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Zhang C, Zhang B, Mu B, Zheng X, Zhao F, Lan W, Fu A, Luan S. A Thylakoid Membrane Protein Functions Synergistically with GUN5 in Chlorophyll Biosynthesis. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2020; 1:100094. [PMID: 33367259 PMCID: PMC7747962 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2020.100094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Chlorophyll (Chl) is essential for photosynthetic reactions and chloroplast development. While the enzymatic pathway for Chl biosynthesis is well established, the regulatory mechanism underlying the homeostasis of Chl levels remains largely unknown. In this study, we identified CBD1 (Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Defect1), which functions in the regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis. The CBD1 gene was expressed specifically in green tissues and its protein product was embedded in the thylakoid membrane. Furthermore, CBD1 was precisely co-expressed and functionally correlated with GUN5 (Genome Uncoupled 5). Analysis of chlorophyll metabolic intermediates indicated that cbd1 and cbd1gun5 mutants over-accumulated magnesium protoporphyrin IX (Mg-Proto IX). In addition, the cbd1 mutant thylakoid contained less Mg than the wild type not only as a result of lower Chl content, but also implicating CBD1 in Mg transport. This was supported by the finding that CBD1 complemented a Mg2+ uptake-deficient Salmonella strain under low Mg conditions. Taken together, these results indicate that CBD1 functions synergistically with CHLH/GUN5 in Mg-Proto IX processing, and may serve as a Mg-transport protein to maintain Mg homeostasis in the chloroplast.
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- Chi Zhang
- The Key Laboratory of Western Resources Biology and Biological Technology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
- Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Western Resources Biology and Biological Technology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
- Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore 117604, Republic of Singapore
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- The Key Laboratory of Western Resources Biology and Biological Technology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University-Nanjing Forestry University Joint Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Corresponding author
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- The Key Laboratory of Western Resources Biology and Biological Technology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
- Corresponding author
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Corresponding author
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Sawicki A, Willows RD. BchJ and BchM interact in a 1 : 1 ratio with the magnesium chelatase BchH subunit of Rhodobacter capsulatus. FEBS J 2010; 277:4709-21. [PMID: 20955518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07877.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Substrate channeling between the enzymatic steps in the (bacterio)chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway catalyzed by magnesium chelatase (BchI/ChlI, BchD/ChlD and BchH/ChlH subunits) and S-adenosyl-L-methionine:magnesium-protoporphyrin IX O-methyltransferase (BchM/ChlM) has been suggested. This involves delivery of magnesium-protoporphyrin IX from the BchH/ChlH subunit of magnesium chelatase to BchM/ChlM. Stimulation of BchM/ChlM activity by BchH/ChlH has previously been shown, and physical interaction of the two proteins has been demonstrated. In plants and cyanobacteria, there is an added layer of complexity, as Gun4 serves as a porphyrin (protoporphyrin IX and magnesium-protoporphyrin IX) carrier, but this protein does not exist in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. BchJ may play a similar role to Gun4 in Rhodobacter, as it has no currently assigned function in the established pathway. Purified recombinant Rhodobacter capsulatus BchJ and BchM were found to cause a shift in the equilibrium amount of Mg-protoporphyrin IX formed in a magnesium chelatase assay. Analysis of this shift revealed that it was always in a 1 : 1 ratio with either of these proteins and the BchH subunit of the magnesium chelatase. The establishment of the new equilibrium was faster with BchM than with BchJ in a coupled magnesium chelatase assay. BchJ bound magnesium-protoporphyrin IX or formed a ternary complex with BchH and magnesium-protoporphyrin IX. These results suggest that BchJ may play a role as a general magnesium porphyrin carrier, similar to one of the roles of GUN4 in oxygenic organisms.
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- Artur Sawicki
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Johnson ET, Schmidt-Dannert C. Characterization of Three Homologs of the Large Subunit of the Magnesium Chelatase from Chlorobaculum tepidum and Interaction with the Magnesium Protoporphyrin IX Methyltransferase. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:27776-27784. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m804486200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Sawicki A, Willows RD. Kinetic analyses of the magnesium chelatase provide insights into the mechanism, structure, and formation of the complex. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:31294-302. [PMID: 18790730 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m805792200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The metabolic pathway known as (bacterio)chlorophyll biosynthesis is initiated by magnesium chelatase (BchI, BchD, BchH). This first step involves insertion of magnesium into protoporphyrin IX (proto), a process requiring ATP hydrolysis. Structural information shows that the BchI and BchD subunits form a double hexameric enzyme complex, whereas BchH binds proto and can be purified as BchH-proto. We utilized the Rhodobacter capsulatus magnesium chelatase subunits using continuous magnesium chelatase assays and treated the BchD subunit as the enzyme with both BchI and BchH-proto as substrates. Michaelis-Menten kinetics was observed with the BchI subunit, whereas the BchH subunit exhibited sigmoidal kinetics (Hill coefficient of 1.85). The BchI.BchD complex had intrinsic ATPase activity, and addition of BchH greatly increased ATPase activity. This was concentration-dependent and gave sigmoidal kinetics, indicating there is more than one binding site for the BchH subunit on the BchI.BchD complex. ATPase activity was approximately 40-fold higher than magnesium chelatase activity and continued despite cessation of magnesium chelation, implying one or more secondary roles for ATP hydrolysis and possibly an as yet unknown switch required to terminate ATPase activity. One of the secondary roles for BchH-stimulated ATP hydrolysis by a BchI.BchD complex is priming of BchH to facilitate correct binding of proto to BchH in a form capable of participating in magnesium chelation. This porphyrin binding is the rate-limiting step in catalysis. These data suggest that ATP hydrolysis by the BchI.BchD complex causes a series of conformational changes in BchH to effect substrate binding, magnesium chelation, and product release.
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- Artur Sawicki
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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Sawicki A, Willows R. S-adenosyl-L-methionine:magnesium-protoporphyrin IX O-methyltransferase from Rhodobacter capsulatus: mechanistic insights and stimulation with phospholipids. Biochem J 2007; 406:469-78. [PMID: 17594291 PMCID: PMC2049041 DOI: 10.1042/bj20070284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2007] [Revised: 05/21/2007] [Accepted: 06/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The enzyme BchM (S-adenosyl-L-methionine:magnesium-protoporphyrin IX O-methyltransferase) from Rhodobacter capsulatus catalyses an intermediate reaction in the bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic pathway. Overexpression of His(6)-tagged protein in Escherichia coli resulted in the majority of polypeptide existing as inclusion bodies. Purification from inclusion bodies was performed using metal-affinity chromatography after an elaborate wash step involving surfactant polysorbate-20. Initial enzymatic assays involved an in situ generation of S-adenosyl-L-methionine substrate using a crude preparation of S-adenosyl-L-methionine synthetase and this resulted in higher enzymatic activity compared with commercial S-adenosyl-L-methionine. A heat-stable stimulatory component present in the S-adenosyl-L-methionine synthetase was found to be a phospholipid, which increased enzymatic activity 3-4-fold. Purified phospholipids also stabilized enzymatic activity and caused a disaggregation of the protein to lower molecular mass forms, which ranged from monomeric to multimeric species as determined by size-exclusion chromatography. There was no stimulatory effect observed with magnesium-chelatase subunits on methyltransferase activity using His-BchM that had been stabilized with phospholipids. Substrate specificity of the enzyme was limited to 5-co-ordinate square-pyramidal metalloporphyrins, with magnesium-protoporphyrin IX being the superior substrate followed by zinc-protoporphyrin IX and magnesium-deuteroporphyrin. Kinetic analysis indicated a random sequential reaction mechanism. Three non-substrate metalloporphyrins acted as inhibitors with different modes of inhibition exhibited with manganese III-protoporphyrin IX (non-competitive or uncompetitive) compared with cobalt II-protoporphyrin IX (competitive).
