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Lim SJ, Choi M, Yun I, Lee S, Chang N, Lee CY. Development of Fluorescent Bacteria with Lux and Riboflavin Genes. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24065096. [PMID: 36982169 PMCID: PMC10049116 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Lumazine protein from marine luminescent bacteria of Photobacterium species bind with very high affinity to the fluorescent chromophore 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribitylumazine. The light emission of bacterial luminescent systems is used as a sensitive, rapid, and safe assay for an ever-increasing number of biological systems. Plasmid pRFN4, containing the genes encoding riboflavin from the rib operon of Bacillus subtilis, was designed for the overproduction of lumazine. To construct fluorescent bacteria for use as microbial sensors, novel recombinant plasmids (pRFN4-Pp N-lumP and pRFN4-Pp luxLP N-lumP) were constructed by amplifying the DNA encoding the N-lumP gene (luxL) from P. phosphoreum and the promoter region (luxLP) present upstream of the lux operon of the gene by PCR and ligating into the pRFN4-Pp N-lumP plasmid. A new recombinant plasmid, pRFN4-Pp luxLP-N-lumP, was constructed with the expectation that the fluorescence intensity would be further increased when transformed into Escherichia coli. When this plasmid was transformed into E. coli 43R, the fluorescence intensity of transformants was 500 times greater than that of E. coli alone. As a result, the recombinant plasmid in which the gene encoding N-LumP and DNA containing the lux promoter exhibited expression that was so high as to show fluorescence in single E. coli cells. The fluorescent bacterial systems developed in the present study using lux and riboflavin genes can be utilized in the future as biosensors with high sensitivity and rapid analysis times.
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- Sun-Joo Lim
- Department of Biochemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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Lim S, Oh E, Choi M, Lee E, Lee CY. Generation of Fluorescent Bacteria with the Genes Coding for Lumazine Protein and Riboflavin Biosynthesis. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21134506. [PMID: 34209387 PMCID: PMC8272222 DOI: 10.3390/s21134506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Lumazine protein is a member of the riboflavin synthase superfamily and the intense fluorescence is caused by non-covalently bound to 6,7-dimethyl 8-ribityllumazine. The pRFN4 plasmid, which contains the riboflavin synthesis genes from Bacillus subtilis, was originally designed for overproduction of the fluorescent ligand of 6,7-dimethyl 8-ribityllumazine. To provide the basis for a biosensor based on the lux gene from bioluminescent bacteria of Photobacterium leiognathi, the gene coding for N-terminal domain half of the lumazine protein extending to amino acid 112 (N-LumP) and the gene for whole lumazine protein (W-LumP) from P. leiognathi were introduced by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligated into pRFN4 vector, to construct the recombinant plasmids of N-lumP-pRFN4 and W-lumP-pRFN4 as well as their modified plasmids by insertion of the lux promoter. The expression of the genes in the recombinant plasmids was checked in various Escherichia coli strains, and the fluorescence intensity in Escherichia coli 43R can even be observed in a single cell. These results concerning the co-expression of the genes coding for lumazine protein and for riboflavin synthesis raise the possibility to generate fluorescent bacteria which can be used in the field of bio-imaging.
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Tanet L, Tamburini C, Baumas C, Garel M, Simon G, Casalot L. Bacterial Bioluminescence: Light Emission in Photobacterium phosphoreum Is Not Under Quorum-Sensing Control. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:365. [PMID: 30886606 PMCID: PMC6409340 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Bacterial-bioluminescence regulation is often associated with quorum sensing. Indeed, many studies have been made on this subject and indicate that the expression of the light-emission-involved genes is density dependent. However, most of these studies have concerned two model species, Aliivibrio fischeri and Vibrio campbellii. Very few works have been done on bioluminescence regulation for the other bacterial genera. Yet, according to the large variety of habitats of luminous marine bacteria, it would not be surprising to find different light-regulation systems. In this study, we used Photobacterium phosphoreum ANT-2200, a piezophilic bioluminescent strain isolated from Mediterranean deep-sea waters (2200-m depth). To answer the question of whether or not the bioluminescence of P. phosphoreum ANT-2200 is under quorum-sensing control, we focused on the correlation between growth and light emission through physiological, genomic and, transcriptomic approaches. Unlike A. fischeri and V. campbellii, the light of P. phosphoreum ANT-2200 immediately increases from its initial level. Interestingly, the emitted light increases at much higher rate at the low cell density than it does for higher cell-density values. The expression level of the light-emission-involved genes stays constant all along the exponential growth phase. We also showed that, even when more light is produced, when the strain is cultivated at high hydrostatic pressure, no change in the transcription level of these genes can be detected. Through different experiments and approaches, our results clearly indicate that, under the tested conditions, the genes, directly involved in the bioluminescence in P. phosphoreum ANT-2200, are not controlled at a transcriptomic level. Quite obviously, these results demonstrate that the light emission of the strain is not density dependent, which means not under quorum-sensing control. Through this study, we point out that bacterial-bioluminescence regulation should not, from now on, be always linked with the quorum-sensing control.
