4-TOLUENE SULFONATE METHYL-MONOOXYGENASE FROM COMAMONAS-TESTOSTERONI T-2 - PURIFICATION AND SOME PROPERTIES OF THE OXYGENASE COMPONENT
4-TOLUENE SULFONATE METHYL-MONOOXYGENASE FROM COMAMONAS-TESTOSTERONI T-2 - PURIFICATION AND SOME PROPERTIES OF THE OXYGENASE COMPONENT
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.173.12.3741-3748.1991
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发表时间:
1991-06-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
COOK, AM
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作者:
LOCHER, HH;LEISINGER, T;COOK, AM
Comamonas testosteroni T-2 synthesizes an inducible enzyme system that oxygenates 4-toluene sulfonate (TS) to 4-sulfobenzyl alcohol when grown in TS-salts medium. We purified this TS methyl-monooxygenase system (TSMOS) and found it to consist of two components. A monomeric, iron-sulfur flavoprotein (component B), which has been shown to act as a reductase in the 4-sulfobenzoate dioxygenase system of this organism (H. H. Locher, T. Leisinger, and A. M. Cook, Biochem. J. 274:833-842, 1991), carried electrons from NADH to component M, an oxygenase. This oxygenase had the UV-visible spectral characteristics of an iron-sulfur protein. M(r)s of about 152,000 for the native oxygenase and of 43,000 under denaturing conditions indicated a homotri- or homotetrameric enzyme, whose N-terminal amino acids and amino acid composition were determined. The activity of the purified enzyme was enhanced about fivefold by the addition of Fe2+. In the presence of O2 and NADH, components B and M together catalyzed the stoichiometric transformation of TS or p-toluate to the corresponding alcohol. The reaction was confirmed as oxygenation of the methyl group by observation of an oxygen atom from (O2)O-18 in carboxybenzyl alcohol. The substrate range of TSMOS included carboxylated analogs of TS (p- and m-toluates and 4-ethylbenzoate), whereas p-xylene, toluene, and p-cresol were not substrates. TSMOS also catalyzed demethylation; 4-methoxybenzoate was transformed to 4-hydroxybenzoate and formaldehyde.