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Morita Y, Yoshida A, Ye S, Tomita T, Yoshida M, Kosono S, Nishiyama M. Protein-protein interaction-mediated regulation of lysine biosynthesis of Thermus thermophilus through the function-unknown protein LysV. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2023; 69:91-101. [PMID: 37357393 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2023.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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Thermus thermophilus biosynthesizes lysine via α-aminoadipate as an intermediate using the amino-group carrier protein, LysW, to transfer the attached α-aminoadipate and its derivatives to biosynthetic enzymes. A gene named lysV, which encodes a hypothetical protein similar to LysW, is present in the lysine biosynthetic gene cluster. Although the knockout of lysV did not affect lysine auxotrophy, lysV homologs are conserved in the lysine biosynthetic gene clusters of microorganisms belonging to the phylum Deinococcus-Thermus, suggesting a functional role for LysV in lysine biosynthesis. Pulldown assays and crosslinking experiments detected interactions between LysV and all of the biosynthetic enzymes requiring LysW for reactions, and the activities of most of all these enzymes were affected by LysV. These results suggest that LysV modulates the lysine biosynthesis through protein-protein interactions.
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- Yutaro Morita
- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
- Chemical Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
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Wu Y, Zhang J, Wang B, Zhang Y, Li H, Liu Y, Yin J, He D, Luo H, Gan F, Tang B, Tang XF. Dissecting the Arginine and Lysine Biosynthetic Pathways and Their Relationship in Haloarchaeon Natrinema gari J7-2 via Endogenous CRISPR-Cas System-Based Genome Editing. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0028823. [PMID: 37347159 PMCID: PMC10433800 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00288-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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The evolutionary relationship between arginine and lysine biosynthetic pathways has been well established in bacteria and hyperthermophilic archaea but remains largely unknown in haloarchaea. Here, the endogenous CRISPR-Cas system was harnessed to edit arginine and lysine biosynthesis-related genes in the haloarchaeon Natrinema gari J7-2. The ΔargW, ΔargX, ΔargB, and ΔargD mutant strains display an arginine auxotrophic phenotype, while the ΔdapB mutant shows a lysine auxotrophic phenotype, suggesting that strain J7-2 utilizes the ArgW-mediated pathway and the diaminopimelate (DAP) pathway to synthesize arginine and lysine, respectively. Unlike the ArgD in Escherichia coli acting as a bifunctional aminotransferase in both the arginine biosynthesis pathway and the DAP pathway, the ArgD in strain J7-2 participates only in arginine biosynthesis. Meanwhile, in strain J7-2, the function of argB cannot be compensated for by its evolutionary counterpart ask in the DAP pathway. Moreover, strain J7-2 cannot utilize α-aminoadipate (AAA) to synthesize lysine via the ArgW-mediated pathway, in contrast to hyperthermophilic archaea that employ a bifunctional LysW-mediated pathway to synthesize arginine (or ornithine) and lysine from glutamate and AAA, respectively. Additionally, the replacement of a 5-amino-acid signature motif responsible for substrate specificity of strain J7-2 ArgX with that of its hyperthermophilic archaeal homologs cannot endow the ΔdapB mutant with the ability to biosynthesize lysine from AAA. The in vitro analysis shows that strain J7-2 ArgX acts on glutamate rather than AAA. These results suggest that the arginine and lysine biosynthetic pathways of strain J7-2 are highly specialized during evolution. IMPORTANCE Due to their roles in amino acid metabolism and close evolutionary relationship, arginine and lysine biosynthetic pathways represent interesting models for probing functional specialization of metabolic routes. The current knowledge with respect to arginine and lysine biosynthesis is limited for haloarchaea compared to that for bacteria and hyperthermophilic archaea. Our results demonstrate that the haloarchaeon Natrinema gari J7-2 employs the ArgW-mediated pathway and the DAP pathway for arginine and lysine biosynthesis, respectively, and the two pathways are functionally independent of each other; meanwhile, ArgX is a key determinant of substrate specificity of the ArgW-mediated pathway in strain J7-2. This study provides new clues about haloarchaeal amino acid metabolism and confirms the convenience and efficiency of endogenous CRISPR-Cas system-based genome editing in haloarchaea.