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Key Words
- bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis
- bchm
- magnesium–chelatase
- methyltransferase
- phosphatidylglycerol
- rhodobacter capsulatus
- bchm, s-adenosyl-l-methionine:magnesium-protoporphyrin ix o-methyltransferase
- dopg, dioleoyl (c18:1)2 phosphatidylglycerol
- dppg, dipalmitoyl (c16:0)2 phosphatidylglycerol
- dtt, dithiothreitol
- hisbchm, his16-tagged bchm
- mg-deutero, magnesium-deuteroporphyrin
- mg-proto, magnesium-protoporphyrin ix
- mgpe, magnesium-protoporphyrin ix monomethyl ester
- pe, phosphatidylethanolamine
- pg, phosphatidylglycerol
- popg, palmitoyl-oleoyl (c18:1,16:0) phosphatidylglycerol
- sah, s-adenosylhomocysteine
- sam, s-adenosyl-l-methionine
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- Artur Sawicki
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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Pontier D, Albrieux C, Joyard J, Lagrange T, Block M. Knock-out of the magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase gene in Arabidopsis. Effects on chloroplast development and on chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling. J Biol Chem 2006; 282:2297-304. [PMID: 17135235 PMCID: PMC2408936 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m610286200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Protoporphyrin IX is the last common intermediate between the heme and chlorophyll biosynthesis pathways. The addition of magnesium directs this molecule toward chlorophyll biosynthesis. The first step downstream from the branchpoint is catalyzed by the magnesium chelatase and is a highly regulated process. The corresponding product, magnesium protoporphyrin IX, has been proposed to play an important role as a signaling molecule implicated in plastid-to-nucleus communication. To get more information on the chlorophyll biosynthesis pathway and on magnesium protoporphyrin IX derivative functions, we have identified an magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase (CHLM) knock-out mutant in Arabidopsis in which the mutation induces a blockage downstream from magnesium protoporphyrin IX and an accumulation of this chlorophyll biosynthesis intermediate. Our results demonstrate that the CHLM gene is essential for the formation of chlorophyll and subsequently for the formation of photosystems I and II and cytochrome b6f complexes. Analysis of gene expression in the chlm mutant provides an independent indication that magnesium protoporphyrin IX is a negative effector of nuclear photosynthetic gene expression, as previously reported. Moreover, it suggests the possible implication of magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyl ester, the product of CHLM, in chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling. Finally, post-transcriptional up-regulation of the level of the CHLH subunit of the magnesium chelatase has been detected in the chlm mutant and most likely corresponds to specific accumulation of this protein inside plastids. This result suggests that the CHLH subunit might play an important regulatory role when the chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway is disrupted at this particular step.
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- Dominique Pontier
- LGDP, Laboratoire Génome et développement des plantes
CNRS : UMR5096IRD : UR121Université de PerpignanBat. C
52 Av de Villeneuve
66860 PERPIGNAN CEDEX,FR
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- LPCV, Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire végétale
CNRS : UMR5168INRA : UR1200CEA : DSV/IRTSVUniversité Joseph Fourier - Grenoble Ibat. C2
17 Rue des martyrs
38054 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9,FR
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- LPCV, Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire végétale
CNRS : UMR5168INRA : UR1200CEA : DSV/IRTSVUniversité Joseph Fourier - Grenoble Ibat. C2
17 Rue des martyrs
38054 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9,FR
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- LGDP, Laboratoire Génome et développement des plantes
CNRS : UMR5096IRD : UR121Université de PerpignanBat. C
52 Av de Villeneuve
66860 PERPIGNAN CEDEX,FR
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- LPCV, Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire végétale
CNRS : UMR5168INRA : UR1200CEA : DSV/IRTSVUniversité Joseph Fourier - Grenoble Ibat. C2
17 Rue des martyrs
38054 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9,FR
- * Correspondence should be adressed to: Maryse Block
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Granick S, Beale SI. Hemes, chlorophylls, and related compounds: biosynthesis and metabolic regulation. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 46:33-203. [PMID: 345768 DOI: 10.1002/9780470122914.ch2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The importance of chlorophyll (Chl) to the process of photosynthesis is obvious, and there is clear evidence that the regulation of Chl biosynthesis has a significant role in the regulation of assembly of the photosynthetic apparatus. The understanding of Chl biosynthesis has rapidly advanced in recent years. The identification of genetic loci associated with each of the biochemical steps has been accompanied by a greater appreciation of the role of Chl biosynthesis intermediates in intracellular signaling. The purpose of this review is to provide a source of information for all the steps in Chl and bacteriochlorophyll a biosynthesis, with an emphasis on steps that are believed to be key regulation points.
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- David W Bollivar
- Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, USA.
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Walsh CT, Garneau-Tsodikova S, Howard-Jones AR. Biological formation of pyrroles: Nature's logic and enzymatic machinery. Nat Prod Rep 2006; 23:517-31. [PMID: 16874387 DOI: 10.1039/b605245m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 360] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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- Christopher T Walsh
- Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Purified recombinant proteins from Synechocystis PCC6803 were used to show that the magnesium chelatase ChlH subunit stimulates magnesium protoporphyrin methyltransferase (ChlM) activity. Steady-state kinetics demonstrate that ChlH does not significantly alter the K(m) for the tetrapyrrole substrate. However, quenched-flow analysis reveals that ChlH dramatically accelerates the formation and breakdown of an intermediate in the catalytic cycle of ChlM. In light of the profound effect that ChlH has on the methyltransferase catalytic intermediate, the pre steady-state analysis in the current study suggests that ChlH is directly involved in the reaction chemistry. The kinetic coupling between the chelatase and methyltransferase has important implications for regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis and for the availability of magnesium protoporphyrin for plastid-to-nucleus signalling.
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- Mark Shepherd
- Robert Hill Institute for Photosynthesis and Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK.