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- Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Marseille, France
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Dunlap P. Biochemistry and Genetics of Bacterial Bioluminescence. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2014; 144:37-64. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43385-0_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Kang KS, Kim SY, Lee JH, Nam KS, Lee EH, Lee CY. Spectrofluorometric Properties of N-Terminal Domain of Lumazine Protein from Photobacterium leiognathi. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2013. [DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2013.34.6.1673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Urbanczyk H, Furukawa T, Yamamoto Y, Dunlap PV. Natural replacement of vertically inherited lux-rib genes of Photobacterium aquimaris by horizontally acquired homologues. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2012; 4:412-416. [PMID: 23760826 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00355.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report here the first instance of a complete replacement of vertically inherited luminescence genes by horizontally acquired homologues. Different strains of Photobacterium aquimaris contain homologues of the lux-rib genes that have a different evolutionary history. Strain BS1 from the Black Sea contains a vertically inherited lux-rib operon, which presumably arose in the ancestor of this species, whereas the type strain NBRC 104633(T) , from Sagami Bay, lacks the vertically inherited lux-rib operon and instead carries a complete and functional lux-rib operon acquired horizontally from a bacterium related to Photobacterium mandapamensis. The results indicate that the horizontal acquisition of the lux genes expanded the pan-genome of P. aquimaris, but it did not influence the phylogenetic divergence of this species.
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- Henryk Urbanczyk
- Interdisciplinary Research Organization Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Abbas CA, Sibirny AA. Genetic control of biosynthesis and transport of riboflavin and flavin nucleotides and construction of robust biotechnological producers. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2011; 75:321-60. [PMID: 21646432 PMCID: PMC3122625 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00030-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 243] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Riboflavin [7,8-dimethyl-10-(1'-d-ribityl)isoalloxazine, vitamin B₂] is an obligatory component of human and animal diets, as it serves as the precursor of flavin coenzymes, flavin mononucleotide, and flavin adenine dinucleotide, which are involved in oxidative metabolism and other processes. Commercially produced riboflavin is used in agriculture, medicine, and the food industry. Riboflavin synthesis starts from GTP and ribulose-5-phosphate and proceeds through pyrimidine and pteridine intermediates. Flavin nucleotides are synthesized in two consecutive reactions from riboflavin. Some microorganisms and all animal cells are capable of riboflavin uptake, whereas many microorganisms have distinct systems for riboflavin excretion to the medium. Regulation of riboflavin synthesis in bacteria occurs by repression at the transcriptional level by flavin mononucleotide, which binds to nascent noncoding mRNA and blocks further transcription (named the riboswitch). In flavinogenic molds, riboflavin overproduction starts at the stationary phase and is accompanied by derepression of enzymes involved in riboflavin synthesis, sporulation, and mycelial lysis. In flavinogenic yeasts, transcriptional repression of riboflavin synthesis is exerted by iron ions and not by flavins. The putative transcription factor encoded by SEF1 is somehow involved in this regulation. Most commercial riboflavin is currently produced or was produced earlier by microbial synthesis using special selected strains of Bacillus subtilis, Ashbya gossypii, and Candida famata. Whereas earlier RF overproducers were isolated by classical selection, current producers of riboflavin and flavin nucleotides have been developed using modern approaches of metabolic engineering that involve overexpression of structural and regulatory genes of the RF biosynthetic pathway as well as genes involved in the overproduction of the purine precursor of riboflavin, GTP.
