The deoxyxylulose phosphate pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis: Studies on the mechanisms of the reactions catalyzed by IspG and IspH protein

Autor: Stefan Hecht, Adelbert Bacher, Felix Rohdich, Petra Adam, Tobias Gräwert, Duilio Arigoni, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Johannes Kaiser, Sabine Amslinger, Ralf Laupitz, Ferdinand Zepeck
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100:1586-1591
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0337742100
Popis: Earlier in vivo studies have shown that the sequential action of the IspG and IspH proteins is essential for the reductive transformation of 2 C -methyl- d -erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate into dimethylallyl diphosphate and isopentenyl diphosphate via 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( E )-butenyl 4-diphosphate. A recombinant fusion protein comprising maltose binding protein and IspG protein domains was purified from a recombinant Escherichia coli strain. The purified protein failed to transform 2 C -methyl- d -erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate into 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( E )-butenyl 4-diphosphate, but catalytic activity could be restored by the addition of crude cell extract from an ispG -deficient E. coli mutant. This indicates that auxiliary proteins are required, probably as shuttles for redox equivalents. On activation by photoreduced 10-methyl-5-deaza-isoalloxazine, the recombinant protein catalyzed the formation of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( E )-butenyl 4-diphosphate from 2 C -methyl- d -erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate at a rate of 1 nmol⋅min −1 ⋅mg −1 . Similarly, activation by photoreduced 10-methyl-5-deaza-isoalloxazine enabled purified IspH protein to catalyze the conversion of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( E )-butenyl 4-diphosphate into a 6:1 mixture of isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate at a rate of 0.4 μmol⋅min −1 ⋅mg −1 . IspH protein could also be activated by a mixture of flavodoxin, flavodoxin reductase, and NADPH at a rate of 3 nmol⋅min −1 ⋅mg −1 . The striking similarities of IspG and IspH protein are discussed, and plausible mechanistic schemes are proposed for the two reactions.
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