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Nogaj LA, Beale SI. Physical and kinetic interactions between glutamyl-tRNA reductase and glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:24301-7. [PMID: 15890644 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m502483200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In plants, algae, and most bacteria, the heme and chlorophyll precursor 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is formed from glutamate in a three-step process. First, glutamate is ligated to its cognate tRNA by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase. Activated glutamate is then converted to a glutamate 1-semialdehyde (GSA) by glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GTR) in an NADPH-dependent reaction. Subsequently, GSA is rearranged to ALA by glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase (GSAT). The intermediate GSA is highly unstable under physiological conditions. We have used purified recombinant GTR and GSAT from the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to show that GTR and GSAT form a physical and functional complex that allows channeling of GSA between the enzymes. Co-immunoprecipitation and sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation results indicate that recombinant GTR and GSAT enzymes specifically interact. In vivo cross-linking results support the in vitro results and demonstrate that GTR and GSAT are components of a high molecular mass complex in C. reinhardtii cells. In a coupled enzyme assay containing GTR and wild-type GSAT, addition of inactive mutant GSAT inhibited ALA formation from glutamyl-tRNA. Mutant GSAT did not inhibit ALA formation from GSA by wild-type GSAT. These results suggest that there is competition between wild-type and mutant GSAT for binding to GTR and channeling GSA from GTR to GSAT. Further evidence supporting kinetic interaction of GTR and GSAT is the observation that both wild-type and mutant GSAT stimulate glutamyl-tRNA-dependent NADPH oxidation by GTR.
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- Luiza A Nogaj
- Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Alawady A, Reski R, Yaronskaya E, Grimm B. Cloning and expression of the tobacco CHLM sequence encoding Mg protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase and its interaction with Mg chelatase. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 57:679-91. [PMID: 15988563 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-1427-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2005] [Accepted: 01/29/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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S-adenosyl-L-methionine:Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase (MgPMT) is an enzyme in the Mg branch of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway. The nucleotide sequence of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) CHLM was identified and the cDNA sequence was used to express the precursor, the mature and a truncated recombinant MgPMT for enzymatic activity tests and for the formation of polyclonal antibodies. Comparison of the mature and the truncated MgPMT revealed three critical amino acids at the N-terminus of MgPMT for the maintenance of enzyme activity. To assess the contribution of CHLM expression to the control of the metabolic flow in the tetrapyrrole pathway, CHLM transcripts and protein levels, the enzyme activity and the steady-state levels of Mg protoporphyrin and Mg protoporphyrin monomethylester were analysed during greening of seedlings and plant development as well as under day/night and continuous growth conditions. These expression studies revealed posttranslational activation of MgPMT during greening and light/dark-cycles. Using the yeast two-hybrid system physical interaction was demonstrated between MgPMT and the CHLH subunit of Mg chelatase. Activity of recombinant MgPMT expressed in yeast cells was stimulated in the presence of the recombinant CHLH subunit. Implications for posttranslational regulation of MgPMT are discussed for the enzymatic steps at the beginning of the Mg branch.
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- Ali Alawady
- Institut für Biologie, Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt Universität, Philippstr.13, Haus 12, 10115 Berlin, Deutschland
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Alawady AE, Grimm B. Tobacco Mg protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase is involved in inverse activation of Mg porphyrin and protoheme synthesis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 41:282-90. [PMID: 15634204 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02291.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Protoporphyrin, a metabolic intermediate of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, is metabolized by Mg chelatase and ferrochelatase and is directed into the Mg-branch for chlorophyll synthesis and in the Fe-branch for protoheme synthesis respectively. Regulation of the enzyme activities at the beginning of this branchpoint ensures accurate partition of protoporphyrin, but is still not entirely understood. Transgenic tobacco plants were generated that express antisense or sense RNA for inhibited and excessive expression of Mg protoporphyrin methyltransferase (MgPMT) respectively. This enzyme accepts Mg protoporphyrin from Mg chelatase and catalyses the transfer of a methyl group to the carboxyl group of the C13-propionate side chain. Low MgPMT activity is correlated with reduced Mg chelatase activity and a low synthesis rate of 5-aminolevulinate, but with enhanced ferrochelatase activity. In contrast, high MgPMT activity leads to inverse activity profiles: high activities of Mg chelatase and for 5-aminolevulinate synthesis, but reduced activity of ferrochelatase, indicating a direct influence of MgPMT in combination with Mg chelatase on the metabolic flux of ALA and the distribution of protoporphyrin into the branched pathway. The modified enzyme activities in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in the transgenic plants can be explained with changes of certain corresponding mRNA contents: increased 5-aminolevulinate synthesis and Mg chelatase activity correlate with enhanced transcript levels of the HemA, Gsa, and CHLH gene encoding glutamyl-tRNA reductase, glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase and a Mg chelatase subunit respectively. It is proposed that reduced and increased MgPMT activity in chloroplasts is communicated to the cytoplasm for modulating transcriptional activities of regulatory enzymes of the pathway.
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- Ali E Alawady
- Institut für Biologie/Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr.13, Haus 12, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Yaronskaya E, Ziemann V, Walter G, Averina N, Börner T, Grimm B. Metabolic control of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway for porphyrin distribution in the barley mutant albostrians. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2003; 35:512-522. [PMID: 12904213 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2003.01825.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The barley line albostrians exhibits a severe block in chloroplast development as a result of a mutationally induced lack of plastid ribosomes. White leaves of this mutant contain undifferentiated plastids, possess only traces of chlorophyll (Chl), and are photosynthetically inactive. Chl deficiency, combined with a continuous heme requirement, should lead to drastic changes in the tetrapyrrole metabolism in white versus green leaves. We analyzed the extent to which the synthesis rate of the pathway and the porphyrin distribution toward the Chl- and heme-synthesizing bifurcation is altered in the white tissue of albostrians. Expression and activity of several distinctively regulated enzymes, such as glutamyl-tRNAglu reductase, glutamate 1-semialdehyde aminotransferase, Mg- and Fe-chelatase, and Chl synthetase, were altered in white mutant leaves in comparison to control leaves. A drastic loss in the rate-limiting formation of 5-aminolevulinate and in the Mg-chelatase and Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase activity, as well as an increase in Fe-chelatase activity, accounts for a decrease in the metabolic flux and the re-direction of metabolites. It is proposed that the tightly balanced control of activities in the pathway functions by different metabolic feedback loops and in response to developmental state and physiological requirements. This data supports the idea that the initial steps of Mg-porphyrin synthesis contribute to plastid-derived signaling toward the nucleus. The barley mutant albostrians proved to be a valuable system for studying regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and their involvement in the bi-directional communication between plastids and nucleus.
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- Elena Yaronskaya
- Institut für Biologie/Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt Universität, 10155 Berlin, Germany
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Shepherd M, Reid JD, Hunter CN. Purification and kinetic characterization of the magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase from Synechocystis PCC6803. Biochem J 2003; 371:351-60. [PMID: 12489983 PMCID: PMC1223276 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2002] [Revised: 11/21/2002] [Accepted: 12/18/2002] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase (ChlM), catalyses the methylation of magnesium protoporphyrin IX (MgP) at the C(6) propionate side chain to form magnesium protoporphyrin IX monomethylester (MgPME). Threading methods biased by sequence similarity and predicted secondary structure have been used to assign this enzyme to a particular class of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-binding proteins. These searches suggest that ChlM contains a seven-stranded beta-sheet, common among small-molecule methyltransferases. Steady-state kinetic assays were performed using magnesium deuteroporphyrin IX (MgD), a more water-soluble substrate analogue of MgP. Initial rate studies showed that the reaction proceeds via a ternary complex. Product (S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine; SAH) inhibition was used to investigate the kinetic mechanism further. SAH was shown to exhibit competitive inhibition with respect to SAM, and mixed inhibition with respect to MgD. This is indicative of a random binding mechanism, whereby SAH may bind productively to either free enzyme or a ChlM-MgD complex. Our results provide an overview of the steady-state kinetics for this enzyme, which are significant given the role of MgP and MgPME in plastid-to-nucleus signalling and their likely critical role in the regulation of this biosynthetic pathway.
