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Ernst C, Kayastha K, Koch T, Venceslau SS, Pereira IAC, Demmer U, Ermler U, Dahl C. Structural and spectroscopic characterization of a HdrA-like subunit from Hyphomicrobium denitrificans. FEBS J 2020; 288:1664-1678. [PMID: 32750208 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Many bacteria and archaea employ a novel pathway of sulfur oxidation involving an enzyme complex that is related to the heterodisulfide reductase (Hdr or HdrABC) of methanogens. As a first step in the biochemical characterization of Hdr-like proteins from sulfur oxidizers (sHdr), we structurally analyzed the recombinant sHdrA protein from the Alphaproteobacterium Hyphomicrobium denitrificans at 1.4 Å resolution. The sHdrA core structure is similar to that of methanogenic HdrA (mHdrA) which binds the electron-bifurcating flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), the heart of the HdrABC-[NiFe]-hydrogenase catalyzed reaction. Each sHdrA homodimer carries two FADs and two [4Fe-4S] clusters being linked by electron conductivity. Redox titrations monitored by electron paramagnetic resonance and visible spectroscopy revealed a redox potential between -203 and -188 mV for the [4Fe-4S] center. The potentials for the FADH•/FADH- and FAD/FADH• pairs reside between -174 and -156 mV and between -81 and -19 mV, respectively. The resulting stable semiquinone FADH• species already detectable in the visible and electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of the as-isolated state of sHdrA is incompatible with basic principles of flavin-based electron bifurcation such that the sHdr complex does not apply this new mode of energy coupling. The inverted one-electron FAD redox potentials of sHdr and mHdr are clearly reflected in the different FAD-polypeptide interactions. According to this finding and the assumption that the sHdr complex forms an asymmetric HdrAA'B1C1B2C2 hexamer, we tentatively propose a mechanism that links protein-bound sulfane oxidation to sulfite on HdrB1 with NAD+ reduction via lipoamide disulfide reduction on HdrB2. The FAD of HdrA thereby serves as an electron storage unit. DATABASE: Structural data are available in PDB database under the accession number 6TJR.
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- Corvin Ernst
- Institut für Mikrobiologie & Biotechnologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie & Biotechnologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie & Biotechnologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Xing C, Chen J, Zheng X, Chen L, Chen M, Wang L, Li X. Functional metagenomic exploration identifies novel prokaryotic copper resistance genes from the soil microbiome. Metallomics 2020; 12:387-395. [PMID: 31942889 DOI: 10.1039/c9mt00273a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Functional metagenomics is a premise-free approach for exploring metal resistance genes, enabling more profound effects on the development of bioremediation tools than pure culture based selection. Six soil metagenomic libraries were screened for copper (Cu) resistance genes in the current study through conventional functional genomics. Clones from the six metagenomic libraries were randomly selected from solid medium supplied with Cu, resulting in 411 Cu resistance clones. Thirty-five clones with the strongest Cu resistance were sequenced and 12 unique sequences harboring 25 putative open reading frames were obtained. It is inferred by bioinformatic analysis that putative genes carried by these recombinant plasmids probably function in the pathways of responding to Cu stress, including energy metabolism, integral components of membrane, ion transport/chelation, protein/amino acid metabolism, carbohydrate/fatty acid metabolism, signal transduction and DNA binding. The sequenced clones were re-transformed into Escherichia coli strain DH5α, and the host's biomass and the metal sorption under Cu stress were subsequently determined. The results showed that the biomass of eight of the clones was significantly increased, whereas four of them were significantly reduced. A negative correlation (R = 0.86) was found between the biomass and Cu sorption capacity. The 12 positive clones were further transferred into a Cu-sensitive E. coli strain (ΔCopA), among which nine restored the host's Cu resistance substantially. The Cu resistant genes explored in this study by functional metagenomics possess a potential capacity for developing novel bioremediation strategies, and the findings imply a vast diversity of microbial Cu resistance genetic factors in soil yet to be discovered.
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- Chao Xing
- Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Centre for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, China.