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- Yi Wu
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Cooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education & Hubei Province), Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Cooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education & Hubei Province), Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Cooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education & Hubei Province), Wuhan, China
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Crystal structure of l -glutamate N -acetyltransferase ArgA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2017; 1865:1800-1807. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2017.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Yoshida A, Tomita T, Atomi H, Kuzuyama T, Nishiyama M. Lysine Biosynthesis of Thermococcus kodakarensis with the Capacity to Function as an Ornithine Biosynthetic System. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:21630-21643. [PMID: 27566549 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.743021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We recently discovered a biosynthetic system using a novel amino group carrier protein called LysW for lysine biosynthesis via α-aminoadipate (AAA), and revealed that this system is also utilized in the biosynthesis of arginine by Sulfolobus In the present study, we focused on the biosynthesis of lysine and ornithine in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis, and showed that their biosynthesis is accomplished by a single set of metabolic enzymes. We also determined the crystal structure of the LysX family protein from T. kodakarensis, which catalyzes the conjugation of LysW with either AAA or glutamate, in a complex with LysW-γ-AAA. This crystal structure is the first example to show how LysX recognizes AAA as a substrate and provides a structural basis for the bifunctionality of the LysX family protein from T. kodakarensis Based on comparisons with other LysX family proteins, we propose a mechanism for substrate recognition and its relationship with molecular evolution among LysX family proteins, which have different substrate specificities.
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- Ayako Yoshida
- From the Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657
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- From the Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657
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- the Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, and.,the Japan Science and Technology Agency, CREST, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076 Japan
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- From the Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657
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- From the Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657,
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Early investigations on arginine biosynthesis brought to light basic features of metabolic regulation. The most significant advances of the last 10 to 15 years concern the arginine repressor, its structure and mode of action in both E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium, the sequence analysis of all arg structural genes in E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium, the resulting evolutionary inferences, and the dual regulation of the carAB operon. This review provides an overall picture of the pathways, their interconnections, the regulatory circuits involved, and the resulting interferences between arginine and polyamine biosynthesis. Carbamoylphosphate is a precursor common to arginine and the pyrimidines. In both Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it is produced by a single synthetase, carbamoylphosphate synthetase (CPSase), with glutamine as the physiological amino group donor. This situation contrasts with the existence of separate enzymes specific for arginine and pyrimidine biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis and fungi. Polyamine biosynthesis has been particularly well studied in E. coli, and the cognate genes have been identified in the Salmonella genome as well, including those involved in transport functions. The review summarizes what is known about the enzymes involved in the arginine pathway of E. coli and S. enterica serovar Typhimurium; homologous genes were identified in both organisms, except argF (encoding a supplementary OTCase), which is lacking in Salmonella. Several examples of putative enzyme recruitment (homologous enzymes performing analogous functions) are also presented.
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Hernández VM, Girard L, Hernández-Lucas I, Vázquez A, Ortíz-Ortíz C, Díaz R, Dunn MF. Genetic and biochemical characterization of arginine biosynthesis in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021. Microbiology (Reading) 2015; 161:1671-1682. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Victor M. Hernández
- Programa de Genómica Funcional de Procariotes, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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- Programa de Dinámica Genómica, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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- Programa de Genómica Funcional de Procariotes, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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- Programa de Genómica Funcional de Procariotes, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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- Programa de Genómica Funcional de Procariotes, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos C. P. 62210, Mexico
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Lysine and arginine biosyntheses mediated by a common carrier protein in Sulfolobus. Nat Chem Biol 2013; 9:277-83. [DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2012] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Improvement of l-Arginine Production by Overexpression of a Bifunctional Ornithine Acetyltransferase in Corynebacterium crenatum. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2011; 165:845-55. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-011-9302-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2010] [Accepted: 06/01/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Horie A, Tomita T, Saiki A, Kono H, Taka H, Mineki R, Fujimura T, Nishiyama C, Kuzuyama T, Nishiyama M. Discovery of proteinaceous N-modification in lysine biosynthesis of Thermus thermophilus. Nat Chem Biol 2009; 5:673-9. [DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2009] [Accepted: 05/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Brosig A, Nesper J, Welte W, Diederichs K. Expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of an outer membrane protein from Thermus thermophilus HB27. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2008; 64:533-6. [PMID: 18540069 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309108013602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2008] [Accepted: 05/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The cell envelope of the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus is multilayered and includes an outer membrane with integral outer membrane proteins that are not well characterized. The hypothetical protein TTC0834 from T. thermophilus HB27 was identified as a 22 kDa outer membrane protein containing eight predicted beta-strands. TTC0834 was expressed with an N-terminal His tag in T. thermophilus HB8 and detected in the S-layer/outer membrane envelope fraction. His-TTC0834 was purified and crystallized under various conditions. Native data sets were collected to 3.2 A resolution and the best diffracting crystals belonged to space group P3(1)21 or P3(2)21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 166.67, c = 97.53 A.