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- Institute of Cell Biology, NAS of Ukraine, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
- University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow 35-601, Poland
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Purification and characterization of dimethylsulfide monooxygenase from Hyphomicrobium sulfonivorans. J Bacteriol 2011; 193:1250-8. [PMID: 21216999 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00977-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dimethylsulfide (DMS) is a volatile organosulfur compound which has been implicated in the biogeochemical cycling of sulfur and in climate control. Microbial degradation is a major sink for DMS. DMS metabolism in some bacteria involves its oxidation by a DMS monooxygenase in the first step of the degradation pathway; however, this enzyme has remained uncharacterized until now. We have purified a DMS monooxygenase from Hyphomicrobium sulfonivorans, which was previously isolated from garden soil. The enzyme is a member of the flavin-linked monooxygenases of the luciferase family and is most closely related to nitrilotriacetate monooxygenases. It consists of two subunits: DmoA, a 53-kDa FMNH₂-dependent monooxygenase, and DmoB, a 19-kDa NAD(P)H-dependent flavin oxidoreductase. Enzyme kinetics were investigated with a range of substrates and inhibitors. The enzyme had a K(m) of 17.2 (± 0.48) μM for DMS (k(cat) = 5.45 s⁻¹) and a V(max) of 1.25 (± 0.01) μmol NADH oxidized min⁻¹ (mg protein⁻¹). It was inhibited by umbelliferone, 8-anilinonaphthalenesulfonate, a range of metal-chelating agents, and Hg²(+), Cd²(+), and Pb²(+) ions. The purified enzyme had no activity with the substrates of related enzymes, including alkanesulfonates, aldehydes, nitrilotriacetate, or dibenzothiophenesulfone. The gene encoding the 53-kDa enzyme subunit has been cloned and matched to the enzyme subunit by mass spectrometry. DMS monooxygenase represents a new class of FMNH₂-dependent monooxygenases, based on its specificity for dimethylsulfide and the molecular phylogeny of its predicted amino acid sequence. The gene encoding the large subunit of DMS monooxygenase is colocated with genes encoding putative flavin reductases, homologues of enzymes of inorganic and organic sulfur compound metabolism, and enzymes involved in riboflavin synthesis.
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Ast JC, Urbanczyk H, Dunlap PV. Natural merodiploidy of the lux-rib operon of Photobacterium leiognathi from coastal waters of Honshu, Japan. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:6148-58. [PMID: 17586644 PMCID: PMC1951928 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00672-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2007] [Accepted: 06/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sequence analysis of the bacterial luminescence (lux) genes has proven effective in helping resolve evolutionary relationships among luminous bacteria. Phylogenetic analysis using lux genes, however, is based on the assumptions that the lux genes are present as single copies on the bacterial chromosome and are vertically inherited. We report here that certain strains of Photobacterium leiognathi carry multiple phylogenetically distinct copies of the entire operon that codes for luminescence and riboflavin synthesis genes, luxCDABEG-ribEBHA. Merodiploid lux-rib strains of P. leiognathi were detected during sequence analysis of luxA. To define the gene content, organization, and sequence of each lux-rib operon, we constructed a fosmid library of genomic DNA from a representative merodiploid strain, lnuch.13.1. Sequence analysis of fosmid clones and genomic analysis of lnuch.13.1 defined two complete, physically separate, and apparently functional operons, designated lux-rib1 and lux-rib2. P. leiognathi strains lelon.2.1 and lnuch.21.1 were also found to carry lux-rib1 and lux-rib2, whereas ATCC 25521T apparently carries only lux-rib1. In lnuch.13.1, lelon.2.1, lnuch.21.1, and ATCC 25521T, lux-rib1 is flanked upstream by lumQ and putA and downstream by a gene for a hypothetical multidrug efflux pump. In contrast, transposase genes flank lux-rib2 of lnuch.13.1, and the chromosomal location of lux-rib2 apparently differs in lnuch.13.1, lelon.2.1, and lnuch.21.1. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that lux-rib1 and lux-rib2 are more closely related to each other than either one is to the lux and rib genes of other bacterial species, which rules out interspecies lateral gene transfer as the origin of lux-rib2 in P. leiognathi; lux-rib2 apparently arose within a previously unsampled or extinct P. leiognathi lineage. Analysis of 170 additional strains of P. leiognathi, for a total of 174 strains examined from coastal waters of Japan, Taiwan, the Philippine Islands, and Thailand, identified 106 strains that carry only a single lux-rib operon and 68 that carry multiple lux-rib operons. Strains bearing a single lux-rib operon were obtained throughout the geographic sampling range, whereas lux-rib merodiploid strains were found only in coastal waters of central Honshu. This is the first report of merodiploidy of lux or rib genes in a luminous bacterium and the first indication that a natural merodiploid state in bacteria can correlate with geography.