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Tanabe TS, Leimkühler S, Dahl C. The functional diversity of the prokaryotic sulfur carrier protein TusA. Adv Microb Physiol 2019; 75:233-277. [PMID: 31655739 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2019.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Persulfide groups participate in a wide array of biochemical pathways and are chemically very versatile. The TusA protein has been identified as a central element supplying and transferring sulfur as persulfide to a number of important biosynthetic pathways, like molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis or thiomodifications in nucleosides of tRNAs. In recent years, it has furthermore become obvious that this protein is indispensable for the oxidation of sulfur compounds in the cytoplasm. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that different TusA protein variants exists in certain organisms, that have evolved to pursue specific roles in cellular pathways. The specific TusA-like proteins thereby cannot replace each other in their specific roles and are rather specific to one sulfur transfer pathway or shared between two pathways. While certain bacteria like Escherichia coli contain several copies of TusA-like proteins, in other bacteria like Allochromatium vinosum a single copy of TusA is present with an essential role for this organism. Here, we give an overview on the multiple roles of the various TusA-like proteins in sulfur transfer pathways in different organisms to shed light on the remaining mysteries of this versatile protein.
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Hedrich S, Johnson DB. Aerobic and anaerobic oxidation of hydrogen by acidophilic bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2013; 349:40-5. [PMID: 24117601 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2013] [Revised: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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While many prokaryotic species are known to use hydrogen as an electron donor to support their growth, this trait has only previously been reported for two acidophilic bacteria, Hydrogenobaculum acidophilum (in the presence of reduced sulfur) and Acidithiobacillus (At.) ferrooxidans. To test the hypothesis that hydrogen may be utilized more widely by acidophilic bacteria, 38 strains of acidophilic bacteria, including representatives of 20 designated and four proposed species, were screened for their abilities to grow via the dissimilatory oxidation of hydrogen. Growth was demonstrated in several species of acidophiles that also use other inorganic electron donors (ferrous iron and sulfur) but in none of the obligately heterotrophic species tested. Strains of At. ferrooxidans, At. ferridurans and At. caldus, grew chemolithotrophically on hydrogen, though those of At. thiooxidans and At. ferrivorans did not. Growth was also observed with Sulfobacillus acidophilus, Sb. benefaciens and Sb. thermosulfidooxidans, though not with other iron-oxidizing Firmicutes. Similarly, Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans grew on hydrogen, closely related acidophilic actinobacteria did not. Growth yields of At. ferrooxidans and At. ferridurans grown aerobically on hydrogen (c. 10(10) cells mL(-1) ) were far greater than typically obtained using other electron donors. Several species also grew anaerobically by coupling hydrogen oxidation to the reduction of ferric iron.
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- Sabrina Hedrich
- School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
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He Z, Li Y, Zhou P, Liu S. Cloning and heterologous expression of a sulfur oxygenase/reductase gene from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Acidianus sp. S5 in Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2000; 193:217-21. [PMID: 11111027 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2000.tb09427.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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A thermoacidophilic, obligately chemolithotrophic, facultatively aerobic archaebacterium, Acidianus sp. S5, was isolated from acidothermal springs in southwest China. The sulfur oxygenase/reductase (SOR) gene of Acidianus sp. S5 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Several primers were designed and successfully applied for detection and cloning of the sor gene. A 3.7-kb EcoRI fragment containing the sor gene and three neighboring open reading frames was sequenced. Sequence analysis indicated that the sor gene of Acidianus sp. S5 showed 81% identity to the sor gene of Acidianus ambivalens. E. coli cells carrying the sor gene on pBV220SOR were able to overproduce SOR upon a temperature shift from 30 to 42 degrees C. SOR produced in E. coli catalyzes the oxidation of elemental sulfur and concomitant production of sulfite, thiosulfate and hydrogen sulfide. The recombinant enzyme exhibits the same catalytic properties as the one from Acidianus S5.
