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1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
2 Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Correspondence
Thomas A. Bobik
bobik{at}iastate.edu
Salmonella enterica degrades 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PD) by a pathway that requires coenzyme B12 (adenosylcobalamin; AdoCbl). The genes specifically involved in 1,2-PD utilization (pdu) are found in a large contiguous cluster, the pdu locus. Earlier studies have indicated that this locus includes genes for the conversion of vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin; CNCbl) to AdoCbl and that the pduO gene encodes an ATP : cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase which catalyses the terminal step of this process. Here, in vitro evidence is presented that the pduS gene encodes a bifunctional cobalamin reductase that catalyses two reductive steps needed for the conversion of CNCbl into AdoCbl. The PduS enzyme was produced in high levels in Escherichia coli. Enzyme assays showed that cell extracts from the PduS expression strain reduced cob(III)alamin (hydroxycobalamin) to cob(II)alamin at a rate of 91 nmol min–1 mg–1 and cob(II)alamin to cob(I)alamin at a rate of 7·8 nmol min–1 mg–1. In contrast, control extracts had only 9·9 nmol min–1 mg–1 cob(III)alamin reductase activity and no detectable cob(II)alamin reductase activity. Thus, these results indicated that the PduS enzyme is a bifunctional cobalamin reductase. Enzyme assays also showed that the PduS enzyme reduced cob(II)alamin to cob(I)alamin for conversion into AdoCbl by purified PduO adenosyltransferase. Moreover, studies in which iodoacetate was used as a chemical trap for cob(I)alamin indicated that the PduS and PduO enzymes physically interact and that cob(I)alamin is sequestered during the conversion of cob(II)alamin to AdoCbl by these two enzymes. This is likely to be important physiologically, since cob(I)alamin is extremely reactive and would need to be protected from unproductive by-reactions. Lastly, bioinformatic analyses showed that the PduS enzyme is unrelated in amino acid sequence to enzymes of known function currently present in GenBank. Hence, results indicate that the PduS enzyme represents a new class of cobalamin reductase.
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