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- Alexander Brosig
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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Xu Y, Labedan B, Glansdorff N. Surprising arginine biosynthesis: a reappraisal of the enzymology and evolution of the pathway in microorganisms. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2007; 71:36-47. [PMID: 17347518 PMCID: PMC1847373 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00032-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Major aspects of the pathway of de novo arginine biosynthesis via acetylated intermediates in microorganisms must be revised in light of recent enzymatic and genomic investigations. The enzyme N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS), which used to be considered responsible for the first committed step of the pathway, is present in a limited number of bacterial phyla only and is absent from Archaea. In many Bacteria, shorter proteins related to the Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase family appear to acetylate l-glutamate; some are clearly similar to the C-terminal, acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) binding domain of classical NAGS, while others are more distantly related. Short NAGSs can be single gene products, as in Mycobacterium spp. and Thermus spp., or fused to the enzyme catalyzing the last step of the pathway (argininosuccinase), as in members of the Alteromonas-Vibrio group. How these proteins bind glutamate remains to be determined. In some Bacteria, a bifunctional ornithine acetyltransferase (i.e., using both acetylornithine and acetyl-CoA as donors of the acetyl group) accounts for glutamate acetylation. In many Archaea, the enzyme responsible for glutamate acetylation remains elusive, but possible connections with a novel lysine biosynthetic pathway arose recently from genomic investigations. In some Proteobacteria (notably Xanthomonadaceae) and Bacteroidetes, the carbamoylation step of the pathway appears to involve N-acetylornithine or N-succinylornithine rather than ornithine. The product N-acetylcitrulline is deacetylated by an enzyme that is also involved in the provision of ornithine from acetylornithine; this is an important metabolic function, as ornithine itself can become essential as a source of other metabolites. This review insists on the biochemical and evolutionary implications of these findings.
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- Ying Xu
- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, CNRS UMR 8621, Université Paris Sud, Bâtiment 400, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Xu Y, Glansdorff N, Labedan B. Bioinformatic analysis of an unusual gene-enzyme relationship in the arginine biosynthetic pathway among marine gamma proteobacteria: implications concerning the formation of N-acetylated intermediates in prokaryotes. BMC Genomics 2006; 7:4. [PMID: 16409639 PMCID: PMC1382215 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2005] [Accepted: 01/12/2006] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background The N-acetylation of L-glutamate is regarded as a universal metabolic strategy to commit glutamate towards arginine biosynthesis. Until recently, this reaction was thought to be catalyzed by either of two enzymes: (i) the classical N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS, gene argA) first characterized in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa several decades ago and also present in vertebrates, or (ii) the bifunctional version of ornithine acetyltransferase (OAT, gene argJ) present in Bacteria, Archaea and many Eukaryotes. This paper focuses on a new and surprising aspect of glutamate acetylation. We recently showed that in Moritella abyssi and M. profunda, two marine gamma proteobacteria, the gene for the last enzyme in arginine biosynthesis (argH) is fused to a short sequence that corresponds to the C-terminal, N-acetyltransferase-encoding domain of NAGS and is able to complement an argA mutant of E. coli. Very recently, other authors identified in Mycobacterium tuberculosis an independent gene corresponding to this short C-terminal domain and coding for a new type of NAGS. We have investigated the two prokaryotic Domains for patterns of gene-enzyme relationships in the first committed step of arginine biosynthesis. Results The argH-A fusion, designated argH(A), and discovered in Moritella was found to be present in (and confined to) marine gamma proteobacteria of the Alteromonas- and Vibrio-like group. Most of them have a classical NAGS with the exception of Idiomarina loihiensis and Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis which nevertheless can grow in the absence of arginine and therefore appear to rely on the arg(A) sequence for arginine biosynthesis. Screening prokaryotic genomes for virtual argH-X 'fusions' where X stands for a homologue of arg(A), we retrieved a large number of Bacteria and several Archaea, all of them devoid of a classical NAGS. In the case of Thermus thermophilus and Deinococcus radiodurans, the arg(A)-like sequence clusters with argH in an operon-like fashion. In this group of sequences, we find the short novel NAGS of the type identified in M. tuberculosis. Among these organisms, at least Thermus, Mycobacterium and Streptomyces species appear to rely on this short NAGS version for arginine biosynthesis. Conclusion The gene-enzyme relationship for the first committed step of arginine biosynthesis should now be considered in a new perspective. In addition to bifunctional OAT, nature appears to implement at least three alternatives for the acetylation of glutamate. It is possible to propose evolutionary relationships between them starting from the same ancestral N-acetyltransferase domain. In M. tuberculosis and many other bacteria, this domain evolved as an independent enzyme, whereas it fused either with a carbamate kinase fold to give the classical NAGS (as in E. coli) or with argH as in marine gamma proteobacteria. Moreover, there is an urgent need to clarify the current nomenclature since the same gene name argA has been used to designate structurally different entities. Clarifying the confusion would help to prevent erroneous genomic annotation.
