THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI CYSG GENE ENCODES THE MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROTEIN, SIROHEME SYNTHASE

被引:74
作者
SPENCER, JB [1 ]
STOLOWICH, NJ [1 ]
ROESSNER, CA [1 ]
SCOTT, AI [1 ]
机构
[1] TEXAS A&M UNIV,CTR BIOL NMR,DEPT CHEM,COLLEGE STN,TX 77843
关键词
SIROHEME; DEHYDROGENASE; SIROHYDROCHLORIN; FERROCHELATASE; NAD(+);
D O I
10.1016/0014-5793(93)80438-Z
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Previously, the E. coli cysG gene product had been shown to sequentially methylate uro'gen III to produce precorrin-2, hence it was given the trivial name uro'gen III methylase. We now report that in addition to methylase activity, the CysG protein catalyses both the NAD(+) dependent oxidation of precorrin-2 to sirohydrochlorin, but also the insertion of iron into this oxidized intermediate, thereby producing siroheme. Thus CysG is a multifunctional protein solely responsible for siroheme synthesis from uro'gen III in E. coli, and accordingly is renamed siroheme synthase.
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