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- Mark Shepherd
- Robert Hill Institute for Photosynthesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Firth Court, Western Bank, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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The synthesis of magnesium and zinc protoporphyrin IX and their monomethyl esters in etioplast preparations studied by high pressure liquid chromatography. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(80)80646-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Karger GA, Reid JD, Hunter CN. Characterization of the binding of deuteroporphyrin IX to the magnesium chelatase H subunit and spectroscopic properties of the complex. Biochemistry 2001; 40:9291-9. [PMID: 11478896 DOI: 10.1021/bi010562a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Magnesium protoporphyrin chelatase catalyzes the insertion of a Mg(2+) ion into protoporphyrin IX, which can be considered as the first committed step of (bacterio)chlorophyll synthesis. In the present work, the Mg chelatase H subunits from both Synechocystis and Rhodobacter sphaeroides were studied because of the differing requirements of these organisms for modified cyclic tetrapyrroles. Deuteroporphyrin was shown to be a substrate for Mg chelatase. Analytical HPLC gel filtration was used to show that an H-deuteroporphyrin complex can be reconstituted by incubating the magnesium chelatase H subunit with a molar excess of deuteroporphyrin and that these complexes are monomers. The binding process occurs in the absence of Mg(2+) or ATP or the I or D subunits of Mg chelatase. The emission from Trp residues in the H subunit is partly quenched when deuteroporphyrin is bound. Quantitative analysis of Trp fluorescence quenching led to determination of the K(d) values for deuteroporphyrin binding to BchH from Rb. sphaeroides and ChlH from Synechocystis, which are 1.22 +/- 0.42 microM and 0.53 +/- 0.12 microM for ChlH and BchH, respectively. In the case of ChlH, but not BchH, the K(d) increased 4-fold in the presence of MgATP(2-). Red shifts in absorbance and excitation peaks were observed in the B band of the bound porphyrin in comparison with deuteroporphyrin in solution, as well as reduced yield and red shifts of up to 8 nm in fluorescence emission. These alterations are consistent with a slightly deformed nonplanar conformation of the bound porphyrin. Mg deuteroporphyrin, the product of the Mg chelation reaction, was shown to form a complex with either ChlH or BchH; in each case the K(d) for Mg deuteroporphyrin is similar to that for deuteroporphyrin. The implications of the H-Mg protoporphyrin interaction for the next enzyme in the chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway, Mg protoporphyrin methyltransferase, are discussed.
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- G A Karger
- Robert Hill Institute for Photosynthesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Papenbrock J, Mock HP, Tanaka R, Kruse E, Grimm B. Role of magnesium chelatase activity in the early steps of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2000; 122:1161-9. [PMID: 10759511 PMCID: PMC58950 DOI: 10.1104/pp.122.4.1161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/1999] [Accepted: 12/27/1999] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Magnesium-protoporphyrin IX chelatase (Mg-chelatase) is located at the branchpoint of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, at which point protoporphyrin IX is distributed for the synthesis of chlorophyll and heme. We investigated the regulatory contribution of Mg-chelatase to the flow of metabolites. In plants, the enzyme complex consists of three subunits, designated CHL D, CHL I, and CHL H. Transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants expressing antisense RNA for the Mg-chelatase subunit CHL H were analyzed to elucidate further the role of Mg-chelatase in the distribution of protoporphyrin IX into the branched tetrapyrrolic pathway. The transgenic plants displayed a reduced growth rate and chlorophyll deficiency. Both phenotypical properties were correlated with lower Mg-chelatase activity. Unexpectedly, less protoporphyrin IX and heme accumulated, and a decrease in 5-aminolevulinate (ALA)-synthesizing capacity and ALA dehydratase activity paralleled the progressive reduction in Mg-chelatase activity in the transformants compared with control plants. The reduced activities of the early enzymatic steps corresponded with lower levels of transcripts encoding glutamyl-tRNA reductase and ALA-dehydratase. The decreased expression and activities of early enzymes in the pathway could be explained by a feedback-controlled mechanism in response to lower Mg-chelatase activity. We discuss intercompartmental signaling that synchronizes the activities of the first steps in tetrapyrrolic metabolism with the late steps for the synthesis of end products.
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- J Papenbrock
- Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Jensen PE, Gibson LC, Shephard F, Smith V, Hunter CN. Introduction of a new branchpoint in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in Escherichia coli by co-expression of genes encoding the chlorophyll-specific enzymes magnesium chelatase and magnesium protoporphyrin methyltransferase. FEBS Lett 1999; 455:349-54. [PMID: 10437802 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00909-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The genes encoding the three Mg chelatase subunits, ChlH, ChlI and ChlD, from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 were all cloned in the same pET9a-based Escherichia coli expression plasmid, forming an artificial chlH-I-D operon under the control of the strong T7 promoter. When a soluble extract from IPTG-induced E. coli cells containing the pET9a-ChlHID plasmid was assayed for Mg chelatase activity in vitro, a high activity was obtained, suggesting that all three subunits are present in a soluble and active form. The chlM gene of Synechocystis PCC6803 was also cloned in a pET-based E. coli expression vector. Soluble extract from an E. coli strain expressing chlM converted Mg-protoporphyrin IX to Mg-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester, demonstrating that chlM encodes the Mg-protoporphyrin methyltransferase of Synechocystis. Co-expression of the chlM gene together with the chlH-I-D construct yielded soluble protein extracts which converted protoporphyrin IX to Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester without detectable accumulation of the Mg-protoporphyrin IX intermediate. Thus, active Mg chelatase and Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase can be coupled in E. coli extracts. Purified ChlI, -D and -H subunits in combination with purified ChlM protein were subsequently used to demonstrate in vitro that a molar ratio of ChlM to ChlH of 1 to 1 results in conversion of protoporphyrin IX to Mg-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester without significant accumulation of Mg-protoporphyrin.
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- P E Jensen
- Department of Plant Biology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Gibson LC, Jensen PE, Hunter CN. Magnesium chelatase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: initial characterization of the enzyme using purified subunits and evidence for a BchI-BchD complex. Biochem J 1999; 337 ( Pt 2):243-51. [PMID: 9882621 PMCID: PMC1219958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The enzyme magnesium-protoporphyrin IX chelatase (Mg chelatase) catalyses the insertion of Mg into protoporphyrin IX, the first committed step in (bacterio)chlorophyll biosynthesis. In the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, this reaction is catalysed by the products of the bchI, bchD and bchH genes. These genes have been expressed in Escherichia coli so that the BchI, BchD and BchH proteins are produced with N-terminal His6 affinity tags, which has led to the production of large amounts of highly purified, highly active Mg chelatase subunits from a single chromatography step. Furthermore, BchD has been purifed free of contamination with the chaperone GroEL, which had proven to be a problem in the past. BchD, present largely as an insoluble protein in E. coli, was purified in 6 M urea and refolded by addition of BchI, MgCl2 and ATP, yielding highly active protein. BchI/BchD mixtures prepared in this way were used in conjunction with BchH to determine the kinetic parameters of R. sphaeroides Mg chelatase for its natural substrates. We have been able to demonstrate for the first time that BchI and BchD form a complex, and that Mg2+ and ATP are required to establish and maintain this complex. Gel filtration data suggest that BchI and BchD form a complex of molecular mass 200 kDa in the presence of Mg2+ and ATP. Our data suggest that, in vivo, BchD is only folded correctly and maintained in its correct conformation in the presence of BchI, Mg2+ and ATP.