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- Ying Xu
- Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5000, USA
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- Microbiology and Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, CNRS UMR 8621, Université Paris Sud, Bâtiment 400, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Takahara K, Akashi K, Yokota A. Purification and characterization of glutamate N-acetyltransferase involved in citrulline accumulation in wild watermelon. FEBS J 2005; 272:5353-64. [PMID: 16218965 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04933.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Citrulline is an efficient hydroxyl radical scavenger that can accumulate at concentrations of up to 30 mm in the leaves of wild watermelon during drought in the presence of strong light; however, the mechanism of this accumulation remains unclear. In this study, we characterized wild watermelon glutamate N-acetyltransferase (CLGAT) that catalyses the transacetylation reaction between acetylornithine and glutamate to form acetylglutamate and ornithine, thereby functioning in the first and fifth steps in citrulline biosynthesis. CLGAT enzyme purified 7000-fold from leaves was composed of two subunits with different N-terminal amino acid sequences. Analysis of the corresponding cDNA revealed that these two subunits have molecular masses of 21.3 and 23.5 kDa and are derived from a single precursor polypeptide, suggesting that the CLGAT precursor is cleaved autocatalytically at the conserved ATML motif, as in other glutamate N-acetyltransferases of microorganisms. A green fluorescence protein assay revealed that the first 26-amino acid sequence at the N-terminus of the precursor functions as a chloroplast transit peptide. The CLGAT exhibited thermostability up to 70 degrees C, suggesting an increase in enzyme activity under high leaf temperature conditions during drought/strong-light stresses. Moreover, CLGAT was not inhibited by citrulline or arginine at physiologically relevant high concentrations. These findings suggest that CLGAT can effectively participate in the biosynthesis of citrulline in wild watermelon leaves during drought/strong-light stress.
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- Kentaro Takahara
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Japan
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Elkins J, Kershaw N, Schofield C. X-ray crystal structure of ornithine acetyltransferase from the clavulanic acid biosynthesis gene cluster. Biochem J 2005; 385:565-73. [PMID: 15352873 PMCID: PMC1134730 DOI: 10.1042/bj20040814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The orf6 gene from the clavulanic acid biosynthesis gene cluster encodes an OAT (ornithine acetyltransferase). Similar to other OATs the enzyme has been shown to catalyse the reversible transfer of an acetyl group from N-acetylornithine to glutamate. OATs are Ntn (N-terminal nucleophile) enzymes, but are distinct from the better-characterized Ntn hydrolase enzymes as they catalyse acetyl transfer rather than a hydrolysis reaction. In the present study, we describe the X-ray crystal structure of the OAT, corresponding to the orf6 gene product, to 2.8 A (1 A=0.1 nm) resolution. The larger domain of the structure consists of an alphabetabetaalpha sandwich as in the structures of Ntn hydrolase enzymes. However, differences in the connectivity reveal that OATs belong to a structural family different from that of other structurally characterized Ntn enzymes, with one exception: unexpectedly, the alphabetabetaalpha sandwich of ORF6 (where ORF stands for open reading frame) displays the same fold as an DmpA (L-aminopeptidase D-ala-esterase/amidase from Ochrobactrum anthropi), and so the OATs and DmpA form a new structural subfamily of Ntn enzymes. The structure reveals an alpha2beta2-heterotetrameric oligomerization state in which the intermolecular interface partly defines the active site. Models of the enzyme-substrate complexes suggest a probable oxyanion stabilization mechanism as well as providing insight into how the enzyme binds its two differently charged substrates.
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- Jonathan M. Elkins
- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene Rv2747 encodes a novel 19-kDa ArgA that catalyzes the initial step in L-arginine biosynthesis, namely the conversion of L-glutamate to alpha-N-acetyl-L-glutamate. Initial velocity studies reveal that Rv2747 proceeds through a sequential kinetic mechanism, with K(m) values of 280 mM for L-glutamine and 150 microM for acetyl-coenzyme A and with a k(cat) value of 200 min(-1). Initial velocity studies with L-glutamate showed that even at concentrations of 600 mM, saturation was not observed. Therefore, only a k(cat)/K(m) value of 125 M(-1) min(-1) can be calculated. Inhibition studies reveal that the enzyme is strongly regulated by L-arginine, the end product of the pathway (50% inhibitory concentration, 26 microM). The enzyme was completely inhibited by 500 microM arginine, with a Hill coefficient of 0.60, indicating negatively cooperative binding of L-arginine.
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- James C Errey
- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Lu SE, Soule JD, Gross DC. Characterization of the argA gene required for arginine biosynthesis and syringomycin production by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 69:7273-80. [PMID: 14660376 PMCID: PMC309951 DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.12.7273-7280.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two types of necrosis-inducing lipodepsipeptide toxins, called syringomycin and syringopeptin, are major virulence factors of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae strain B301D. A previous study showed that a locus, called syrA, was required for both syringomycin production and plant pathogenicity, and the syrA locus was speculated to encode a regulator of toxin production. In this study, sequence analysis of the 8-kb genomic DNA fragment that complements the syrA phenotype revealed high conservation among a broad spectrum of fluorescent pseudomonads. The putative protein encoded by open reading frame 4 (ORF4) (1,299 bp) in the syrA locus region exhibited 85% identity to ArgA, which is involved in arginine biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Growth of strain W4S2545, the syrA mutant, required supplementation of N minimal medium with arginine. Similarly, syringomycin production of syrA mutant W4S2545 was restored by the addition of arginine to culture media. Furthermore, the insertion of Tn5 in the genome of the syrA mutant W4S2545 was localized between nucleotides 146 and 147 in ORF4, and syringomycin production was complemented in trans with the wild-type DNA fragment containing intact ORF4. These results demonstrate that the syrA locus is the argA gene of P. syringae pv. syringae and that argA is directly involved in arginine biosynthesis and therefore indirectly affects syringomycin production because of arginine deficiency.