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- Jennifer C Ast
- Department of Ecological and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 830 North University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA
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Grill S, Yamaguchi H, Wagner H, Zwahlen L, Kusch U, Mack M. Identification and characterization of two Streptomyces davawensis riboflavin biosynthesis gene clusters. Arch Microbiol 2007; 188:377-87. [PMID: 17541777 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-007-0258-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2006] [Revised: 04/19/2007] [Accepted: 05/04/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In Streptomyces davawensis roseoflavin is synthesized from GTP and ribulose-5-phosphate through riboflavin. As a first step towards the molecular analysis of flavin metabolism in S. davawensis the genes involved in riboflavin biosynthesis were cloned by hybridization of heterologous probes to a genomic library on a high-density colony-array. The genes ribB (riboflavin synthase, alpha-chain; EC 2.5.1.9), ribM (putative membrane protein), ribA (bifunctional GTP cyclohydrolase II/3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate synthase; EC 3.5.4.25) and ribH (lumazine synthase; EC 2.5.1.9) are organized in an operon-like cluster. Northern blot analysis of this cluster revealed two transcripts of 1.7 and 3.1 kb, respectively. The gene ribB was overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The specific riboflavin synthase activity in a cell-free extract of a recombinant strain was 0.246 nmol mg(-1 )min(-1). Overexpression of ribM enhanced the transport of riboflavin in the corresponding recombinant E. coli strain. Furthermore, overexpression of ribM increased roseoflavin sensitivity of E. coli. On another subgenomic fragment a putative S. davawensis ribG gene coding for the missing pyrimidine deaminase/reductase (EC 3.5.4.26 and EC 1.1.1.193) of the riboflavin biosynthetic pathway and ribY coding for a second (monofunctional) GTP cyclohydrolase II were identified.
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- Simon Grill
- Institute for Technical Microbiology, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, 68163 Mannheim, Germany
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Mack M, Grill S. Riboflavin analogs and inhibitors of riboflavin biosynthesis. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 71:265-75. [PMID: 16607521 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0421-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2006] [Revised: 03/06/2006] [Accepted: 03/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Flavins are active components of many enzymes. In most cases, riboflavin (vitamin B(2)) as a coenzyme represents the catalytic part of the holoenzyme. Riboflavin is an amphiphatic molecule and allows a large variety of different interactions with the enzyme itself and also with the substrate. A great number of active riboflavin analogs can readily be synthesized by chemical methods and, thus, a large number of possible inhibitors for many different enzyme targets is conceivable. As mammalian and especially human biochemistry depends on flavins as well, the target of the inhibiting flavin analog has to be carefully selected to avoid unwanted effects. In addition to flavoproteins, enzymes, which are involved in the biosynthesis of flavins, are possible targets for anti-infectives. Only a few flavin analogs or inhibitors of flavin biosynthesis have been subjected to detailed studies to evaluate their biological activity. Nevertheless, flavin analogs certainly have the potential to serve as basic structures for the development of novel anti-infectives and it is possible that, in the future, the urgent need for new molecules to fight multiresistant microorganisms will be met.
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- Matthias Mack
- Institute for Technical Microbiology, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
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The biosynthesis of one riboflavin molecule requires one molecule of GTP and two molecules of ribulose 5-phosphate. The imidazole ring of GTP is hydrolytically opened, yielding a 2,5-diaminopyrimidine that is converted to 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione by a sequence of deamination, side chain reduction, and dephosphorylation. Condensation of 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione with 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate obtained from ribulose 5-phosphate affords 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine. Dismutation of the lumazine derivative yields riboflavin and 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione, which is recycled in the biosynthetic pathway. The enzymes of the riboflavin pathway are potential targets for antibacterial agents.
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- Markus Fischer
- Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747, Garching, Germany.
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Kasai S, Sumimoto T. Stimulated biosynthesis of flavins in Photobacterium phosphoreum IFO 13896 and the presence of complete rib operons in two species of luminous bacteria. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2002; 269:5851-60. [PMID: 12444973 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03304.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Photobacterium phosphoreum IFO 13896 emits light strongly when cultured in medium containing 3% NaCl, but only weakly in medium containing 1% NaCl. It is known that dim or dark mutants appear frequently and spontaneously from this parent strain. To confirm that riboflavin biosynthesis is stimulated when the lux operon is active, the amount of light emitted and flavins synthesized under strongly or weakly light emitting conditions was determined. In comparison with the parent strain cultured in 3% NaCl, the same strain cultured in 1% NaCl emitted 1/36 the light and produced 1/4 the flavins, while three dim or dark mutants, M1, M2 and M3 cultured in 3% NaCl, emitted almost no light, 1/58 the light and 1/10 the light and produced 1/8, 1/5 and 1/3 the amount of flavins, respectively. From these results, we deduced that the genes for riboflavin synthesis, rib genes, are organized in an operon in this strain. In P. phosphoreum NCMB 844, it has been reported that a rib gene cluster is present just downstream of the lux operon. However, among rib genes, the gene for pyrimidine deaminase/pyrimidine reductase, ribD, was not found in this cluster. Because a complete rib operon seems to be necessary for efficient regulation at the transcriptional level, we expected ribD to be present downstream of this cluster and sequenced this region, using SUGDAT, Sequencing Using Genomic DNA As a Template. We could not find this gene but found a gene for hybrid-cluster protein (prismane protein). To find ribD in a different region, a partial ribD sequence was amplified and sequenced using a PCR-based method, and subsequently the genomic DNA was sequenced in both directions from this partial sequence using SUGDAT. Because ribC was found just downstream of ribD, we sequenced further downstream of ribC and confirmed that another complete set of rib genes, ribD, ribC, ribBA, and ribE, is present in P. phosphoreum. The presence of a complete rib operon in P. phosphoreum explains why this species can synthesize flavins at enhanced levels to sustain a strong light emission. Furthermore, we sequenced the rib operon in Vibrio fischeri, another representative luminous bacterium, in a manner similar to that described above, and confirmed that a complete operon is present also in this species. The organization of rib genes in an operon in the Proteobacteria gamma-subdivision is discussed.