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- L C Gibson
- Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research and Robert Hill Institute for Photosynthesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K.
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Temperature-stress-induced impairment of chlorophyll biosynthetic reactions in cucumber and wheat. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 117:851-8. [PMID: 9662527 PMCID: PMC34939 DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.3.851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/1998] [Accepted: 03/11/1998] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Chlorophyll (Chl) biosynthesis in chill (7 degreesC)- and heat (42 degreesC)-stressed cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv poinsette) seedlings was affected by 90 and 60%, respectively. Inhibition of Chl biosynthesis was partly due to impairment of 5-aminolevulinic acid biosynthesis both in chill- (78%) and heat-stress (70%) conditions. Protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) synthesis in chill- and heat-stressed seedlings was inhibited by 90 and 70%, respectively. Severe inhibition of Pchlide biosynthesis in chill-stressed seedlings was caused by inactivations of all of the enzymes involved in protoporphyrin IX (Proto IX) synthesis, Mg-chelatase, and Mg-protoporphyrin IX monoester cyclase. In heat-stressed seedlings, although 5-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase and porphobilinogen deaminase were partially inhibited, one of the porphyrinogen-oxidizing enzymes, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase, was stimulated and coproporphyrinogen oxidase and protoporphyrinogen oxidase were not substantially affected, which demonstrated that protoporphyrin IX synthesis was relatively more resistant to heat stress. Pchlide oxidoreductase, which is responsible for phototransformation of Pchlide to chlorophyllide, increased in heat-stress conditions by 46% over that of the control seedlings, whereas it was not affected in chill-stressed seedlings. In wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv HD2329) seedlings porphobilinogen deaminase, Pchlide synthesis, and Pchlide oxidoreductase were affected in a manner similar to that of cucumber, suggesting that temperature stress has a broadly similar effect on Chl biosynthetic enzymes in both cucumber and wheat.
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Kruse E, Mock HP, Grimm B. Isolation and characterisation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cDNA clones encoding proteins involved in magnesium chelation into protoporphyrin IX. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1997; 35:1053-6. [PMID: 9426628 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005913315905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We have identified cDNA clones encoding the two Mg chelatase subunits CHL I and CHL H from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) by screening a cDNA library with homologous cDNA fragments from Arabidopsis thaliana. A full-length Chl I cDNA clone encodes a peptide with 426 amino acids. The entire cDNA sequence encoding 1382 amino acid long CHL H was obtained by extension of a truncated cDNA fragment using the 'rapid amplification of cDNA ends' (RACE) method. Both genes Chl I and Chl H were strongly expressed in young leaves and to a lesser extent in mature leaves. Only traces of both transcripts were found in flowering organs. Southern blot analysis suggests that CHL I is encoded by a single gene and CHL H most likely by several genes.
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- E Kruse
- Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany
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Mg-chelatase catalyses the insertion of Mg into protoporphyrin IX (Proto). This seemingly simple reaction also is potentially one of the most interesting and crucial steps in the (bacterio)chlorophyll (Bchl/Chl)-synthesis pathway, owing to its position at the branch-point between haem and Bchl/Chl synthesis. Up until the level of Proto, haem and Bchl/Chl synthesis share a common pathway. However, at the point of metal-ion insertion there are two choices: Mg2+ insertion to make Bchl/Chl (catalysed by Mg-chelatase) or Fe2+ insertion to make haem (catalysed by ferrochelatase). Thus the relative activities of Mg-chelatase and ferrochelatase must be regulated with respect to the organism's requirements for these end products. How is this regulation achieved? For Mg-chelatase, the recent design of an in vitro assay combined with the identification of Bchl-biosynthetic enzyme genes has now made it possible to address this question. In all photosynthetic organisms studied to date, Mg-chelatase is a three-component enzyme, and in several species these proteins have been cloned and expressed in an active form. The reaction takes place in two steps, with an ATP-dependent activation followed by an ATP-dependent chelation step. The activation step may be the key to regulation, although variations in subunit levels during diurnal growth may also play a role in determining the flux through the Bchl/Chl and haem branches of the pathway.
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- C J Walker
- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1903, USA
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Hinchigeri SB, Hundle B, Richards WR. Demonstration that the BchH protein of Rhodobacter capsulatus activates S-adenosyl-L-methionine:magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase. FEBS Lett 1997; 407:337-42. [PMID: 9175880 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00371-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The bchH gene of Rhodobacter capsulatus has been cloned into an expression strain of Escherichia coli. Following induction of expression of the BchH protein, it was found that the E. coli strain also accumulated porphyrins with the fluorescence properties of protoporphyrin and zinc protoporphyrin. It was also found that the soluble BchH protein increased the activity of S-adenosyl-L-methionine:magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase, when mixed with membranes of an expression strain of E. coli into which the bchM gene (which encodes the methyltransferase) had been cloned, as well as membranes of a bchH mutant of R. capsulatus.
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- S B Hinchigeri
- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Pollich M, Wersig C, Klug G. The bluF gene of Rhodobacter capsulatus is involved in conversion of cobinamide to cobalamin (vitamin B12). J Bacteriol 1996; 178:7308-10. [PMID: 8955417 PMCID: PMC178648 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.24.7308-7310.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The bluF gene of Rhodobacter capsulatus is the first gene of the bluFEDCB operon which is involved in late steps of the cobalamin synthesis. To determine the function of the bluF gene product, a bluF::omega-Km mutant strain was constructed and characterized. This vitamin B12 auxotrophic mutant strain shows a 3.5-times higher vitamin B12 requirement under phototrophic growth conditions than under chemotrophic growth conditions. Surprisingly, the bluF promoter activity does not respond to alterations to the oxygen tension or vitamin B12 concentration.
