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Bali S, Rollauer S, Roversi P, Raux-Deery E, Lea SM, Warren MJ, Ferguson SJ. Identification and characterization of the 'missing' terminal enzyme for siroheme biosynthesis in α-proteobacteria. Mol Microbiol 2014; 92:153-63. [PMID: 24673795 PMCID: PMC4063343 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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It has recently been shown that the biosynthetic route for both the d1 -haem cofactor of dissimilatory cd1 nitrite reductases and haem, via the novel alternative-haem-synthesis pathway, involves siroheme as an intermediate, which was previously thought to occur only as a cofactor in assimilatory sulphite/nitrite reductases. In many denitrifiers (which require d1 -haem), the pathway to make siroheme remained to be identified. Here we identify and characterize a sirohydrochlorin-ferrochelatase from Paracoccus pantotrophus that catalyses the last step of siroheme synthesis. It is encoded by a gene annotated as cbiX that was previously assumed to be encoding a cobaltochelatase, acting on sirohydrochlorin. Expressing this chelatase from a plasmid restored the wild-type phenotype of an Escherichia coli mutant-strain lacking sirohydrochlorin-ferrochelatase activity, showing that this chelatase can act in the in vivo siroheme synthesis. A ΔcbiX mutant in P. denitrificans was unable to respire anaerobically on nitrate, proving the role of siroheme as a precursor to another cofactor. We report the 1.9 Å crystal structure of this ferrochelatase. In vivo analysis of single amino acid variants of this chelatase suggests that two histidines, His127 and His187, are essential for siroheme synthesis. This CbiX can generally be identified in α-proteobacteria as the terminal enzyme of siroheme biosynthesis.
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- Shilpa Bali
- Department of Biochemistry, University of OxfordSouth Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
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- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of OxfordSouth Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RE, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of OxfordSouth Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of OxfordSouth Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RE, UK
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- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of OxfordSouth Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RE, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of KentCanterbury, Kent, CT2 7NJ, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of OxfordSouth Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
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Quentmeier A, Janning P, Hellwig P, Friedrich CG. Activation of the Heterodimeric Central Complex SoxYZ of Chemotrophic Sulfur Oxidation Is Linked to a Conformational Change and SoxY-Y Interprotein Disulfide Formation,. Biochemistry 2007; 46:10990-8. [PMID: 17760419 DOI: 10.1021/bi700378k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The central protein of the four component sulfur oxidizing (Sox) enzyme system of Paracoccus pantotrophus, SoxYZ, carries at the SoxY subunit the covalently bound sulfur substrate which the other three proteins bind, oxidize, and release as sulfate. SoxYZ of different preparations resulted in different specific thiosulfate-oxidizing activities of the reconstituted Sox enzyme system. From these preparations SoxYZ was activated up to 24-fold by different reductants with disodium sulfide being the most effective and yielded a uniform specific activity of the Sox system. The activation comprised the activities with hydrogen sulfide, thiosulfate, and sulfite. Sulfide-activation decreased the predominant beta-sheet character of SoxYZ by 4%, which caused a change in its conformation as determined by infrared spectroscopy. Activation of SoxYZ by sulfide exposed the thiol of the C-terminal Cys-138 of SoxY as evident from alkylation by 4-acetamido-4'-maleimidylstilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid. Also, SoxYZ activation enhanced the formation of the Sox(YZ)2 heterotetramer as evident from density gradient gel electrophoresis. The tetramer was formed due to an interprotein disulfide between SoxY to yield a SoxY-Y dimer as determined by combined high pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The significance of the conformational change of SoxYZ and the interprotein disulfide between SoxY-Y is discussed.