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- Sabu Kasai
- Department of Bioapplied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University, Japan.
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Vitreschak AG, Rodionov DA, Mironov AA, Gelfand MS. Regulation of riboflavin biosynthesis and transport genes in bacteria by transcriptional and translational attenuation. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:3141-51. [PMID: 12136096 PMCID: PMC135753 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The riboflavin biosynthesis in bacteria was analyzed using comparative analysis of genes, operons and regulatory elements. A model for regulation based on formation of alternative RNA structures involving the RFN elements is suggested. In Gram-positive bacteria including actinomycetes, Thermotoga, Thermus and Deinococcus, the riboflavin metabolism and transport genes are predicted to be regulated by transcriptional attenuation, whereas in most Gram-negative bacteria, the riboflavin biosynthesis genes seem to be regulated on the level of translation initiation. Several new candidate riboflavin transporters were identified (impX in Desulfitobacterium halfniense and Fusobacterium nucleatum; pnuX in several actinomycetes, including some Corynebacterium species and Strepto myces coelicolor; rfnT in Rhizobiaceae). Traces of a number of likely horizontal transfer events were found: the complete riboflavin operon with the upstream regulatory element was transferred to Haemophilus influenzae and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae from some Gram-positive bacterium; non-regulated riboflavin operon in Pyrococcus furiousus was likely transferred from Thermotoga; and the RFN element was inserted into the riboflavin operon of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from some other Pseudomonas species, where it had regulated the ribH2 gene.
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Lin JW, Chao YF, Weng SF. Riboflavin synthesis genes ribE, ribB, ribH, ribA reside in the lux operon of Photobacterium leiognathi. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 284:587-95. [PMID: 11396941 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nucleotide sequence of the riboflavin synthesis genes ribE, ribB, ribH, ribA (GenBank Accession No. AF364106) resided in the lux operon of Photobacterium leiognathi PL741 has been determined, and the amino acid sequences of riboflavin synthetase (RibE), DHBP synthetase (RibB), lumazine synthetase (RibH), GTP cyclohydrolase II (RibA) encoded by the riboflavin synthesis genes are deduced. Nucleotide sequence reveals that the ribE gene encodes the riboflavin synthetase responsible for converting lumazine to riboflavin, the ribB gene encodes the DHBP synthetase responsible for 3,4-dihydroxyl-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthesis, the ribH gene encodes the lumazine synthetase responsible for lumazine synthesis, and the ribA gene encodes the GTP cyclohydrolase II responsible for lumazine synthesis. Functional analysis illustrates that the specific segments lay behind the ribH and ribA genes might form potential loops Omega(oT) and Omega(TI)--Omega(TII); Omega(oT) is functioned as mRNA stability loop or/and for subregulation by alternative modulation, and Omega(TI)--Omega(TII) could be the transcriptional terminator of the lux operon. The gene order of the ribE, ribB, ribH, ribA genes resided in the lux operon and linked to the lum operon is <--ter*-lumQ-lumP-R&R-luxC-luxD-luxA-luxB-luxN-luxE-luxG-ribE-ribB-ribH-ribA-ter--> (R&R: regulatory region; ter: transcriptional terminator), whereas the R&R is the regulatory region for the lum and the lux operons, and ter and ter* are the transcriptional terminators for the lux and lum operons.
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- J W Lin
- Institute of Biochemistry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Bacher A, Eberhardt S, Eisenreich W, Fischer M, Herz S, Illarionov B, Kis K, Richter G. Biosynthesis of riboflavin. VITAMINS AND HORMONES 2001; 61:1-49. [PMID: 11153262 DOI: 10.1016/s0083-6729(01)61001-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The biosynthesis of one riboflavin molecule requires one molecule of GTP and two molecules of ribulose 5-phosphate. The imidazole ring of GTP is hydrolytically opened, yielding a 4,5-diaminopyrimidine that is converted to 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione by a sequence of deamination, side chain reduction, and dephosphorylation. Condensation of 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione with 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate obtained from ribulose 5-phosphate affords 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine. Dismutation of the lumazine derivative yields riboflavin and 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione, which is recycled in the biosynthetic pathway. Two reaction steps in the biosynthetic pathway catalyzed by 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase and riboflavin synthase are mechanistically very complex. The enzymes of the riboflavin pathway are potential targets for antibacterial agents.