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- M Pollich
- Institut für Mikro- und Molekularbiologie, Giessen, Germany
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Willows RD, Gibson LC, Kanangara CG, Hunter CN, von Wettstein D. Three separate proteins constitute the magnesium chelatase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 235:438-43. [PMID: 8631364 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00438.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The insertion of magnesium into protoporphyrin IX is the first step unique to chlorophyll production and is catalyzed by magnesium chelatase. The Rhodobacter sphaeroides genes, bchI and bchD together, and bchH alone, were cloned and expressed with the pET3a vector in Escherichia coli strain BL21 (DE3). The 40-kDa BchI protein was synthesized in greater abundance compared to the 70-kDa BchD protein when both were expressed together from the same plasmid. The production of large amounts of the 140-kDa BchH protein in E. coli was accompanied by an accumulation of protoporphyrin IX. The accumulated protoporphyrin IX was bound specifically to BchH in an approximate molar ratio of 1:1. All three recombinant proteins were soluble; BchH was monomeric, Bchl was dimeric, while BchD appeared to be polymeric with a molecular mass of approximately 550 kDa. The BchH and BchI proteins were purified to apparent homogeneity while BchD was separated from BchI and partially purified. Magnesium was inserted into protoporphyrin IX and deuteroporphyrin by combining these three proteins in the presence of ATP. One monomer of BchH to one dimer of BchI gave the optimal magnesium chelatase activity and the activity was dependent on the amount of partially purified BchD added to the assay at the optimum BchH:BchI ratio. The reaction was dissected into two parts with an activation step requiring BchI, BchD, and Mg2+-ATP, and a metal-insertion step which in addition requires Mg2+, protoporphyrin IX, and BchH. The stoichiometric binding of protoporphyrin IX to BchH in vitro is direct evidence for BchH carrying out such a role in vivo whereas the other two proteins are involved in ATP activation and magnesium insertion.
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- R D Willows
- Carlsberg Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Copenhagen Valby, Denmark
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Pollich M, Klug G. Identification and sequence analysis of genes involved in late steps in cobalamin (vitamin B12) synthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:4481-7. [PMID: 7635831 PMCID: PMC177200 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.15.4481-4487.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A 6.4-kb region of a 6.8-kb BamHI fragment carrying Rhodobacter capsulatus genes involved in late steps of cobalamin synthesis has been sequenced. The nucleotide sequence and genetic analysis revealed that this fragment contains eight genes arranged in at least three operons. Five of these eight genes show homology to genes involved in the cobalamin synthesis of Pseudomonas denitrificans and Salmonella typhimurium. The arrangement of these homologous genes differs considerably in the three genera. Upstream of five overlapping genes (named bluFEDCB), a promoter activity could be detected by using lacZ fusions. This promoter shows no regulation by oxygen, vitamin B12 (cobalamin), or cobinamide. Disruption of the bluE gene by a Tn5 insertion (strain AH2) results in reduced expression of the puf and puc operons, which encode pigment-binding proteins of the photosynthetic apparatus. The mutant strain AH2 can be corrected to a wild-type-like phenotype by addition of vitamin B12 or cobinamide dicyanide. Disruption of the bluB gene by an interposon (strain BB1) also disturbs the formation of the photosynthetic apparatus. The mutation of strain BB1 can be corrected by vitamin B12 but not by cobinamide. We propose that a lack of cobalamin results in deregulation and a decreased formation of the photosynthetic apparatus.
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- M Pollich
- Institut für Mikro- und Molekularbiologie, Giessen, Germany
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Gibson LC, Willows RD, Kannangara CG, von Wettstein D, Hunter CN. Magnesium-protoporphyrin chelatase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: reconstitution of activity by combining the products of the bchH, -I, and -D genes expressed in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:1941-4. [PMID: 7892204 PMCID: PMC42398 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.6.1941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Magnesium-protoporphyrin chelatase lies at the branch point of the heme and (bacterio)chlorophyll biosynthetic pathways. In this work, the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been used as a model system for the study of this reaction. The bchH and the bchI and -D genes from R. sphaeroides were expressed in Escherichia coli. When cell-free extracts from strains expressing BchH, BchI, and BchD were combined, the mixture was able to catalyze the insertion of Mg into protoporphyrin IX in an ATP-dependent manner. This was possible only when all three genes were expressed. The bchH, -I, and -D gene products are therefore assigned to the Mg chelatase step in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. The mechanism of the Mg chelation reaction and the implications for chlorophyll biosynthesis in plants are discussed.
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- L C Gibson
- Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Ignatov NV, Litvin FF. Light-regulated pigment interconversion in pheophytin/chlorophyll-containing complexes formed during plant leaves greening. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1995; 46:445-453. [PMID: 24301639 DOI: 10.1007/bf00032299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/1994] [Accepted: 10/10/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Upon illumination of etiolated maize leaves the photoconversion of protochlorophyllide Pchlide 655/650 into chlorophyllide Chlide 684/676 was observed. It was shown that chlorophyllide Chlide 684/676 in the dark is transformed into pheophytin Pheo 679/675 and chlorophyll Chl 671/668 by means of two parallel reactions, occurring at room temperature: Chlide 684/676. The formed pheophytin Pheo 679/675 was unstable and in the dark was transformed into chlorophyll Chl 671/668 in a few seconds: Pheo 679/675 → Chl 671/668. The last reaction is reversed by the light: Chl/668 Pheo 679/675. Thus, on the whole in the greening etiolated leaves this process occurs according to the following scheme:The observed light-regulated interconversion of Mg-containing and Mg-free chlorophyll analogs is activated by ATP and inhibited by AMP.
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- N V Ignatov
- Biology Department, Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia
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Fidai S, Hinchigeri SB, Borgford TJ, Richards WR. Identification of the PufQ protein in membranes of Rhodobacter capsulatus. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:7244-51. [PMID: 7961495 PMCID: PMC197112 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.23.7244-7251.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The PufQ protein has been detected in vivo for the first time by Western blot (immunoblot) analyses of the chromatophore membranes of Rhodobacter capsulatus. The PufQ protein was not visible in Western blots of membranes of a mutant (delta RC6) lacking the puf operon but appeared in membranes of the same mutant to which the pufQ gene had been added in trans. It was also detected in elevated amounts in a mutant (CB1200) defective in two bch genes and unable, therefore, to make bacteriochlorophyll. The extremely hydrophobic nature of the PufQ protein was also apparent in these studies since it was not extracted from chromatophores by 3% (wt/vol) n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, a procedure which solubilized the reaction center and light-harvesting complexes. During adaptation of R. capsulatus from aerobic to semiaerobic growth conditions (during which time the synthesis of bacteriochlorophyll was induced), the PufQ protein was observed to increase to the level of detection in the developing chromatophore fraction approximately 3 h after the start of the adaptation. The enzyme, S-adenosyl-L-methionine:magnesium protoporphyrin methyltransferase, also increased in amount in the developing chromatophore fraction but was present in a cell membrane fraction at the start of the adaptation as well.
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- S Fidai
- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Gibson LC, Hunter CN. The bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis gene, bchM, of Rhodobacter sphaeroides encodes S-adenosyl-L-methionine: Mg protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase. FEBS Lett 1994; 352:127-30. [PMID: 7925960 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00934-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The bchM gene of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been sequenced and then overexpressed in E. coli producing a protein of M(r) approximately. 27,500. Cell-free extracts of the transformed E. coli strain are able to methylate added Mg protoporphyrin, resulting in the formation of Mg protoporphyrin monomethyl ester. The identity of this product was verified by HPLC. The bchM gene product is therefore assigned to the methyltransferase step in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis.