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- Z He
- State Key Laboratory of Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, PR China
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Hedderich R, Klimmek O, Kröger A, Dirmeier R, Keller M, Stetter KO. Anaerobic respiration with elemental sulfur and with disulfides. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1998. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1998.tb00376.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Canganella F, Jones WJ. Fermentation studies with thermophilicArchaea in pure culture and in syntrophy with a thermophilic methanogen. Curr Microbiol 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01573209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kozyavkin S, Krah R, Gellert M, Stetter K, Lake J, Slesarev A. A reverse gyrase with an unusual structure. A type I DNA topoisomerase from the hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri is a two-subunit protein. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)78094-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Durovic P, Kutay U, Schleper C, Dennis PP. Strain identification and 5S rRNA gene characterization of the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:514-7. [PMID: 8288546 PMCID: PMC205076 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.2.514-517.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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A commonly used laboratory Sulfolobus strain has been unambiguously identified as Sulfolobus acidocaldarius DSM639. The 5S rRNA gene from this strain was cloned and sequenced. It differs at 17 of 124 positions from the identical 5S rRNA sequences from Sulfolobus solfataricus and a strain apparently misidentified as S. acidocaldarius. Analysis of the transcripts from the 5S rRNA gene failed to identify any precursor extending a significant distance beyond the 5' or 3' boundary of the 5S rRNA-coding sequence. This result suggests that the primary transcript of the 5S rRNA gene corresponds in length (within 1 or 2 nucleotides) to the mature 5S rRNA sequence found in 50S ribosomal subunits.
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- P Durovic
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Segerer AH, Burggraf S, Fiala G, Huber G, Huber R, Pley U, Stetter KO. Life in hot springs and hydrothermal vents. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 1993; 23:77-90. [PMID: 11536528 DOI: 10.1007/bf01581992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hot springs and hydrothermal systems occurring within volcanic areas are inhabited by hyperthermophilic microorganisms, some of which grow at temperatures up to 110 degrees C. Hyperthermophiles grow anaerobically or aerobically by diverse metabolic types. Within the high temperature ecosystems, primary production is independent from solar energy.
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- A H Segerer
- Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie, Universitat Regensburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Pease TK, Van Vleet ES, Barre JS. Diphytanyl glycerol ether distributions in sediments of the Orca Basin. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 1992; 56:3469-3479. [PMID: 11540108 DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(92)90391-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Archaebacterially produced diphytanyl glycerol ether (DPGE) was examined in core sediments from the Orca Basin, an anoxic hypersaline basin in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, to observe its spatial variability and potential origin. A differential extraction protocol was employed to quantify the isopranyl glycerol ethers associated with unbound, intermediate-bound, and kerogen-bound lipid fractions. Archaebacterial lipids were evident at all depths for the unbound and intermediate-bound fractions. Concentrations of DPGE ranged from 0.51 to 2.91 micrograms/g dry sediment at the surface and showed secondary maxima deeper in basin sediments. Intermediate-bound DPGE concentrations exhibited an inverse relationship to unbound DPGE concentrations. Kerogen-bound DPGE concentrations were normally below detection limits. Earlier studies describing the general homogeneity of lipid components within the overlying brine and at the brine/seawater interface suggest that the large-scale sedimentary DPGE variations observed in this study result from spatial and temporal variations in in situ production by methanogenic or extremely halophilic archaebacteria.
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- T K Pease
- Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg 33701, USA
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Bouthier de la Tour C, Portemer C, Nadal M, Stetter KO, Forterre P, Duguet M. Reverse gyrase, a hallmark of the hyperthermophilic archaebacteria. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:6803-8. [PMID: 2174859 PMCID: PMC210796 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.12.6803-6808.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Investigation of the presence of a reverse gyrase-like activity in archaebacteria revealed wide distribution of this activity in hyperthermophilic species, including methanogens and sulfur-dependent organisms. In contrast, no reverse gyrase activity was detected in mesophilic and moderately thermophilic organisms, which exhibited only an ATP-independent activity of DNA relaxation. These results suggest that the presence of reverse gyrase in archaebacteria is tightly linked to the high growth temperatures of these organisms. With respect to antigenic properties, the enzyme appeared similar among members of the genus Sulfolobus. In contrast, no close antigenic relatedness was found between the reverse gyrase of members of the order Sulfolobales and that of the other hyperthermophilic organisms.