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- Armin Quentmeier
- Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Fachbereich Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen, Universität Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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van Wonderen JH, Knight C, Oganesyan VS, George SJ, Zumft WG, Cheesman MR. Activation of the cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase from Paracoccus pantotrophus. Reaction of oxidized enzyme with substrate drives a ligand switch at heme c. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:28207-15. [PMID: 17623666 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m701242200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cytochromes cd(1) are dimeric bacterial nitrite reductases, which contain two hemes per monomer. On reduction of both hemes, the distal ligand of heme d(1) dissociates, creating a vacant coordination site accessible to substrate. Heme c, which transfers electrons from donor proteins into the active site, has histidine/methionine ligands except in the oxidized enzyme from Paracoccus pantotrophus where both ligands are histidine. During reduction of this enzyme, Tyr(25) dissociates from the distal side of heme d(1), and one heme c ligand is replaced by methionine. Activity is associated with histidine/methionine coordination at heme c, and it is believed that P. pantotrophus cytochrome cd(1) is unreactive toward substrate without reductive activation. However, we report here that the oxidized enzyme will react with nitrite to yield a novel species in which heme d(1) is EPR-silent. Magnetic circular dichroism studies indicate that heme d(1) is low-spin Fe(III) but EPR-silent as a result of spin coupling to a radical species formed during the reaction with nitrite. This reaction drives the switch to histidine/methionine ligation at Fe(III) heme c. Thus the enzyme is activated by exposure to its physiological substrate without the necessity of passing through the reduced state. This reactivity toward nitrite is also observed for oxidized cytochrome cd(1) from Pseudomonas stutzeri suggesting a more general involvement of the EPR-silent Fe(III) heme d(1) species in nitrite reduction.
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- Jessica H van Wonderen
- Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
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Reijerse EJ, Sommerhalter M, Hellwig P, Quentmeier A, Rother D, Laurich C, Bothe E, Lubitz W, Friedrich CG. The Unusal Redox Centers of SoxXA, a Novel c-Type Heme-Enzyme Essential for Chemotrophic Sulfur-Oxidation of Paracoccus pantotrophus. Biochemistry 2007; 46:7804-10. [PMID: 17547421 DOI: 10.1021/bi7003526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The heterodimeric hemoprotein SoxXA, essential for lithotrophic sulfur oxidation of the aerobic bacterium Paracoccus pantotrophus, was examined by a combination of spectroelectrochemistry and EPR spectroscopy. The EPR spectra for SoxXA showed contributions from three paramagnetic heme iron centers. One highly anisotropic low-spin (HALS) species (gmax = 3.45) and two "standard" cytochrome-like low-spin heme species with closely spaced g-tensor values were identified, LS1 (gz = 2.54, gy = 2.30, and gx = 1.87) and LS2 (gz = 2.43, gy = 2.26, and gx = 1.90). The crystal structure of SoxXA from P. pantotrophus confirmed the presence of three heme groups, one of which (heme 3) has a His/Met axial coordination and is located on the SoxX subunit [Dambe et al. (2005) J. Struct. Biol. 152, 229-234]. This heme was assigned to the HALS species in the EPR spectra of the isolated SoxX subunit. The LS1 and LS2 species were associated with heme 1 and heme 2 located on the SoxA subunit, both of which have EPR parameters characteristic for an axial His/thiolate coordination. Using thin-layer spectroelectrochemistry the midpoint potentials of heme 3 and heme 2 were determined: Em3 = +189 +/- 15 mV and Em2 = -432 +/- 15 mV (vs NHE, pH 7.0). Heme 1 was not reducible even with 20 mM titanium(III) citrate. The Em2 midpoint potential turned out to be pH dependent. It is proposed that heme 2 participates in the catalysis and that the cysteine persulfide ligation leads to the unusually low redox potential (-436 mV). The pH dependence of its redox potential may be due to (de)protonation of the Arg247 residue located in the active site.
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- Edward J Reijerse
- Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany.
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de Sousa PMP, Pauleta SR, Gonçalves MLS, Pettigrew GW, Moura I, Dos Santos MMC, Moura JJG. Mediated catalysis of Paracoccus pantotrophus cytochrome c peroxidase by P. pantotrophus pseudoazurin: kinetics of intermolecular electron transfer. J Biol Inorg Chem 2007; 12:691-8. [PMID: 17361419 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-007-0219-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2006] [Accepted: 01/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This work reports the direct electrochemistry of Paracoccus pantotrophus pseudoazurin and the mediated catalysis of cytochrome c peroxidase from the same organism. The voltammetric behaviour was examined at a gold membrane electrode, and the studies were performed in the presence of calcium to enable the peroxidase activation. A formal reduction potential, E (0)', of 230 +/- 5 mV was determined for pseudoazurin at pH 7.0. Its voltammetric signal presented a pH dependence, defined by pK values of 6.5 and 10.5 in the oxidised state and 7.2 in the reduced state, and was constant up to 1 M NaCl. This small copper protein was shown to be competent as an electron donor to cytochrome c peroxidase and the kinetics of intermolecular electron transfer was analysed. A second-order rate constant of 1.4 +/- 0.2 x 10(5) M(-1) s(-1) was determined at 0 M NaCl. This parameter has a maximum at 0.3 M NaCl and is pH-independent between pH 5 and 9.
