Reconstitution of a defunct glycolytic pathway via recruitment of ambiguous sugar kinases.
Reconstitution of a defunct glycolytic pathway via recruitment of ambiguous sugar kinases.
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通过招募不明确的糖激酶来重建失效的糖酵解途径。
DOI:
10.1021/bi0506268
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发表时间:
2005
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Raines,RonaldT
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作者:
Miller,BrianG;Raines,RonaldT
During a recent investigation of the persistence of substrate ambiguity in contemporary enzymes, we identified three distinct ambiguous sugar kinases embedded within the modernEscherichia coligenome [Miller, B. G., and Raines, R. T. (2004)Biochemistry 43, 6387−6392]. These catalysts are the YajF, YcfX, and NanK polypeptides, all of which possess rudimentary glucokinase activities. Here, we report on the discovery of a fourth bacterial kinase with ambiguous substrate specificity. AlsK phosphorylates the glucose epimer,d-allose, with akcat/Kmvalue of 6.5 × 104M-1s-1. AlsK also phosphorylatesd-glucose, with akcat/Kmvalue that is 105-fold lower than thekcat/Kmvalue displayed by nativeE. coliglucokinase. Overexpression of thealsKgene relieves the auxotrophy of a glucokinase-deficient bacterium, demonstrating that weak enzymatic activities derived from ambiguous catalysts can provide organisms with elaborated metabolic capacities. To explore how ambiguous catalysts are recruited to provide new functions, we placed the glucokinase-deficient bacterium under selection for growth at the expense of glucose. Under these conditions, the bacterium acquires a spontaneous mutation in the putative promoter region of theyajFgene, a locus previously shown to encode a sugar kinase with relaxed substrate specificity. The point mutation regenerates a consensus σ70promoter sequence that leads to a 94-fold increase in the level ofyajFexpression. This increase provides sufficient glucokinase activity for reconstitution of the defunct glycolytic pathway of the bacterial auxotroph. Our current findings indicate that ambiguous enzymatic activities continue to play an important role in the evolution of new metabolic pathways, and provide insight into the molecular mechanisms that facilitate the recruitment of such catalysts during periods of natural selection.
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影响因子:
5.6
作者:
SCHNEIDER, TD;STORMO, GD;EHRENFEUCHT, A
通讯作者:
EHRENFEUCHT, A
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.59.1.285
发表时间:
1968
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
S. Schaefler;I. Schenkein
通讯作者:
I. Schenkein
DOI:
10.1016/0005-2744(72)90136-2
发表时间:
1972
期刊:
Biochimica et biophysica acta
影响因子:
--
作者:
B. Sabater;J. Sebastián;C. Asensio
通讯作者:
C. Asensio
DOI:
10.1099/13500872-140-9-2349
发表时间:
1994-09-01
期刊:
MICROBIOLOGY-UK
影响因子:
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作者:
TITGEMEYER, F;REIZER, J;SAIER, MH
通讯作者:
SAIER, MH
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
S. Lerner;Tao Wu;Estelle Lin
通讯作者:
Estelle Lin