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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of the alkanesulfonate FMN reductase from Escherichia coli.

The alkanesulfonate FMN reductase (SsuE) from Escherichia coli catalyzes the reduction of FMN by NADPH to provide reduced flavin for the monooxygenase (SsuD) enzyme. The vapor-diffusion technique yielded single crystals that grow as hexagonal rods and diffract to 2.9 A resolution using synchrotron X-ray radiation. The protein crystallizes in the primitive hexagonal space group P622. The SsuE protein lacks any cysteine or methionine residues owing to the role of the SsuE enzyme in the acquisition of sulfur during sulfate starvation. Therefore, substitution of two leucine residues (Leu114 and Leu165) to methionine was performed to obtain selenomethionine-containing SsuE for MAD phasing. The selenomethionine derivative of SsuE has been expressed and purified and crystals of the protein have been obtained with and without bound FMN. These preliminary studies should lead to the structure solution of SsuE. It is anticipated that this new protein structure will provide detailed structural information on specific active-site regions of the protein and insight into the mechanism of flavin reduction and transfer of reduced flavin.

Alkanesulfonates↗

Identification of NADH-specific and NADPH-specific FMN reductases in Beneckea harveyi.

Distinct FMN reductases specific for NADH and NADPH were identified in extracts of Beneckea harveyi. These enzymes differ in their physical (molecular weight, thermostability) as well as in their chemical properties (binding constants for NADH and NADPH). The NADH-specific enzyme is more efficient than the NADPH-specific one with respect to the bioluminescent reaction.

Drug Stability↗

[FMN-reductase from Escherichia coli and its effect on the activity of luciferase from marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri].

Interactions of luciferases isolated from Vibrio fischeri 6 and Escherichia coli JM109(pF3) (bearing cloned V. fischeri luxAB genes) with FMN reductase isolated from E. coli JM109 were studied. FMN reductase formed a stable complex with luciferase, suggesting similar properties of the FMN reductases in the taxonomically close families Vibrionaceae and Enterobacteriaceae.

Binding Sites↗

Altered mechanism of the alkanesulfonate FMN reductase with the monooxygenase enzyme.

The two-component alkanesulfonate monooxygenase system from Escherichia coli is comprised of an FMN reductase (SsuE) and a monooxygenase enzyme (SsuD) that together catalyze the oxidation of alkanesulfonate to the corresponding aldehyde and sulfite products. To determine the effects of protein interactions on catalysis, the steady-state kinetic parameters for SsuE were determined in single-enzyme assays and in the presence of the monooxygenase enzyme and alkanesulfonate substrate. In single-enzyme kinetic assays, SsuE followed an ordered sequential mechanism, with NADPH as the first substrate to bind and NADP+ as the last product to dissociate. However, in the presence of SsuD and octanesulfonate the kinetic mechanism of SsuE is altered to a rapid equilibrium ordered mechanism, and the Km value for FMN is increased 10-fold. These results suggest that both the SsuD enzyme and alkanesulfonate substrate are required to ensure that the FMN reductase reaction proceeds to form the ternary complex with the subsequent generation of reduced flavin transfer.

Base Sequence↗

Structure determination of an FMN reductase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 using sulfur anomalous signal.

The availability of high-intensity synchrotron facilities, technological advances in data-collection techniques and improved data-reduction and crystallographic software have ushered in a new era in high-throughput macromolecular crystallography. Here, the de novo automated crystal structure determination at 1.28 A resolution of an NAD(P)H-dependent FMN reductase flavoprotein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01-derived protein Q9I4D4 using the anomalous signal from an unusually small number of S atoms is reported. Although this protein lacks the flavodoxin key fingerprint motif [(T/S)XTGXT], it has been confirmed to bind flavin mononucleotide and the binding site was identified via X-ray crystallography. This protein contains a novel flavin mononucleotide-binding site GSLRSGSYN, which has not been previously reported. Detailed statistics pertaining to sulfur phasing and other factors contributing to structure determination are discussed. Structural comparisons of the apoenzyme and the protein complexed with flavin mononucleotide show conformational changes on cofactor binding. NADPH-dependent activity has been confirmed with biochemical assays.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Immobilization of bacterial luciferase and FMN reductase on glass rods.

Bacterial luciferase and NAD(P)H: FMN oxidoreductase isolated from Beneckea harveyi were covalently linked via diazotization to arylamine porous glass beads which had been cemented onto plain glass rods. These immobilized enzymes are individually active and also function to produce light via a coupled reaction utilizing NADH or NADPH. These enzymes have properties similar to the soluble forms with regard to pH and substrate optima and also exhibit linearity in peak intensity of the initial flash of light emitted as a function of NADH or NADPH concentration. Linearity with NADH is obtained in the range of 1 pmol to 50 nmol, and between 10 pmol to 200 nmol for NADPH. The bound enzymes are stable and reusable. This immobilized system offers a rapid and inexpensive m

Enzymes, Immobilized↗

A new approach to the study of protein-protein interaction by FTIR: complex formation between cytochrome P450BM-3 heme domain and FMN reductase domain.