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- P M Paes de Sousa
- ReQuimte, Centro de Química Fina e Biotecnologia, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Zajicek RS, Cartron ML, Ferguson SJ. Probing the Unusual Oxidation/Reduction Behavior of Paracoccus pantotrophus Cytochrome cd1 Nitrite Reductase by Replacing a Switchable Methionine Heme Iron Ligand with Histidine. Biochemistry 2006; 45:11208-16. [PMID: 16964982 DOI: 10.1021/bi0604983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A M106H variant, where M106 is a c-type heme iron axial ligand, of cytochrome cd(1) nitrite reductase is an inactive protein in vivo. Expression of the holoprotein in Paracoccus pantotrophus required generation of nitric oxide during cell growth through simultaneous expression of an exogenous copper nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes faecalis. In the absence of the latter protein, only a semi-apo form of M106H cytochrome cd(1) was formed. Thus it was demonstrated that expression of the chromosomal nir genes for d(1) heme biosynthesis in P. pantotrophus is NO-dependent, probably mediated by the transcription factor NNR, and a route to low or zero activity mutants had been established. The value of such variants for mechanistic studies on cytochrome cd(1) is illustrated by the use of M106H to demonstrate that the d(1) heme potential can be resolved and measured at approximately +175 mV with the c heme shifted to -60 mV, consistent with its bishistidinyl coordination. The unusual highly cooperative and strongly hysteretic redox titration of the wild type is lost in the M106H protein. The same c heme midpoint potential was observed in a M106H variant of a c-domain construct. The difference between d(1) heme and c heme redox potentials has allowed preparation of a M106H protein with oxidized c heme and reduced d(1) heme. This one electron reduced form will reduce nitrite to nitric oxide, but the latter remains bound to the resulting fully oxidized enzyme.
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- Richard S Zajicek
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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Echalier A, Goodhew CF, Pettigrew GW, Fülöp V. Activation and catalysis of the di-heme cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus pantotrophus. Structure 2006; 14:107-17. [PMID: 16407070 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2005] [Revised: 09/22/2005] [Accepted: 09/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bacterial cytochrome c peroxidases contain an electron transferring (E) heme domain and a peroxidatic (P) heme domain. All but one of these enzymes are isolated in an inactive oxidized state and require reduction of the E heme by a small redox donor protein in order to activate the P heme. Here we present the structures of the inactive oxidized and active mixed valence enzyme from Paracoccus pantotrophus. Chain flexibility in the former, as expressed by the crystallographic temperature factors, is strikingly distributed in certain loop regions, and these coincide with the regions of conformational change that occur in forming the active mixed valence enzyme. On the basis of these changes, we postulate a series of events that occur to link the trigger of the electron entering the E heme from either pseudoazurin or cytochrome c(550) and the dissociation of a coordinating histidine at the P heme, which allows substrate access.
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- Aude Echalier
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Ellington MJK, Fosdike WLJ, Sawers RG, Richardson DJ, Ferguson SJ. Regulation of the nap operon encoding the periplasmic nitrate reductase of Paracoccus pantotrophus: delineation of DNA sequences required for redox control. Arch Microbiol 2005; 184:298-304. [PMID: 16333617 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0044-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2005] [Revised: 07/19/2005] [Accepted: 09/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Expression of the nap operon, encoding the periplasmic nitrate reductase in Paracoccus pantotrophus, is maximal when cells are grown aerobically, but not anaerobically, with butyrate. Two promoters, termed P1 and P2, control operon expression and the operon-proximal P2 promoter is primarily responsible for increased nap expression in the presence of butyrate. A near-perfect palindromic sequence is centred at +7, relative to the P2 transcription start site. Mutation of this palindrome demonstrated that it is important for regulation of nap operon expression in response to both the redox and the oxidation state of the carbon substrate. A 5' deletion analysis of the nap promoter fused to lacZ revealed that full redox control of expression was retained when the DNA sequence up to position -49 bp, relative to the operon-distal P1 transcription start site, was removed. Encroaching beyond this position resulted in an approximately 4-fold reduction in expression when cells were grown aerobically with butyrate. Additionally, point mutations at position -38 and -45 relative to P1 also resulted in a reduction in expression during aerobic growth with butyrate. A GC-rich region of nap promoter DNA, centred on position -41 relative to the P1 transcription start site is thus proposed as a second DNA motif that is important for efficient expression of the nap operon.