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- A Bacher
- Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität München, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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McAnulla C, Woodall CA, McDonald IR, Studer A, Vuilleumier S, Leisinger T, Murrell JC. Chloromethane utilization gene cluster from Hyphomicrobium chloromethanicum strain CM2(T) and development of functional gene probes to detect halomethane-degrading bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001; 67:307-16. [PMID: 11133460 PMCID: PMC92571 DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.1.307-316.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hyphomicrobium chloromethanicum CM2(T), an aerobic methylotrophic member of the alpha subclass of the class proteobacteria, can grow with chloromethane as the sole carbon and energy source. H. chloromethanicum possesses an inducible enzyme system for utilization of chloromethane, in which two polypeptides (67-kDa CmuA and 35-kDa CmuB) are expressed. Previously, four genes, cmuA, cmuB, cmuC, and purU, were shown to be essential for growth of Methylobacterium chloromethanicum on chloromethane. The cmuA and cmuB genes were used as probes to identify homologs in H. chloromethanicum. A cmu gene cluster (9.5 kb) in H. chloromethanicum contained 10 open reading frames: folD (partial), pduX, orf153, orf207, orf225, cmuB, cmuC, cmuA, fmdB, and paaE (partial). CmuA from H. chloromethanicum (67 kDa) showed high identity to CmuA from M. chloromethanicum and contains an N-terminal methyltransferase domain and a C-terminal corrinoid-binding domain. CmuB from H. chloromethanicum is related to a family of methyl transfer proteins and to the CmuB methyltransferase from M. chloromethanicum. CmuC from H. chloromethanicum shows identity to CmuC from M. chloromethanicum and is a putative methyltransferase. folD codes for a methylene-tetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase, which may be involved in the C(1) transfer pathway for carbon assimilation and CO(2) production, and paaE codes for a putative redox active protein. Molecular analyses and some preliminary biochemical data indicated that the chloromethane utilization pathway in H. chloromethanicum is similar to the corrinoid-dependent methyl transfer system in M. chloromethanicum. PCR primers were developed for successful amplification of cmuA genes from newly isolated chloromethane utilizers and enrichment cultures.
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- C McAnulla
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
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Bereswill S, Hinkelmann S, Kist M, Sander A. Molecular analysis of riboflavin synthesis genes in Bartonella henselae and use of the ribC gene for differentiation of Bartonella species by PCR. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:3159-66. [PMID: 10488170 PMCID: PMC85516 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.10.3159-3166.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The biosynthesis pathway for riboflavin (vitamin B(2)), the precursor of the essential cofactors flavin mononucleotide and flavin adenine dinucleotide, is present in bacteria and plants but is absent in vertebrates. Due to their conservation in bacterial species and their absence in humans, the riboflavin synthesis genes should be well suited either for detection of bacterial DNA in human specimens or for the differentiation of pathogenic bacteria by molecular techniques. A DNA fragment carrying the genes ribD, ribC, and ribE, which encode homologues of riboflavin deaminase (RibD) and subunits of riboflavin synthetase (RibC and RibE), respectively, was isolated from a plasmid-based DNA library of the human pathogen Bartonella henselae by complementation of a ribC mutation in Escherichia coli. Sequence analysis of the ribC gene region in strains of B. henselae, which were previously shown to be genetically different, revealed that the ribC gene is highly conserved at the species level. PCR amplification with primers derived from the ribC locus of B. henselae was used to isolate the corresponding DNA regions in B. bacilliformis, B. clarridgeiae, and B. quintana. Sequence analysis indicated that the riboflavin synthesis genes are conserved and show the same operon-like genetic organization in all four Bartonella species. Primer oligonucleotides designed on the basis of localized differences within the ribC DNA region were successfully used to develop species-specific PCR assays for the differentiation of B. henselae, B. clarridgeiae, B. quintana, and B. bacilliformis. The results obtained indicate that the riboflavin synthesis genes are excellent targets for PCR-directed differentiation of these emerging pathogens. The PCR assays developed should increase our diagnostic potential to differentiate Bartonella species, especially B. henselae and the newly recognized species B. clarridgeiae.