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- Shi-En Lu
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Pauwels K, Abadjieva A, Hilven P, Stankiewicz A, Crabeel M. The N-acetylglutamate synthase/N-acetylglutamate kinase metabolon of Saccharomyces cerevisiae allows co-ordinated feedback regulation of the first two steps in arginine biosynthesis. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:1014-24. [PMID: 12603335 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03477.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which uses the nonlinear pathway of arginine biosynthesis, the first two enzymes, N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS) and N-acetylglutamate kinase (NAGK), are controlled by feedback inhibition. We have previously shown that NAGS and NAGK associate in a complex, essential to synthase activity and protein level [Abadjieva, A., Pauwels, K., Hilven, P. & Crabeel, M. (2001) J. Biol. Chem.276, 42869-42880]. The NAGKs of ascomycetes possess, in addition to the catalytic domain that is shared by all other NAGKs and whose structure has been determined, a C-terminal domain of unknown function and structure. Exploring the role of these two domains in the synthase/kinase interaction, we demonstrate that the ascomycete-specific domain is required to maintain synthase activity and protein level. Previous results had suggested a participation of the third enzyme of the pathway, N-acetylglutamylphosphate reductase, in the metabolon. Here, genetic analyses conducted in yeast at physiological level, or in a heterologous background, clearly demonstrate that the reductase is dispensable for synthase activity and protein level. Most importantly, we show that the arginine feedback regulation of the NAGS and NAGK enzymes is mutually interdependent. First, the kinase becomes less sensitive to arginine feedback inhibition in the absence of the synthase. Second, and as in Neurospora crassa, in a yeast kinase mutant resistant to arginine feedback inhibition, the synthase becomes feedback resistant concomitantly. We conclude that the NAGS/NAGK metabolon promotes the co-ordination of the catalytic activities and feedback regulation of the first two, flux controlling, enzymes of the arginine pathway.
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- Katia Pauwels
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, c/o CERIA-COOVI, Emile Gryson Avenue 1, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium
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Gibert Y, Spada S, Wall JG, Pembroke JT. Cloning and characterisation of the Hint homologue of the thermophile Thermus thermophilus. DNA SEQUENCE : THE JOURNAL OF DNA SEQUENCING AND MAPPING 2002; 12:179-85. [PMID: 11762193 DOI: 10.3109/10425170109080772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Screening of a genomic library of the thermophile Thermus thermophilus revealed a novel thermophilic hint gene, homologues of which are highly conserved in genera from archaea to mammals. Hint belongs to the HIT protein super-family, which contains two broad groups, Fhit, associated with tumour suppression in eukaryotes and Hint with putatitively protein kinase C inhibitory activity. In T. thermophilus the 321 bp gene has a GC content of 67% overall and 94.4% in the third nucleotide position, with unusually no thymine as a wobble base. The gene product, a small highly conserved 11,996 Da predicted soluble cytoplasmic protein, offers an ideal opportunity to investigate thermostabilising amino acid substitutions. Here we report on the characterisation of the novel hint sequence.
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- Y Gibert
- Industrial Biochemistry Group, Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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Kershaw NJ, McNaughton HJ, Hewitson KS, Hernández H, Griffin J, Hughes C, Greaves P, Barton B, Robinson CV, Schofield CJ. ORF6 from the clavulanic acid gene cluster of Streptomyces clavuligerus has ornithine acetyltransferase activity. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2002; 269:2052-9. [PMID: 11985581 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.02853.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The clinically used beta-lactamase inhibitor clavulanic acid is produced by fermentation of Streptomyces clavuligerus. The orf6 gene of the clavulanic acid biosynthetic gene cluster in S. clavuligerus encodes a protein that shows sequence homology to ornithine acetyltransferase (OAT), the fifth enzyme of the arginine biosynthetic pathway. Orf6 was overexpressed in Escherichia coli (at approximately 15% of total soluble protein by SDS/PAGE analysis) indicating it was not toxic to the host cells. The recombinant protein was purified (to > 95% purity) by a one-step technique. Like other OATs it was synthesized as a precursor protein which underwent autocatalytic internal cleavage in E. coli to generate alpha and beta subunits. Cleavage was shown to occur between the alanine and threonine residues in a KGXGMXXPX--(M/L)AT (M/L)L motif conserved within all identified OAT sequences. Gel filtration and native electrophoresis analyses implied that the ORF6 protein was an alpha2beta2 heterotetramer and direct evidence for this came from mass spectrometric analyses. Although anomalous migration of the beta subunit was observed by standard SDS/PAGE analysis, which indicated the presence of two bands (as previously observed for other OATs), mass spectrometric analyses did not reveal any evidence for post-translational modification of the beta subunit. Extended denaturation with SDS before PAGE resulted in observation of a single major beta subunit band. Purified ORF6 was able to catalyse the reversible transfer of an acetyl group from N-acetylornithine to glutamate, but not the formation of N-acetylglutamate from glutamate and acetyl-coenzyme A, nor (detectably) the hydrolysis of N-acetylornithine. Mass spectrometry also revealed the reaction proceeds via acetylation of the beta subunit.