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- M J K Ellington
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
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Epel B, Schäfer KO, Quentmeier A, Friedrich C, Lubitz W. Multifrequency EPR analysis of the dimanganese cluster of the putative sulfate thiohydrolase SoxB of Paracoccus pantotrophus. J Biol Inorg Chem 2005; 10:636-42. [PMID: 16133204 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-005-0015-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2004] [Accepted: 07/26/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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A detailed analysis of the EPR signatures at X-band and Q-band of an enzyme (SoxB) involved in sulfur oxidation from Paracoccus pantotrophus is presented. EPR spectra are attributed to an exchange-coupled dimanganese Mn(2)(II,II) complex. An antiferromagnetic exchange interaction of J=-7.0 (+/-1) cm(-1) (H=-2JS ( 1 ) S ( 2 )) is evidenced by a careful examination of the temperature dependence of the EPR spectra. The spin Hamiltonian parameters for a total spin of S ( T ) =1, 2 and 3 are obtained and an inter-manganese distance of 3.4 (+/-0.1) A is estimated. The comparison with exchange coupling and inter-manganese distance data of other dimanganese proteins and model compounds leads to a tentative assignment of the Mn bridging ligands to bis(mu-hydroxo) (mu-carboxylato).
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- Boris Epel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemi, Stiftstr. 34-36, 45470, Mülheim, Ruhr, Germany
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Bardischewsky F, Quentmeier A, Rother D, Hellwig P, Kostka S, Friedrich CG. Sulfur Dehydrogenase of Paracoccus pantotrophus: The Heme-2 Domain of the Molybdoprotein Cytochrome c Complex Is Dispensable for Catalytic Activity. Biochemistry 2005; 44:7024-34. [PMID: 15865447 DOI: 10.1021/bi047334b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sulfur dehydrogenase, Sox(CD)(2), is an essential part of the sulfur-oxidizing enzyme system of the chemotrophic bacterium Paracoccus pantotrophus. Sox(CD)(2) is a alpha(2)beta(2) complex composed of the molybdoprotein SoxC (43 442 Da) and the hybrid diheme c-type cytochrome SoxD (37 637 Da). Sox(CD)(2) catalyzes the oxidation of protein-bound sulfur to sulfate with a unique six-electron transfer. Amino acid sequence analysis identified the heme-1 domain of SoxD proteins to be specific for sulfur dehydrogenases and to contain a novel ProCysMetXaaAspCys motif, while the heme-2 domain is related to various cytochromes c(2). Purification of sulfur dehydrogenase without protease inhibitor yielded a dimeric SoxCD(1) complex consisting of SoxC and SoxD(1) of 30 kDa, which contained only the heme-1 domain. The heme-2 domain was isolated as a new cytochrome SoxD(2) of about 13 kDa. Both hemes of SoxD in Sox(CD)(2) are redox-active with midpoint potentials at E(m)1 = 218 +/- 10 mV and E(m)2 = 268 +/- 10 mV, while SoxCD(1) and SoxD(2) both exhibit a midpoint potential of E(m) = 278 +/- 10 mV. Electrochemically induced FTIR difference spectra of Sox(CD)(2), SoxCD(1), and SoxD(2) were distinct. A carboxy group is protonated upon reduction of the SoxD(1) heme but not for SoxD(2). The specific activity of SoxCD(1) and Sox(CD)(2) was identical as was the yield of electrons with thiosulfate in the reconstituted Sox enzyme system. To examine the physiological significance of the heme-2 domain, a mutant was constructed that was deleted for the heme-2 domain, which produced SoxCD(1) and transferred electrons from thiosulfate to oxygen. These data demonstrated the crucial role of the heme-1 domain of SoxD for catalytic activity, electron yield, and transfer of the electrons to the cytoplasmic membrane, while the heme-2 domain mediated the alpha(2)beta(2) tetrameric structure of sulfur dehydrogenase.