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- S Bereswill
- Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Jordan DB, Bacot KO, Carlson TJ, Kessel M, Viitanen PV. Plant riboflavin biosynthesis. Cloning, chloroplast localization, expression, purification, and partial characterization of spinach lumazine synthase. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:22114-21. [PMID: 10419541 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.31.22114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Lumazine synthase, which catalyzes the penultimate step of riboflavin biosynthesis, has been cloned from three higher plants (spinach, tobacco, and arabidopsis) through functional complementation of an Escherichia coli auxotroph. Whereas the three plant proteins exhibit some structural similarities to known microbial homologs, they uniquely possess N-terminal polypeptide extensions that resemble typical chloroplast transit peptides. In vitro protein import assays with intact chloroplasts and immunolocalization experiments verify that higher plant lumazine synthase is synthesized in the cytosol as a larger molecular weight precursor protein, which is post-translationally imported into chloroplasts where it is proteolytically cleaved to its mature size. The authentic spinach enzyme is estimated to constitute <0.02% of the total chloroplast protein. Recombinant "mature" spinach lumazine synthase is expressed in E. coli at levels exceeding 30% of the total soluble protein and is readily purified to homogeneity using a simple two-step procedure. Apparent V(max) and K(m) values obtained with the purified plant protein are similar to those reported for microbial lumazine synthases. Electron microscopy and hydrodynamic studies reveal that native plant lumazine synthase is a hollow capsid-like structure comprised of 60 identical 16.5-kDa subunits, resembling its icosahedral counterparts in E. coli and Bacillus subtilis.
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- D B Jordan
- E. I. DuPont de Nemours Agricultural Products, Stine-Haskell Research Center, Newark, Delaware 19714, USA
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The production of light in most luminescent bacteria lags behind cellular growth with induction of luminescence only occurring at high cell density. The maximum intensity and the cell density reached before induction of luminescence is highly dependent on the bacterial species and the growth conditions including temperature, salt and nutrient composition as well as other experimental conditions. Although common N-acylhomoserine lactone autoinducers have been identified in Vibrio (Photobacterium) fischeri and Vibrio harveyi, most regulatory components are quite different. Recognition of the common as well as the different elements controlling luminescence in the diverse bacterial species is essential to understand the basis for high levels of light emission at the later stages of cellular growth.
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- E A Meighen
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, 3655 Drummond, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3G 1Y6
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Eberhardt S, Korn S, Lottspeich F, Bacher A. Biosynthesis of riboflavin: an unusual riboflavin synthase of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:2938-43. [PMID: 9139911 PMCID: PMC179057 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.9.2938-2943.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Riboflavin synthase was purified by a factor of about 1,500 from cell extract of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. The enzyme had a specific activity of about 2,700 nmol mg(-1) h(-1) at 65 degrees C, which is relatively low compared to those of riboflavin synthases of eubacteria and yeast. Amino acid sequences obtained after proteolytic cleavage had no similarity with known riboflavin synthases. The gene coding for riboflavin synthase (designated ribC) was subsequently cloned by marker rescue with a ribC mutant of Escherichia coli. The ribC gene of M. thermoautotrophicum specifies a protein of 153 amino acid residues. The predicted amino acid sequence agrees with the information gleaned from Edman degradation of the isolated protein and shows 67% identity with the sequence predicted for the unannotated reading frame MJ1184 of Methanococcus jannaschii. The ribC gene is adjacent to a cluster of four genes with similarity to the genes cbiMNQO of Salmonella typhimurium, which form part of the cob operon (this operon contains most of the genes involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin B12). The amino acid sequence predicted by the ribC gene of M. thermoautotrophicum shows no similarity whatsoever to the sequences of riboflavin synthases of eubacteria and yeast. Most notably, the M. thermoautotrophicum protein does not show the internal sequence homology characteristic of eubacterial and yeast riboflavin synthases. The protein of M. thermoautotrophicum can be expressed efficiently in a recombinant E. coli strain. The specific activity of the purified, recombinant protein is 1,900 nmol mg(-1) h(-1) at 65 degrees C. In contrast to riboflavin synthases from eubacteria and fungi, the methanobacterial enzyme has an absolute requirement for magnesium ions. The 5' phosphate of 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine does not act as a substrate. The findings suggest that riboflavin synthase has evolved independently in eubacteria and methanobacteria.