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- Nadia J Kershaw
- Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences and The Dyson Perrins Laboratory, UK
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Miyazaki J, Kobashi N, Fujii T, Nishiyama M, Yamane H. Characterization of a lysK gene as an argE homolog in Thermus thermophilus HB27. FEBS Lett 2002; 512:269-74. [PMID: 11852094 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)02290-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We conducted a chromosome walk to obtain a DNA fragment downstream of lysJ and found an argE homolog in a putative operon composed of lysJ-orfC-orfD-argE homologs. A knockout mutant of the argE homolog showed significantly slow growth on a minimal medium, and the growth was markedly improved by addition of lysine. We therefore termed this gene lysK. Purified LysK protein has deacetylating activities for both N(2)-acetyllysine and N(2)-acetylornithine at almost equal efficiency. These results suggest that lysK which may share an ancestor with argE functions not only for the lysine biosynthesis, but also for arginine biosynthesis in Thermus thermophilus.
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- Junichi Miyazaki
- Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8657, Tokyo, Japan
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Spada S, Gibert Y, Pembroke JT, Wall JG. Isolation and characterisation of the ylmE homologue of Thermus thermophilus. DNA SEQUENCE : THE JOURNAL OF DNA SEQUENCING AND MAPPING 2002; 11:507-14. [PMID: 11696977 DOI: 10.3109/10425170109041334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Screening of a Thermus thermophilus genomic library led to the identification of a homologue of the ylmE gene. ylmE is highly conserved in widely divergent organisms from prokaryotes to mammals, suggesting an important, albeit currently unknown, cellular function. The 633 bp gene has a GC content of 69.2% overall and 90% in the third nucleotide position, while the gene product is predicted to be a soluble cytoplasmic protein of 23,441 Da. It belongs to a family of conserved proteins of unknown function and exhibits amino acid identities ranging from 45% to 28% to the Aquifex aeolicus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae family members, respectively. We speculate that the gene product may be involved in a cellular stress response in T. thermophilus.
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- S Spada
- Industrial Biochemistry Group, Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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Maes T, Vereecke D, Ritsema T, Cornelis K, Thu HN, Van Montagu M, Holsters M, Goethals K. The att locus of Rhodococcus fascians strain D188 is essential for full virulence on tobacco through the production of an autoregulatory compound. Mol Microbiol 2001; 42:13-28. [PMID: 11679063 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02615.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The ability of Rhodococcus fascians strain D188 to provoke leafy gall formation on a variety of plant species is correlated with the linear plasmid pFiD188, on which different pathogenicity loci were identified. The att locus affects the severity of symptom development on tobacco, whereas the fas locus is essential for virulence. To gain insight into the function of the att locus, sequence and expression analyses were performed. The att locus contains nine open reading frames homologous to arginine and beta-lactam biosynthetic genes. att gene expression is transcriptionally induced by leafy gall extracts, but not by extracts of uninfected plants, and depends on the attR gene that encodes a LysR-type transcriptional regulator. The att locus proves to be essential for the formation of inducing factors (IFs) that are present in gall extracts. Because the induction of the fas locus also requires the presence of IFs in gall extracts, the att locus is proposed to play an important role in regulating the expression of the virulence loci of R. fascians.
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- T Maes
- Vakgroep Moleculaire Genetica, Departement Plantengenetica, Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Universiteit Gent, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
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Sanchez R, Roovers M, Glansdorff N. Organization and expression of a Thermus thermophilus arginine cluster: presence of unidentified open reading frames and absence of a Shine-Dalgarno sequence. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:5911-5. [PMID: 11004195 PMCID: PMC94718 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.20.5911-5915.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2000] [Accepted: 07/26/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A group of genes regulated by arginine was found clustered in the order argF-ORF1-argC-argJ-ORF4 between other, as yet uncharacterized, open reading frames (ORFs). Transcription starts were identified immediately upstream from argF and ORF4. Arginine repressed transcription that was initiated at argF but induced transcription of ORF4. The functions of ORF1 and ORF4 are unknown, but analysis of the sequence of ORF4 suggests that it is a membrane protein, possibly involved in transport of arginine or a related metabolite. Mobility shift and DNase I footprinting have revealed specific binding of pure Escherichia coli ArgR to the promoter region of Thermus thermophilus argF. These results suggest that argF transcription is controlled by a repressor homologous to those characterized in enteric bacteria and bacilli. Thermus argF mRNA is devoid of Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequences. However, downstream from the ATG start codon of argF and many other Thermus genes (with or without an SD box), sequences were found to be complementary to nucleotides 1392 to 1409 of Thermus 16S rRNA, suggesting that an mRNA-rRNA base pairing in this region is important for correct translation initiation.