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- Frank Bardischewsky
- Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Fachbereich Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen, Universität Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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Rein U, Gueta R, Denger K, Ruff J, Hollemeyer K, Cook AM. Dissimilation of cysteate via 3-sulfolactate sulfo-lyase and a sulfate exporter in Paracoccus pantotrophus NKNCYSA. Microbiology (Reading) 2005; 151:737-747. [PMID: 15758220 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27548-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Paracoccus pantotrophusNKNCYSA utilizes (R)-cysteate (2-amino-3-sulfopropionate) as a sole source of carbon and energy for growth, with either nitrate or molecular oxygen as terminal electron acceptor, and the specific utilization rate of cysteate is about 2 mkat (kg protein)−1. The initial degradative reaction is catalysed by an (R)-cysteate : 2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase, which yields 3-sulfopyruvate. The latter was reduced to 3-sulfolactate by an NAD-linked sulfolactate dehydrogenase [3·3 mkat (kg protein)−1]. The inducible desulfonation reaction was not detected initially in cell extracts. However, a strongly induced protein with subunits of 8 kDa (α) and 42 kDa (β) was found and purified. The corresponding genes had similarities to those encoding altronate dehydratases, which often require iron for activity. The purified enzyme could then be shown to convert 3-sulfolactate to sulfite and pyruvate and it was termed sulfolactate sulfo-lyase (Suy). A high level of sulfite dehydrogenase was also induced during growth with cysteate, and the organism excreted sulfate. A putative regulator, OrfR, was encoded upstream ofsuyABon the reverse strand. Downstream ofsuyABwassuyZ, which was cotranscribed withsuyB. The gene, an allele oftauZ, encoded a putative membrane protein with transmembrane helices (COG2855), and is a candidate to encode the sulfate exporter needed to maintain homeostasis during desulfonation.suyAB-like genes are widespread in sequenced genomes and environmental samples where, in contrast to the current annotation, several presumably encode the desulfonation of 3-sulfolactate, a component of bacterial spores.
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- Ulrike Rein
- Department of Biology, The University, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biology, The University, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biology, The University, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biology, The University, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Saarland University, Box 50 11 50, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Biology, The University, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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Paracoccus pantotrophus cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase is isolated under aerobic conditions from anaerobically grown cells in an inactive form. This state requires reductive activation to make it catalytically competent for nitrite reduction. In this work, we discuss the methods of this reductive activation and its consequences for the cell.
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- R S Zajicek
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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Quentmeier A, Hellwig P, Bardischewsky F, Wichmann R, Friedrich CG. Sulfide dehydrogenase activity of the monomeric flavoprotein SoxF of Paracoccus pantotrophus. Biochemistry 2005; 43:14696-703. [PMID: 15544340 DOI: 10.1021/bi048568y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Flavocytochrome c-sulfide dehydrogenases (FCSDs) are complexes of a flavoprotein with a c-type cytochrome performing hydrogen sulfide-dependent cytochrome c reduction in vitro. The amino acid sequence analysis revealed that the phylogenetic relationship of different flavoproteins reflected the relationship of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. The flavoprotein SoxF of Paracoccus pantotrophus is 29-67% identical to the flavoprotein subunit of FCSD of phototrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. Purification of SoxF yielded a homogeneous emerald-green monomeric protein of 42 797 Da. SoxF catalyzed sulfide-dependent horse heart cytochrome c reduction at the optimum pH of 6.0 with a k(cat) of 3.9 s(-1), a K(m) of 2.3 microM for sulfide, and a K(m) of 116 microM for cytochrome c, as determined by nonlinear regression analysis. The yield of 1.9 mol of cytochrome c reduced per mole of sulfide suggests sulfur or polysulfide as the product. Sulfide dehydrogenase activity of SoxF was inhibited by sulfur (K(i) = 1.3 microM) and inactivated by sulfite. Cyanide (1 mM) inhibited SoxF activity at pH 6.0 by 25% and at pH 8.0 by 92%. Redox titrations in the infrared spectral range from 1800 to 1200 cm(-1) and in the visible spectral range from 400 to 700 nm both yielded a midpoint potential for SoxF of -555 +/- 10 mV versus Ag/AgCl at pH 7.5 and -440 +/- 20 mV versus Ag/AgCl at pH 6.0 (-232 mV versus SHE') and a transfer of 1.9 electrons. Electrochemically induced FTIR difference spectra of SoxF as compared to those of free flavin in solution suggested a strong cofactor interaction with the apoprotein. Furthermore, an activation/variation of SoxF during the redox cycles is observed. This is the first report of a monomeric flavoprotein with sulfide dehydrogenase activity.
