetate into the methanogenic pathway requires the hydrolysis of two ATP, whereas the acetate activation reaction in Methanosarcina sp. is known to require only one ATP. As these organisms live at the thermodynamic limit that sustains life, the acetate activation reaction in Mt. thermophila seems too costly and was thus reevaluated. It was found that of the putative acetate activation enzymes one gene encoding an AMP-forming acetyl-CoA synthetase was highly expressed. The corresponding enzyme was purified and characterized in detail. It catalyzed the ATP-dependent formation of acetyl-CoA, AMP, and pyrophosphate (PPi)
and was only moderately inhibited by PPi. The breakdown of PPi
was performed by a soluble pyrophosphatase. This enzyme was also purified and characterized. The pyrophosphatase hydrolyzed the major part of PPi
(KM = 0.27 ± 0.05 mM) that was produced in the acetate activation reaction. Activity was not inhibited by nucleotides or PPi. However, it cannot be excluded that other PPi-dependent enzymes take advantage of the remaining PPi
and contribute to the energy balance of the cell.
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Hansen T, Arnfors L, Ladenstein R, Schönheit P. The phosphofructokinase-B (MJ0406) from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii represents a nucleoside kinase with a broad substrate specificity. Extremophiles 2006; 11:105-14. [PMID: 17021658 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0018-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2006] [Accepted: 07/04/2006] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Recently, unusual non-regulated ATP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinases (PFK) that belong to the PFK-B family have been described for the hyperthermophilic archaea Desulfurococcus amylolyticus and Aeropyrum pernix. Putative homologues were found in genomes of several archaea including the hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. In this organism, open reading frame MJ0406 had been annotated as a PFK-B sugar kinase. The gene encoding MJ0406 was cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified recombinant enzyme is a homodimer with an apparent molecular mass of 68 kDa composed of 34 kDa subunits. With a temperature optimum of 85 degrees C and a melting temperature of 90 degrees C, the M. jannaschii nucleotide kinase represents one of the most thermoactive and thermostable members of the PFK-B family described so far. The recombinant enzyme was characterized as a functional nucleoside kinase rather than a 6-PFK. Inosine, guanosine, and cytidine were the most effective phosphoryl acceptors. Besides, adenosine, thymidine, uridin and xanthosine were less efficient. Extremely low activity was found with fructose-6-phosphate. Further, the substrate specificity of closely related PFK-Bs from D. amylolyticus and A. pernix were reanalysed.
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- Thomas Hansen
- Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 1-9, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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Ronimus RS, Morgan HW. Distribution and phylogenies of enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway from archaea and hyperthermophilic bacteria support a gluconeogenic origin of metabolism. ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2005; 1:199-221. [PMID: 15803666 PMCID: PMC2685568 DOI: 10.1155/2003/162593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Enzymes of the gluconeogenic/glycolytic pathway (the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway), the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle, the reductive pentose phosphate cycle and the Entner-Doudoroff pathway are widely distributed and are often considered to be central to the origins of metabolism. In particular, several enzymes of the lower portion of the EMP pathway (the so-called trunk pathway), including triosephosphate isomerase (TPI; EC 5.3.1.1), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH; EC 1.2.1.12/13), phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK; EC 2.7.2.3) and enolase (EC 4.2.1.11), are extremely well conserved and universally distributed among the three domains of life. In this paper, the distribution of enzymes of gluconeogenesis/glycolysis in hyperthermophiles--microorganisms that many believe represent the least evolved organisms on the planet--is reviewed. In addition, the phylogenies of the trunk pathway enzymes (TPIs, GAPDHs, PGKs and enolases) are examined. The enzymes catalyzing each of the six-carbon transformations in the upper portion of the EMP pathway, with the possible exception of aldolase, are all derived from multiple gene sequence families. In contrast, single sequence families can account for the archaeal and hyperthermophilic bacterial enzyme activities of the lower portion of the EMP pathway. The universal distribution of the trunk pathway enzymes, in combination with their phylogenies, supports the notion that the EMP pathway evolved in the direction of gluconeogenesis, i.e., from the bottom up.
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- Ron S Ronimus
- Thermophile Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Krawiec K, Kierdaszuk B, Shugar D. Inorganic tripolyphosphate (PPP(i)) as a phosphate donor for human deoxyribonucleoside kinases. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 301:192-7. [PMID: 12535661 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)03007-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Inorganic tripolyphosphate (PPP(i)) and pyrophosphate (PP(i)) were examined as potential phosphate donors for human deoxynucleoside kinase (dCK), deoxyguanosine kinase (dGK), cytosolic thymidine kinase (TK1), mitochondrial TK2, and the deoxynucleoside kinase (dNK) from Drosophila melanogaster. PPP(i) proved to be a good phosphate donor for dGK, as well as for dCK with dCyd, but not dAdo, as acceptor substrate, illustrating also the dependence of donor properties on acceptor. Products of phosphorylation were shown to be 5(')-phosphates. In striking contrast to ATP, the phosphorylation reaction follows strict Michaelis-Menten kinetics, with K(m) values of 74 and 92 microM for dCK and dGK, respectively, and V(max) values 40-50% that for ATP. With the other three enzymes, as well as for dCK with dAdo as acceptor, no, or only low levels (</=1% of that for ATP) of activity were observed. PP(i) was inactive (<0.1%) as a phosphate donor with all enzymes, but was a competitive inhibitor vs ATP, as was PPP(i) in systems with no or low donor activity. This is the first report on inorganic tripolyphosphate as a phosphate donor for nucleoside kinases, in particular human deoxyribonucleoside kinases.
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- Krzysztof Krawiec
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, 93 Zwirki i Wigury St., PL-02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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