Nitrogenase cofactor biosynthesis using proteins produced in mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

Autor: Dobrzyńska K; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain.; Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaría y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Pérez-González A; Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA., Echavarri-Erasun C; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain.; Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaría y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Coroian D; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain., Salinero-Lanzarote A; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain., Veldhuizen M; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain., Dean DR; Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA., Burén S; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain.; Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaría y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Rubio LM; Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA/CSIC), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: MBio [mBio] 2024 Feb 14; Vol. 15 (2), pp. e0308823. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 21.
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03088-23
Abstrakt: Biological nitrogen fixation, the conversion of inert N 2 to metabolically tractable NH 3 , is only performed by certain microorganisms called diazotrophs and is catalyzed by the nitrogenases. A [7Fe-9S-C-Mo- R -homocitrate]-cofactor, designated FeMo-co, provides the catalytic site for N 2 reduction in the Mo-dependent nitrogenase. Thus, achieving FeMo-co formation in model eukaryotic organisms, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae , represents an important milestone toward endowing them with a capacity for Mo-dependent biological nitrogen fixation. A central player in FeMo-co assembly is the scaffold protein NifEN upon which processing of NifB-co, an [8Fe-9S-C] precursor produced by NifB, occurs. Prior work established that NifB-co can be produced in S. cerevisiae mitochondria. In the present work, a library of nifEN genes from diverse diazotrophs was expressed in S. cerevisiae , targeted to mitochondria, and surveyed for their ability to produce soluble NifEN protein complexes. Many such NifEN variants supported FeMo-co formation when heterologously produced in the diazotroph A. vinelandii . However, only three of them accumulated in soluble forms in mitochondria of aerobically cultured S. cerevisiae . Of these, two variants were active in the in vitro FeMo-co synthesis assay. NifEN, NifB, and NifH proteins from different species, all of them produced in and purified from S. cerevisiae mitochondria, were combined to establish successful FeMo-co biosynthetic pathways. These findings demonstrate that combining diverse interspecies nitrogenase FeMo-co assembly components could be an effective and, perhaps, the only approach to achieve and optimize nitrogen fixation in a eukaryotic organism.IMPORTANCEBiological nitrogen fixation, the conversion of inert N2 to metabolically usable NH3, is a process exclusive to diazotrophic microorganisms and relies on the activity of nitrogenases. The assembly of the nitrogenase [7Fe-9S-C-Mo- R -homocitrate]-cofactor (FeMo-co) in a eukaryotic cell is a pivotal milestone that will pave the way to engineer cereals with nitrogen fixing capabilities and therefore independent of nitrogen fertilizers. In this study, we identified NifEN protein complexes that were functional in the model eukaryotic organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae . NifEN is an essential component of the FeMo-co biosynthesis pathway. Furthermore, the FeMo-co biosynthetic pathway was recapitulated in vitro using only proteins expressed in S. cerevisiae . FeMo-co biosynthesis was achieved by combining nitrogenase FeMo-co assembly components from different species, a promising strategy to engineer nitrogen fixation in eukaryotic organisms.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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