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- Armin Quentmeier
- Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Fachbereich Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen, Universität Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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Pauleta SR, Cooper A, Nutley M, Errington N, Harding S, Guerlesquin F, Goodhew CF, Moura I, Moura JJG, Pettigrew GW. A copper protein and a cytochrome bind at the same site on bacterial cytochrome c peroxidase. Biochemistry 2005; 43:14566-76. [PMID: 15544327 DOI: 10.1021/bi0485833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Pseudoazurin binds at a single site on cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus pantotrophus with a K(d) of 16.4 microM at 25 degrees C, pH 6.0, in an endothermic reaction that is driven by a large entropy change. Sedimentation velocity experiments confirmed the presence of a single site, although results at higher pseudoazurin concentrations are complicated by the dimerization of the protein. Microcalorimetry, ultracentrifugation, and (1)H NMR spectroscopy studies in which cytochrome c550, pseudoazurin, and cytochrome c peroxidase were all present could be modeled using a competitive binding algorithm. Molecular docking simulation of the binding of pseudoazurin to the peroxidase in combination with the chemical shift perturbation pattern for pseudoazurin in the presence of the peroxidase revealed a group of solutions that were situated close to the electron-transferring heme with Cu-Fe distances of about 14 A. This is consistent with the results of (1)H NMR spectroscopy, which showed that pseudoazurin binds closely enough to the electron-transferring heme of the peroxidase to perturb its set of heme methyl resonances. We conclude that cytochrome c550 and pseudoazurin bind at the same site on the cytochrome c peroxidase and that the pair of electrons required to restore the enzyme to its active state after turnover are delivered one-by-one to the electron-transferring heme.
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- Sofia R Pauleta
- Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Summerhall, UK
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Rasmussen T, Brittain T, Berks BC, Watmough NJ, Thomson AJ. Formation of a cytochrome c–nitrous oxide reductase complex is obligatory for N2O reduction by Paracoccus pantotrophus. Dalton Trans 2005:3501-6. [PMID: 16234931 DOI: 10.1039/b501846c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nitrous oxide reductase (N2OR) catalyses the final step of bacterial denitrification, the two-electron reduction of nitrous oxide (N2O) to dinitrogen (N2). N2OR contains two metal centers; a binuclear copper center, CuA, that serves to receive electrons from soluble donors, and a tetranuclear copper-sulfide center, CuZ, at the active site. Stopped flow experiments at low ionic strengths reveal rapid electron transfer (kobs=150 s-1) between reduced horse heart (HH) cytochrome c and the CuA center in fully oxidized N2OR. When fully reduced N2OR was mixed with oxidized cytochrome c, a similar rate of electron transfer was recorded for the reverse reaction, followed by a much slower internal electron transfer from CuZ to CuA(kobs=0.1-0.4 s-1). The internal electron transfer process is likely to represent the rate-determining step in the catalytic cycle. Remarkably, in the absence of cytochrome c, fully reduced N2OR is inert towards its substrate, even though sufficient electrons are stored to initiate a single turnover. However, in the presence of reduced cytochrome c and N2O, a single turnover occurs after a lag-phase. We propose that a conformational change in N2OR is induced by its specific interaction with cytochrome c that in turn either permits electron transfer between CuA and CuZ or controls the rate of N2O decomposition at the active site.