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- C Bouthier de la Tour
- Laboratoire d'Enzymologie des Acides Nucléiques, URA 554 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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Le Faou A, Rajagopal BS, Daniels L, Fauque G. Thiosulfate, polythionates and elemental sulfur assimilation and reduction in the bacterial world. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1990; 6:351-81. [PMID: 2123394 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1990.tb04107.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Among sulfur compounds, thiosulfate and polythionates are present at least transiently in many environments. These compounds have a similar chemical structure and their metabolism appears closely related. They are commonly used as energy sources for photoautotrophic or chemolithotrophic microorganisms, but their assimilation has been seldom studied and their importance in bacterial physiology is not well understood. Almost all bacterial strains are able to cleave these compounds since they possess thiosulfate sulfur transferase, thiosulfate reductase or S-sulfocysteine synthase activities. However, the role of these enzymes in the assimilation of thiosulfate or polythionates has not always been clearly established. Elemental sulfur is, on the contrary, very common in the environment. It is an energy source for sulfur-reducing eubacteria and archaebacteria and many sulfur-oxidizing archaebacteria. A phenomenon still not well understood is the 'excessive assimilatory sulfur metabolism' as observed in methanogens which perform a sulfur reduction which exceeds their anabolic needs without any apparent benefit. In heterotrophs, assimilation of elemental sulfur is seldom described and it is uncertain whether this process actually has a physiological significance. Thus, reduction of thiosulfate and elemental sulfur is a common but incompletely understood feature among bacteria. These activities could give bacteria a selective advantage, but further investigations are needed to clarify this possibility. Presence of thiosulfate, polythionates and sulfur reductase activities does not imply obligatorily that these activities play a role in thiosulfate, polythionates or sulfur assimilation as these compounds could be merely intermediates in bacterial metabolism. The possibility also exists that the assimilation of these sulfur compounds is just a side effect of an enzymatic activity with a completely different function. As long as these questions remain unanswered, our understanding of sulfur and thiosulfate metabolism will remain incomplete.
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- A Le Faou
- Laboratoire de Bactériologie de la Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France
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Zillig W, Holz I, Janekovic D, Klenk HP, Imsel E, Trent J, Wunderl S, Forjaz VH, Coutinho R, Ferreira T. Hyperthermus butylicus, a hyperthermophilic sulfur-reducing archaebacterium that ferments peptides. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:3959-65. [PMID: 2113915 PMCID: PMC213380 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.7.3959-3965.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The hyperthermophilic peptide-fermenting sulfur archaebacterium Hyperthermus butylicus was isolated from the sea floor of a solfataric habitat with temperatures of up to 112 degrees C on the coast of the island of São Miguel, Azores. The organism grows at up to 108 degrees C, grows optimally between 95 and 106 degrees C at 17 g of NaCl per liter and pH 7.0, utilizes peptide mixtures as carbon and energy sources, and forms H2S from elemental sulfur and molecular hydrogen as a growth-stimulating accessory energy source but not by sulfur respiration. The same fermentation products, CO2, 1-butanol, acetic acid, phenylacetic acid, and a trace of hydroxyphenylacetic acid, are formed both with and without of S0 and H2. Its ether lipids, the absence of a mureine sacculus, the nature of the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and phylogenetic classification by DNA-rRNA cross-hybridization characterize H. butylicus as part of a novel genus of the major branch of archaebacteria comprising the orders Thermoproteales and Sulfolobales, representing a particularly long lineage bifurcating with the order Sulfolobales above the branching off of the genus Thermoproteus and distinct from the genera Desulfurococcus and Pyrodictium.
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- W Zillig
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany
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Kletzin A. Coupled enzymatic production of sulfite, thiosulfate, and hydrogen sulfide from sulfur: purification and properties of a sulfur oxygenase reductase from the facultatively anaerobic archaebacterium Desulfurolobus ambivalens. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:1638-43. [PMID: 2493451 PMCID: PMC209792 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.3.1638-1643.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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From aerobically grown cells of the extremely thermophilic, facultatively anaerobic chemolithoautotrophic archaebacterium Desulfurolobus ambivalens (DSM 3772), a soluble oxygenase reductase (SOR) was purified which was not detectable in anaerobically grown cells. In the presence of oxygen but not under a hydrogen atmosphere, the enzyme simultaneously produced sulfite, thiosulfate, and hydrogen sulfide from sulfur. Nonenzymatic control experiments showed that thiosulfate was produced mainly in a chemical reaction between sulfite and sulfur. The maximum specific activity of the purified SOR in sulfite production was 10.6 mumol/mg of protein at pH 7.4 and 85 degrees C. The ratio of sulfite to hydrogen sulfide production was 5:4 in the presence of zinc ions. The temperature range of enzyme activity was 50 to 108 degrees C, with a maximum at 85 degrees C. The molecular mass of the native SOR was 550 kilodaltons, determined by gel filtration. It consisted of identical subunits with an apparent molecular mass of 40 kilodaltons in sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. The particle diameter in electron micrographs was 15 /+- 1.5 nm. The enzyme activity was inhibited by the thiol-binding reagents p-chloromercuribenzoic acid, N-ethyl maleimide, and 2-iodoacetic acid and by flavin adenine dinucleotide, Fe3+, and Fe2+. It was not affected by CN-, N3-, or reduced glutathione.