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- S Eberhardt
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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Eberhardt S, Richter G, Gimbel W, Werner T, Bacher A. Cloning, sequencing, mapping and hyperexpression of the ribC gene coding for riboflavin synthase of Escherichia coli. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 242:712-9. [PMID: 9022701 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0712r.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The gene coding for riboflavin synthase of Escherichia coli has been cloned by marker rescue on a 6-kb fragment that has been sequenced. The riboflavin synthase gene is identical to the ribC locus and codes for a protein of 213 amino acids with a mass of 23.4 kDa. It was mapped to a position at 37.5 min on the physical map of the E. coli chromosome. The 3' end of the ribC gene is directly adjacent to the cfa gene, which codes for cyclopropane-fatty-acid synthase. This gene is followed by two open reading frames designated ydhC and ydhB, which are predicted to code for putative proteins with 403 amino acids and 310 amino acids, respectively. The gene ydhC is similar to genes coding for resistance against various antibiotics (cmlA, bcr) and probably codes for a transmembrane protein. The protein specified by ydhB shows sequence similarity to a large family of DNA-binding proteins and probably represents a helix-turn-helix protein. The ydhB gene is directly adjacent to the regulatory gene purR. A 288-bp segment of the cfa gene has earlier been mapped incorrectly to a position adjacent to greA at 67 min. The ribC gene was hyperexpressed in recombinant E. coli strains to a level of about 30% of cellular protein. The protein was purified to homogeneity by chromatography. The specific activity was 26000 nmol.mg-1.h-1. The protein sediments at a velocity of S20 = 3.8 S. Sedimentation-equilibrium centrifugation indicated a molecular mass of 70 kDa, consistent with a trimer structure. The primary structure of riboflavin synthase is characterized by internal sequence similarity (25 identical amino acids in the C-terminal and N-terminal parts suggesting two structurally similar folding domains.
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- S Eberhardt
- Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemic und Biochemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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Fuller TE, Mulks MH. Characterization of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae riboflavin biosynthesis genes. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:7265-70. [PMID: 8522537 PMCID: PMC177609 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.24.7265-7270.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In this paper, we report the identification, cloning, and complete nucleotide sequence of four genes from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae that are involved in riboflavin biosynthesis. The cloned genes can specify production of large amounts of riboflavin in Escherichia coli, can complement several defined genetic mutations in riboflavin biosynthesis in E. coli, and are homologous to riboflavin biosynthetic genes from E. coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Bacillus subtilis. The genes have been designated A. pleuropneumoniae ribGBAH because of their similarity in both sequence and arrangement to the B. subtilis ribGBAH operon.
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- T E Fuller
- Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
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Casas C, Aldea M, Casamayor A, Lafuente MJ, Gamo FJ, Gancedo C, Ariño J, Herrero E. Sequence analysis of a 9873 bp fragment of the left arm of yeast chromosome XV that contains the ARG8 and CDC33 genes, a putative riboflavin synthase beta chain gene, and four new open reading frames. Yeast 1995; 11:1061-7. [PMID: 7502581 DOI: 10.1002/yea.320111107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The DNA sequence of a 9873 bp fragment located near the left telomere of chromosome XV has been determined. Sequence analysis reveals seven open reading frames. One is the ARG8 gene coding for N-acetylornithine aminotransferase. Another corresponds to CDC33, which codes for the initiation factor 4E or cap binding protein. The open reading frame AOE169 can be considered as the putative gene for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae riboflavin synthase beta chain, since its translation product shows strong homology with four prokaryotic riboflavin synthase beta chains.
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- C Casas
- Departament de Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
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Liauta-Teglivets O, Hasslacher M, Boretskii IR, Kohlwein SD, Shavlovskii GM. Molecular cloning of the GTP-cyclohydrolase structural gene RIB1 of Pichia guilliermondii involved in riboflavin biosynthesis. Yeast 1995; 11:945-52. [PMID: 8533469 DOI: 10.1002/yea.320111005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The structural gene of GTP-cyclohydrolase, involved in riboflavin biosynthesis, was cloned from a Pichia guilliermondii genomic library. A 1855 bp genomic DNA fragment complementing the riboflavin auxotrophies of an Escherichia coli ribA mutant, defective in GTP-cyclohydrolase II, and a P. guilliermondii rib1 mutant was isolated and sequenced. An open reading frame with the potential to encode a protein of 344 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 38,711 Da was detected. The P. guilliermondii enzyme shows a high degree of homology to GTP-cyclohydrolases type II from E. coli and Baccillus subtilis and to GTP-cyclohydrolase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Functional GTP-cyclohydrolase from P. guilliermondii may consist of four identical subunits.
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- O Liauta-Teglivets
- Division of Cell Regulatory Systems, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
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Kobayashi M, Sugiyama M, Yamamoto K. Isolation of cDNAs encoding GTP cyclohydrolase II from Arabidopsis thaliana. Gene 1995; 160:303-4. [PMID: 7642114 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00246-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A GTP cyclohydrolase II-encoding gene from Arabidopsis thaliana was isolated through functional complementation of a mutant of Escherichia coli, BSV18, deficient in this protein. The derived amino-acid sequence constitutes a polypeptide of 27 kDa and shows 37-58% identity with previously published sequences of Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Photobacterium leiognathi and P. phosphoreum.
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- M Kobayashi
- Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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