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- Tim Rasmussen
- Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ
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Field SJ, Thornton NP, Anderson LJ, Gates AJ, Reilly A, Jepson BJN, Richardson DJ, George SJ, Cheesman MR, Butt JN. Reductive activation of nitrate reductases. Dalton Trans 2005:3580-6. [PMID: 16234941 DOI: 10.1039/b505530j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Protein film voltammetry of Paracoccus pantotrophus respiratory nitrate reductase (NarGH) and Synechococcus elongatus assimilatory nitrate reductase (NarB) shows that reductive activation of these enzymes may be required before steady state catalysis is observed. For NarGH complementary spectroscopic studies suggest a structural context for the activation. Catalytic protein film voltammetry at a range of temperatures has allowed quantitation of the activation energies for nitrate reduction. For NarGH with an operating potential of ca. 0.05 V the activation energy of ca. 35 kJ mol-1 is over twice that measured for NarB whose operating potential is ca. -0.35 V.
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- Sarah J Field
- Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ
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Pauleta SR, Guerlesquin F, Goodhew CF, Devreese B, Van Beeumen J, Pereira AS, Moura I, Pettigrew GW. Paracoccus pantotrophus pseudoazurin is an electron donor to cytochrome c peroxidase. Biochemistry 2004; 43:11214-25. [PMID: 15366931 DOI: 10.1021/bi0491144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The gene for pseudoazurin was isolated from Paracoccus pantotrophus LMD 52.44 and expressed in a heterologous system with a yield of 54.3 mg of pure protein per liter of culture. The gene and protein were shown to be identical to those from P. pantotrophus LMD 82.5. The extinction coefficient of the protein was re-evaluated and was found to be 3.00 mM(-1) cm(-1) at 590 nm. It was confirmed that the oxidized protein is in a weak monomer/dimer equilibrium that is ionic-strength-dependent. The pseudoazurin was shown to be a highly active electron donor to cytochrome c peroxidase, and activity showed an ionic strength dependence consistent with an electrostatic interaction. The pseudoazurin has a very large dipole moment, the vector of which is positioned at the putative electron-transfer site, His81, and is conserved in this position across a wide range of blue copper proteins. Binding of the peroxidase to pseudoazurin causes perturbation of a set of NMR resonances associated with residues on the His81 face, including a ring of lysine residues. These lysines are associated with acidic residues just back from the rim, the resonances of which are also affected by binding to the peroxidase. We propose that these acidic residues moderate the electrostatic influence of the lysines and so ensure that specific charge interactions do not form across the interface with the peroxidase.
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- Sofia R Pauleta
- ReQuimte, Centro de Química Física e Biotecnologia, FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Oganesyan VS, Rasmussen T, Fairhurst S, Thomson AJ. Characterisation of [Cu4S], the catalytic site in nitrous oxide reductase, by EPR spectroscopy. Dalton Trans 2004:996-1002. [PMID: 15252678 DOI: 10.1039/b313913a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The enzyme nitrous oxide reductase (N(2)OR) has a unique tetranuclear copper centre [Cu(4)S], called Cu(Z), at the catalytic site for the two-electron reduction of N(2)O to N(2). The X- and Q-band EPR spectra have been recorded from two forms of the catalytic site of the enzyme N(2)OR from Paracoccus pantotrophus, namely, a form prepared anaerobically, Cu(Z), that undergoes a one-electron redox cycle and Cu(Z)*, prepared aerobically, which cannot be redox cycled. The spectra of both species are axial with that of Cu(Z) showing a rich hyperfine splitting in the g||-region at X-band. DFT calculations were performed to gain insight into the electronic configuration and ground-state properties of Cu(Z) and to calculate EPR parameters. The results for the oxidation state [Cu(+1)(3)Cu(+2)(1)S](3+) are in good agreement with values obtained from the fitting of experimental spectra, confirming the absolute oxidation state of Cu(Z). The unpaired spin density in this configuration is delocalised over four copper ions, thus, Cu(I) 20.1%, Cu(II) 9.5%, Cu(III) 4.8% and Cu(IV) 9.2%, the mu(4)-sulfide ion and oxygen ligand. The three copper ions carrying the highest spin density plus the sulfide ion lie approximately in the same plane while the fourth copper ion is perpendicular to this plane and carries only 4.8% spin density. It is suggested that the atoms in this plane represent the catalytic core of Cu(Z), allowing electron redistribution within the plane during interaction with the substrate, N(2)O.
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- Vasily S Oganesyan
- Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, Schools of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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