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- L C Gibson
- Robert Hill Institute for Photosynthesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK
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Bollivar DW, Jiang ZY, Bauer CE, Beale SI. Heterologous expression of the bchM gene product from Rhodobacter capsulatus and demonstration that it encodes S-adenosyl-L-methionine:Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:5290-6. [PMID: 8071204 PMCID: PMC196713 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.17.5290-5296.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis gene, bchM, from Rhodobacter capsulatus was previously believed to code for a polypeptide involved in formation of the cyclopentone ring of protochlorophyllide from Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester. In this study, R. capsulatus bchM was expressed in Escherichia coli and the gene product was subsequently demonstrated by enzymatic analysis to catalyze methylation of Mg-protoporphyrin IX to form Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester. Activity required the substrates Mg-protoporphyrin IX and S-adenosyl-L-methionine. 14C-labeled product was formed in incubations containing 14C-methyl-labeled S-adenosyl-L-methionine. On the basis of these and previous results, we also conclude that the bchH gene, which was previously reported to code for Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase, is most likely involved in the Mg chelation step.
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- D W Bollivar
- Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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Gorchein A. Uptake of protoporphyrin and continuous spectrophotometric assay for magnesium chelatase in Rhodobacter spheroides. Biochem J 1994; 299 ( Pt 3):869-74. [PMID: 8192678 PMCID: PMC1138101 DOI: 10.1042/bj2990869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Uptake of protoporphyrin was shown by Rhodobacter spheroides under anaerobic conditions in the dark. The process was not energy-dependent but required EGTA and was markedly stimulated by Methyl Viologen. Kinetic studies were consistent with a saturable process with Kd = 5-10 microM and Bmax. = 2.2 nmol of protoporphyrin bound/mg dry weight of cells. Bound protoporphyrin could be converted into magnesium protoporphyrin monomethyl ester under anaerobic conditions in the light or at low pO2 (6.3%) in the dark. This formed the basis of a sensitive continuous spectrophotometric assay for magnesium chelatase, which avoids the need to extract the product into organic solvent, and may facilitate the development of a cell-free system for magnesium chelatase in photosynthetic bacteria. It is proposed also that the uptake mechanism shown for exogenous protoporphyrin may indicate the existence of a ligand or carrier system for endogenously produced protoporphyrin essential for magnesium chelatase activity.
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- A Gorchein
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Paddington, London, U.K
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Buggy JJ, Sganga MW, Bauer CE. Nucleotide sequence and characterization of the Rhodobacter capsulatus hvrB gene: HvrB is an activator of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase expression and is a member of the LysR family. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:61-9. [PMID: 8282711 PMCID: PMC205014 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.1.61-69.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Here we present the nucleotide sequence and characterization of two genes, hvrB and orf5, that are located in the regulatory gene cluster from Rhodobacter capsulatus. The hvrB gene, which encodes a protein with a predicted molecular mass of 32 kDa, is shown to be highly homologous to genes encoding members of the LysR family of bacterial transcriptional regulators. A chromosomal disruption of hvrB is shown to result in the failure to regulate expression from the nearby ahcY and orf5 genes in response to alterations in light intensity. We show by primer extension mapping that the 5' end of ahcY-specific mRNA defines a promoter region exhibiting sequence similarity to known R. capsulatus promoter elements. Our mutational analysis further demonstrates that hvrB autoregulates its own expression in vivo.
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- J J Buggy
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Burke DH, Alberti M, Hearst JE. bchFNBH bacteriochlorophyll synthesis genes of Rhodobacter capsulatus and identification of the third subunit of light-independent protochlorophyllide reductase in bacteria and plants. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:2414-22. [PMID: 8385667 PMCID: PMC204531 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.8.2414-2422.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We present the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of four contiguous bacteriochlorophyll synthesis genes from Rhodobacter capsulatus. Three of these genes code for enzymes which catalyze reactions common to the chlorophyll synthesis pathway and therefore are likely to be found in plants and cyanobacteria as well. The pigments accumulated in strains with physically mapped transposon insertion mutations are analyzed by absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy, allowing us to assign the genes as bchF, bchN, bchB, and bchH, in that order. bchF encodes a bacteriochlorophyll alpha-specific enzyme that adds water across the 2-vinyl group. The other three genes are required for portions of the pathway that are shared with chlorophyll synthesis, and they were expected to be common to both pathways. bchN and bchB are required for protochlorophyllide reduction in the dark (along with bchL), a reaction that has been observed in all major groups of photosynthetic organisms except angiosperms, where only the light-dependent reaction has been clearly established. The purple bacterial and plant enzymes show 35% identity between the amino acids coded by bchN and chlN (gidA) and 49% identity between the amino acids coded by bchL and chlL (frxC). Furthermore, bchB is 33% identical to ORF513 from the Marchantia polymorpha chloroplast. We present arguments in favor of the probable role of ORF513 (chlB) in protochlorophyllide reduction in the dark. The further similarities of all three subunits of protochlorophyllide reductase and the three subunits of chlorin reductase in bacteriochlorophyll synthesis suggest that the two reductase systems are derived from a common ancestor.
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- D H Burke
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
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Sganga MW, Aksamit RR, Cantoni GL, Bauer CE. Mutational and nucleotide sequence analysis of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Rhodobacter capsulatus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:6328-32. [PMID: 1631127 PMCID: PMC49494 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.14.6328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The genetic locus ahcY, encoding the enzyme S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase (EC 3.3.1.1) from the bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus, has been mapped by mutational analysis to within a cluster of genes involved in regulating the induction and maintenance of the bacterial photosynthetic apparatus. Sequence analysis demonstrates that ahcY encodes a 51-kDa polypeptide that displays 64% sequence identity to its human homolog. Insertion mutants in ahcY lack detectable S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase activity and, as a consequence, S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine accumulates in the cells, resulting in a 16-fold decrease in the intracellular ratio of S-adenosyl-L-methionine to S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine as compared to wild-type cells. The ahcY disrupted strain fails to grow in minimal medium; however, growth is restored in minimal medium supplemented with methionine or homocysteine or in a complex medium, thereby indicating that the hydrolysis of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine plays a key role in the metabolism of sulfur-containing amino acids. The ahcY mutant, when grown in supplemented medium, synthesizes significantly reduced levels of bacteriochlorophyll, indicating that modulation of the intracellular ratio of S-adenosyl-L-methionine to S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine may be an important factor in regulating bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis.
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- M W Sganga
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Beale SI, Weinstein JD. Chapter 5 Biochemistry and regulation of photosynthetic pigment formation in plants and algae. BIOSYNTHESIS OF TETRAPYRROLES 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60112-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Yang ZM, Bauer CE. Rhodobacter capsulatus genes involved in early steps of the bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic pathway. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:5001-10. [PMID: 2203738 PMCID: PMC213156 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.9.5001-5010.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Three open reading frames in the Rhodobacter capsulatus photosynthesis gene cluster, designated F0, F108, and F1025, were disrupted by site-directed mutagenesis. Mutants bearing insertions in these reading frames were defective in converting protoporphyrin IX to magnesium-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester, protochlorophyllide to chlorophyllide a, and magnesium-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester to protochlorophyllide, respectively. These results demonstrate that the genes examined most likely encode enzyme subunits that catalyze steps common to plant and bacterial tetrapyrrole photopigment biosynthetic pathways. The open reading frames were found to be part of a large 11-kilobase operon that encodes numerous genes involved in early steps of the bacteriochlorophyll a biosynthetic pathway.