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- R Sanchez
- Department of Microbiology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium
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Marc F, Weigel P, Legrain C, Almeras Y, Santrot M, Glansdorff N, Sakanyan V. Characterization and kinetic mechanism of mono- and bifunctional ornithine acetyltransferases from thermophilic microorganisms. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:5217-26. [PMID: 10931207 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01593.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The argJ gene coding for N2-acetyl-L-ornithine: L-glutamate N-acetyltransferase, the key enzyme involved in the acetyl cycle of L-arginine biosynthesis, has been cloned from thermophilic procaryotes: the archaeon Methanoccocus jannaschii, and the bacteria Thermotoga neapolitana and Bacillus stearothermophilus. Archaeal argJ only complements an Escherichia coli argE mutant (deficient in acetylornithinase, which catalyzes the fifth step in the linear biosynthetic pathway), whereas bacterial genes additionally complement an argA mutant (deficient in N-acetylglutamate synthetase, the first enzyme of the pathway). In keeping with these in vivo data the purified His-tagged ArgJ enzyme of M. jannaschii only catalyzes N2-acetylornithine conversion to ornithine, whereas T. neapolitana and B. stearothermophilus ArgJ also catalyze the conversion of glutamate to N-acetylglutamate using acetylCoA as the acetyl donor. M. jannaschii ArgJ is therefore a monofunctional enzyme, whereas T. neapolitana and B. stearothermophilus encoded ArgJ are bifunctional. Kinetic data demonstrate that in all three thermophilic organisms ArgJ-mediated catalysis follows ping-pong bi-bi kinetic mechanism. Acetylated ArgJ intermediates were detected in semireactions using [14C]acetylCoA or [14C]N2-acetyl-L-glutamate as acetyl donors. In this catalysis L-ornithine acts as an inhibitor; this amino acid therefore appears to be a key regulatory molecule in the acetyl cycle of L-arginine synthesis. Thermophilic ArgJ are synthesized as protein precursors undergoing internal cleavage to generate alpha and beta subunits which appear to assemble to alpha2beta2 heterotetramers in E. coli. The cleavage occurs between alanine and threonine residues within the highly conserved PXM-ATML motif detected in all available ArgJ sequences.
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- F Marc
- FRE-CNRS 2230 Biocatalyse, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, Université de Nantes, France
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Xu Y, Liang Z, Legrain C, Rüger HJ, Glansdorff N. Evolution of arginine biosynthesis in the bacterial domain: novel gene-enzyme relationships from psychrophilic Moritella strains (Vibrionaceae) and evolutionary significance of N-alpha-acetyl ornithinase. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:1609-15. [PMID: 10692366 PMCID: PMC94458 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.6.1609-1615.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the arginine biosynthetic pathway of the vast majority of prokaryotes, the formation of ornithine is catalyzed by an enzyme transferring the acetyl group of N-alpha-acetylornithine to glutamate (ornithine acetyltransferase [OATase]) (argJ encoded). Only two exceptions had been reported-the Enterobacteriaceae and Myxococcus xanthus (members of the gamma and delta groups of the class Proteobacteria, respectively)-in which ornithine is produced from N-alpha-acetylornithine by a deacylase, acetylornithinase (AOase) (argE encoded). We have investigated the gene-enzyme relationship in the arginine regulons of two psychrophilic Moritella strains belonging to the Vibrionaceae, a family phylogenetically related to the Enterobacteriaceae. Most of the arg genes were found to be clustered in one continuous sequence divergently transcribed in two wings, argE and argCBFGH(A) ["H(A)" indicates that the argininosuccinase gene consists of a part homologous to known argH sequences and of a 3' extension able to complement an Escherichia coli mutant deficient in the argA gene, encoding N-alpha-acetylglutamate synthetase, the first enzyme committed to the pathway]. Phylogenetic evidence suggests that this new clustering pattern arose in an ancestor common to Vibrionaceae and Enterobacteriaceae, where OATase was lost and replaced by a deacylase. The AOase and ornithine carbamoyltransferase of these psychrophilic strains both display distinctly cold-adapted activity profiles, providing the first cold-active examples of such enzymes.