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- A Kletzin
- Max Planck Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany
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Kräutler B, Kohler HP, Stupperich E. 5'-Methylbenzimidazolyl-cobamides are the corrinoids from some sulfate-reducing and sulfur-metabolizing bacteria. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 176:461-9. [PMID: 3416881 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14303.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The sulfate-reducing bacteria Desulfobacterium autotrophicum, Desulfobulbus propionicus and Archaeoglobus fulgidus (VC-16) and the sulfur-metabolizing archaebacteria Desulfurolobus ambivalens and Thermoplasma acidophilum were found to contain considerable amounts of corrinoids, that were isolated and crystallized in their Co beta-cyano form. In three other sulfur-metabolizing archaebacteria, Thermoproteus neutrophilus, Pyrodictium occultum and Staphylothermus marinus significant amounts of corrinoids were not detected under the isolation methods used. The samples from the three sulfate-reducers were identified with Co alpha-[alpha-(5'-methylbenzimidazolyl)]-Co beta-cyanocobamide. This corrinoid was also obtained from a 5-methylbenzimidazole-supplemented Propionibacterium fermentation and was structurally characterized by ultraviolet/visible, CD, fast-atom-bombardment MS, 1H-and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. Also the major corrinoid from T. acidophilum was (tentatively) analyzed as a 5'-methylbenzimidazolyl-cobamide, whereas the main corrinoid from D. ambivalens was indicated to be vitamin B12 (a 5',6'-dimethylbenzimidazolyl-cobamide). The 5'-methylbenzimidazolylcobamides are found here as the common corrins of some sulfate-reducing and sulfur-metabolizing bacteria. The structural diversity due to the differing nucleotide bases of the corrins examined here and in methanogenic and acetogenic bacteria appears not to correlate to the biological function(s) of the corrins, but rather to be determined by biosynthetic properties of these organisms under natural growth conditions.
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- B Kräutler
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie der ETH, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
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Danson MJ. Archaebacteria: the comparative enzymology of their central metabolic pathways. Adv Microb Physiol 1988; 29:165-231. [PMID: 3132816 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2911(08)60348-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- M J Danson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bath, England
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- W D Reiter
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried bei München, Federal Republic of Germany
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- M De Rosa
- Istituto di Biochimica delle Macromolecole, I Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia Dell'Università di Napoli, Italia
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Ellermann J, Kobelt A, Pfaltz A, Thauer RK. On the role of N-7-mercaptoheptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine (component B) in the enzymatic reduction of methyl-coenzyme M to methane. FEBS Lett 1987; 220:358-62. [PMID: 3111890 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)80846-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The reduction of methyl-coenzyme M (CH3SCoM) to methane in methanogenic bacteria is dependent on component B (N-7-mercaptoheptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, HSHTP). We report here that S-methyl-component B (N-7-(methylthio)heptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, CH3SHTP) can substitute for neither CH3SCoM nor HSHTP in the methyl-CoM reductase reaction. Rather, CH3SHTP proved to be an inhibitor competitive with HSHTP (apparent Ki = 6 microM) and noncompetitive with CH3SCoM. These results make it very unlikely that HSHTP functions as a methyl group carrier. A role for HSHTP as direct electron donor for CH3SCoM reduction to CH4 is proposed.
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Fiala G, Stetter KO. Pyrococcus furiosus sp. nov. represents a novel genus of marine heterotrophic archaebacteria growing optimally at 100�C. Arch Microbiol 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00413027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 669] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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