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- Z M Yang
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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Oelze J. Regulation of tetrapyrrole synthesis by light in chemostat cultures of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J Bacteriol 1988; 170:4652-7. [PMID: 3170482 PMCID: PMC211504 DOI: 10.1128/jb.170.10.4652-4657.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Control of bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl), magnesium protoporphyrin monomethyl ester (MgPME), cytochromes, and coproporphyrin by light was studied with chemostat cultures of Rhodobacter sphaeroides growing at a constant dilution rate. By increasing the growth-limiting light energy flux from 10 to 55 W/m2, specific Bchl contents decreased from 19.3 to 7.9 nmol/mg of protein. This was strictly proportional to a decrease in the ratio of B800-850 to B875 light-harvesting complexes. MgPME levels increased from 1.5 to 5.3 nmol/mg of protein, while cytochrome as well as coproporphyrin levels stayed constant at 0.46 and 1.95 nmol/mg of protein, respectively. Since in chemostat cultures steady-state levels of a product represent the rate of synthesis, these results infer only slight control of the rate-limiting step of total tetrapyrrol formation by light. In substrate-limited cultures MgPME was accumulated when growth and Bchl formation approached substrate saturation. This suggests that light controls a second step, i.e., MgPME conversion, whenever too much precursor is available, owing to the low sensitivity of the initial step of control. MgPME was preferentially localized in a subcellular fraction with high contents of B875 complexes. A second fraction exhibiting increased contents of B800-850 complexes lacked significant levels of MgPME. These results are discussed in terms of localization of Bchl synthesis in the membrane system of R. sphaeroides.
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- J Oelze
- Institut für Biologie 2 (Mikrobiologie), Universität Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Biel AJ, Marrs BL. Transcriptional regulation of several genes for bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis in Rhodopseudomonas capsulata in response to oxygen. J Bacteriol 1983; 156:686-94. [PMID: 6415036 PMCID: PMC217884 DOI: 10.1128/jb.156.2.686-694.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Although it has been shown that bacteriochlorophyll synthesis in Rhodopseudomonas capsulata is repressed by oxygen and high light intensity, few details of regulation by these environmental factors are known, primarily owing to a lack of assays for the biosynthetic enzymes. We have examined regulation at the transcriptional level by isolating and studying fusions between the Mu d1(Apr lac) phage and various bch genes. In these strains, the lacZ gene of the phage is under the control of bch gene promoters. We have found that atmospheric oxygen tension (20% O2) reduces the expression of these fusions at least twofold compared with low oxygen tension (2% O2). Therefore, transcription of the bchA, bchB, bchC, bchG, and bchH genes is regulated in response to oxygen.
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Houghton JD, Honeybourne CL, Smith KM, Tabba HD, Jones OT. The use of N-methylprotoporphyrin dimethyl ester to inhibit ferrochelatase in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides and its effect in promoting biosynthesis of magnesium tetrapyrroles. Biochem J 1982; 208:479-86. [PMID: 6984332 PMCID: PMC1153987 DOI: 10.1042/bj2080479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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N-Methylprotoporphyrin dimethyl ester inhibits ferrochelatase in isolated membranes of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides at low concentrations (around 10 nm). Full inhibition developed after a short lag phase. The inhibition was non-competitive with porphyrin substrate. Addition of inhibitor to growing cultures of Rps. sphaeroides caused a decrease (near 40%) in cytochrome content and a severe inhibition of ferrochelatase; the excretion of haem into the medium by cell suspensions was also severely inhibited. The addition of N-methylprotoporphyrin dimethyl ester to suspensions of photosynthetically competent Rps. sphaeroides Ga caused excretion of Mg-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester. When added to mutants V3 and O1, magnesium divinylphaeoporphyrin a5 monomethyl ester and 2-devinyl-2-hydroxyethylphaeophorbide a were excreted, with maximum effect at around 3 microM-inhibitor in the medium. The results are interpreted to suggest that the inhibitor decreases concentration of intracellular haem, which normally controls the activity of 5-aminolaevulinate synthetase. Unregulated activity of this enzyme leads to overproduction of protoporphyrin, which is diverted to the bacteriochlorophyll pathway. Further control operates at magnesium protoporphyrin ester conversion in normal cells.
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Richter ML, Rienits KG. The synthesis of magnesium-protoporphyrin IX by etiochloroplast membrane preparations. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(82)90177-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Fuesler TP, Hanamoto CM, Castelfranco PA. Separation of Mg-Protoporphyrin IX and Mg-Protoporphyrin IX Monomethyl Ester Synthesized de novo by Developing Cucumber Etioplasts. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1982; 69:421-3. [PMID: 16662221 PMCID: PMC426222 DOI: 10.1104/pp.69.2.421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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High pressure liquid chromatography was used to demonstrate that chelation of Mg(2+) into protoporphyrin IX precedes methylation in isolated greening etioplasts from cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. var. Beit Alpha) cotyledons. Mg-protoporphyrin IX synthesized in vitro from protoporphyrin IX, Mg(2+), and ATP or exogenous Mg-protoporphyrin IX could serve as substrates for the methylation step. In either case, S-adenosylmethionine was the methyl donor and could not be replaced by ATP plus methionine.
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- T P Fuesler
- Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Castelfranco PA, Weinstein JD, Schwarcz S, Pardo AD, Wezelman BE. The Mg insertion step in chlorophyll biosynthesis. Arch Biochem Biophys 1979; 192:592-8. [PMID: 434841 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(79)90130-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Gorchein A, Mitchell LD, Rogers AT. Pharmacological properties of kryptopyrrole and its oxidation products on isolated sciatic nerve of rat and on guinea-pig ileum. Br J Pharmacol 1979; 65:23-7. [PMID: 760888 PMCID: PMC1668463 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1979.tb17329.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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1 Kryptopyrrole (2, 4-dimethyl, 3-ethylpyrrole) inhibited conduction in rat sciatic nerve by a local anaesthetic action. 2 Tone and both spontaneous and electrically-induced contractions of guinea-pig ileum were also inhibited by kryptopyrrole. The concentration of kryptopyrrole required for 50% inhibition of a maximum twitch tension (ID50) was 0.085 mM. 3 Oxidation products of kryptopyrrole with chromatographic properties similar to those of urinary constituents reported in schizophrenia and hepatic porphyrias had little or no effect at similar concentrations. 4 Dose-response curves to exogenous acetylcholine in guinea-pig ileum were shifted to the right by kryptopyrrole, with loss of parallelism and reduction in the maximum contraction. 5 Acetylcholine overflow from ileal segments at rest and during electrical stimulation was reduced by kryptopyrrole. 6 These results on ileal segments are consistent with kryptopyrrole having both a post-junctional site of action, presumably directly on the muscle, and a pre-junctional site reducing the output of acetylcholine from the myenteric plexus. 7 The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to a possible clinical pathological role for these compounds.
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An analysis of precursors accumulated by several chlorophyll biosynthetic mutants of maize. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00330996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Smith BB, Rebeiz CA. Chloroplast biogenesis: detection of Mg-protoporphyrin chelatase in vitro. Arch Biochem Biophys 1977; 180:178-85. [PMID: 856042 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(77)90023-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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