| Autor: |
McIver, Lisa, Leadbeater, Claire, Campopiano, Dominic J., Baxter, Robert L., Daff, Simon N., Chapman, Stephen K., Munro, Andrew W. |
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European Journal of Biochemistry; Nov98 Part 1, Vol. 257 Issue 3, p577-585, 9p, 4 Black and White Photographs, 6 Charts, 5 Graphs |
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The genes encoding the Escherichia coli flavodoxin NADP+ oxidoreductase (FLDR) and flavodoxin (FLD) have been overexpressed in E. coli as the major cell proteins (at least 13.5 % and 11.4 % of total soluble protein, respectively) and the gene products purified to homogeneity. The FLDR reduces potassium ferricyanide with a kcat of 1610.3 min-1 and a Km of 23.6 μM, and cytochrome c with a kcat of 141.3 min-1 and a Km of 17.6 μM. The cytochrome c reductase rate is increased sixfold by addition of FLD and an apparent Km of 6.84 μM was measured for the affinity of the two flavoproteins. The molecular masses of FLDR and FLD apoproteins were determined as 27 648 Da and 19 606 Da and the isolectric points as 4.8 and 3.5, respectively. The mass of the FLDR is precisely that predicted from the atomic structure and indicates that residue 126 is arginine, not glutamine as predicted from the gene sequence. FLDR and FLD were covalently crosslinked using 1-ethyl-3(dimethylamino-propyl) carbodiimide to generate a catalytically active heterodimer. The midpoint reduction potentials of the oxidised/semiquinone and semiquinone/hydroquinone couples of both FLDR (-308 mV and -268 mV, respectively) and FLD (-254 mV and -433 mV, respectively) were measured using redox potentiometry. This confirms the electron-transfer route as NADPH←FLDR←FLD. Binding of 2′ adenosine monophosphate increases the midpoint reduction potentials for both FLDR couples. These data highlight the strong stabilisation of the flavodoxin semiquinone (absorption coefficient calculated as 4933 M-1 cm-1 at 583 nm) with respect to the hydroquinone state and indicate that FLD must act as a single electron shuttle from the semiquinone form in its support of cellular functions, and to facilitate catalytic activity of microsomal cytochromes P-450 heterologously expressed in E.... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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