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- Y Xu
- Laboratory for Genetics and Microbiology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and Department of Microbiology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium
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Nishida H, Nishiyama M, Kobashi N, Kosuge T, Hoshino T, Yamane H. A prokaryotic gene cluster involved in synthesis of lysine through the amino adipate pathway: a key to the evolution of amino acid biosynthesis. Genome Res 1999; 9:1175-83. [PMID: 10613839 DOI: 10.1101/gr.9.12.1175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In previous studies we determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene cluster containing lys20, hacA (lys4A), hacB (lys4B), orfE, orfF, rimK, argC, and argB of Thermus thermophilus, an extremely thermophilic bacterium. In this study, we characterized the role of each gene in the cluster by gene disruption and examined auxotrophy in the disruptants. All disruptants except for the orfE disruption showed a lysine auxotrophic phenotype. This was surprising because this cluster consists of genes coding for unrelated proteins based on their names, which had been tentatively designated by homology analysis. Although the newly found pathway contains alpha-aminoadipic acid as a lysine biosynthetic intermediate, this pathway is not the same as the eukaryotic one. When each of the gene products was phylogenetically analyzed, we found that genes evolutionarily-related to the lysine biosynthetic genes in T. thermophilus were all present in a hyperthermophilic and anaerobic archaeon, Pyrococcus horikoshii, and formed a gene cluster in a manner similar to that in T. thermophilus. Furthermore, this gene cluster was analogous in part to the present leucine and arginine biosyntheses pathways. This lysine biosynthesis cluster is assumed to be one of the origins of lysine biosynthesis and could therefore become a key to the evolution of amino acid biosynthesis.
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- H Nishida
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
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Hani EK, Ng D, Chan VL. Arginine biosynthesis inCampylobacter jejuniTGH9011: determination of theargCOBDcluster. Can J Microbiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1139/w99-095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Arginine biosynthetic genes from Campylobacter jejuni TGH9011 were cloned by functional complementation of the respective Escherichia coli arginine biosynthetic mutants. Complementation of argA, argB, argC, argD, argE, argF, and argH auxotrophs was accomplished using a pBR322-based C. jejuni TGH9011 plasmid library. By cross-complementation analyses, the first four steps of arginine biosynthesis were shown to be closely linked on the genome. Two additional clones complementing the first (ArgA) and fifth (ArgE) steps in arginine biosynthesis were obtained. Neither recombinant showed linkage to the arg cluster, to each other, nor to other arginine biosynthetic functions by cross-complementation. Genes argF and argH were not linked to other arginine biosynthetic genes by cross-complementation analysis. Restriction enzyme patterns of recombinant plasmids fell into five groups. Group I contained the arg(ABCD) complementing locus. Group II and Group III were the two genetic loci corresponding to the argA and argE complementing genes. Group II contains the hipO gene encoding N-benzoylglycine-amino-acid amidohydrolase, also known as hippurate hydrolase. Group III contains the hipO homolog of C. jejuni. Group IV represents the argF gene. GroupV is the argH gene. Functional complementation of mutations in the first four steps of the arginine biosynthetic pathway was obtained on recombinant plasmid pARGC2. The predicted order of gene complementation was argCargA(argBargD). The sequence of the insert in plasmid pARGC2 revealed direct homologs for argC, argB, and argD. However, sequence analysis of the gene complementing ArgA function in two separate E. coli argA mutants determined that the C. jejuni gene was not a canonical argA gene. The gene complementing the argA defect, which we call argO, showed limited homology to the streptothricin acetyltransferase gene (sat) of Escherichia coli. The flanking open reading frames in pARGC2 showed no homologies to arginine biosynthetic genes. The structure of the argCOBD gene arrangement is discussed with reference to the presence and location of other arginine biosynthetic genes on the genome of C. jejuni and other bacterial organisms.Key words: arginine synthesis, Campylobacter jejuni, arginine biosynthetic genes, gene sequence, gene arrangement.
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Wilquet V, Van de Casteele M. The role of the codon first letter in the relationship between genomic GC content and protein amino acid composition. Res Microbiol 1999; 150:21-32. [PMID: 10096131 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2508(99)80043-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Analysis of the statistical distribution of amino acid compositions within 22 protein families shows that a GC bias generally affects proteins with a variety of functions from the extreme thermophile Thermus. This results in evident enrichment in amino acids of the group L, V, A, P, R and G and underrepresentation of amino acids of the group I, M, F, S, T, C and W. The strong amino acid composition biases noted in Thermus proteins are not related to thermoadaptation; they were also found in mesophilic homologues encoded by GC-rich genes. The results of a comparative analysis on large samples of translated sequences from 30 organisms, representing the three major kingdoms of life and including extremophiles, indicate a universal correlation between the usage of particular amino acids and the genomic GC content. It is concluded that the codon first letter plays a dominant role in translating the genomic GC signature into protein amino acid composition and sequences.
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- V Wilquet
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
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