We describe a new approach to the study of protein-protein interaction using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). This approach is based on the combination of FTIR technique with both protein titration experiments and the principal component analysis (factor analysis) of the IR absorption spectra in the 1500-1800 cm(-1) region for the protein mixtures. We have applied this approach to the interaction of the heme domain with the FMN domain of bacterial monooxygenase cytochrome P450BM-3 (CYP102A1). The analysis reveals that the first principal component reflects the protein-protein complex formation because the loading factors show a clear systematic dependence on the concentration of the heme domain according to a titration curve with a dissociation constant of approximately 5 microM. The spectrum of the first principal component has been assigned to structural changes in the secondary structure (increase of beta-sheet and alpha-helix and decrease of turn structures), amino acid side chains (protonation of aspartate and C-terminal COO group), and deprotonation of a propionic acid COOD group in the heme.

Bacillus megaterium↗

NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase. Physical properties and redox behavior in the absence of the FAD moiety.

NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase contains one molecule each of FMN and FAD. The FAD moiety has been selectively removed, producing the FMN reductase. The FMN reductase is stable and enzymatic activity is reconstituted with either FAD or FMN. FMN remains tightly bound, but can both dissociate from the FMN site and bind to the vacant FAD site. The amount of FMN bound in the FAD site is minimal under specific experimental conditions. There are at least two conformational subpopulations of the FMN reductase; NADP dissociates readily from one but extremely slowly from the other. Rapid dissociation of NADP is regained upon reconstitution with FAD. The one-electron redox state of the FMN reductase is thermodynamically stabilized, though to a lesser degree than in the holoreductase. When two-electron reduced FMN reductase is exposed to oxygen, a stable species with an absorbance peak at 580 nm forms rapidly and quantitatively. This species has been identified by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy as the neutral radical of FMN and is indistinguishable from the air-stable radical of the holoreductase. The redox behavior of the FMN reductase is in agreement with properties proposed previously for the FMN site.

Animals↗

Purification of the two-enzyme system catalyzing the oxidation of the D-proline residue of pristinamycin IIB during the last step of pristinamycin IIA biosynthesis.

High levels of conversion of 14C-labelled pristinamycin IIB (PIIB) to pristinamycin IIA (PIIA) were obtained in vivo in Streptomyces pristinaespiralis and in some other streptogramin A producers. This established that PIIB was an intermediate on the pathway to PIIA. In addition, in vitro studies with cell-free protein preparations demonstrated that the oxidation of PIIB to PIIA is a complex process requiring NADH, riboflavin 5'-phosphate (FMN), and molecular oxygen. Two enzymes were shown to be necessary to catalyze this reaction. Both were purified to homogeneity from S. pristinaespiralis by a coupled enzyme assay based on the formation of PIIA and by requiring addition of the complementing enzyme. One enzyme was purified about 3,000-fold by a procedure including a decisive affinity chromatography step on FMN-agarose. It was shown to be a NADH:FMN oxidoreductase (E.C. 1.6.8.1.) (hereafter called FMN reductase), providing reduced FMN (FMNH2) to the more abundant second enzyme. The latter was purified only 160-fold and was called PIIA synthase. Our data strongly suggest that this enzyme catalyzes a transient hydroxylation of PIIB by molecular oxygen immediately followed by a dehydration leading to PIIA. The native PIIA synthase consists of two different subunits with Mrs of around 50,000 and 35,000, as estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, while the FMN reductase seems to be a monomer with a Mr of around 28,000 and containing one molecule of tightly bound FMN. Stepwise Edman degradation of the entire polypeptides or some of their trypsin-digested fragments provided amino acid sequences for the two isolated proteins.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Purification and characterization of EDTA monooxygenase from the EDTA-degrading bacterium BNC1.

The synthetic chelating agent EDTA can mobilize radionuclides and heavy metals in the environment. Biodegradation of EDTA should reduce this mobilization. Although several bacteria have been reported to mineralize EDTA, little is known about the biochemistry of EDTA degradation. Understanding the biochemistry will facilitate the removal of EDTA from the environment. EDTA-degrading activities were detected in cell extracts of bacterium BNC1 when flavin mononucleotide (FMN), NADH, and O2 were present. The degradative enzyme system was separated into two different enzymes, EDTA monooxygenase and an FMN reductase. EDTA monooxygenase oxidized EDTA to glyoxylate and ethylenediaminetriacetate (ED3A), with the coconsumption of FMNH2 and O2. The FMN reductase provided EDTA monooxygenase with FMNH2 by reducing FMN with NADH. The FMN reductase was successfully substituted in the assay mixture by other FMN reductases. EDTA monooxygenase was purified to greater than 95% homogeneity and had a single polypeptide with a molecular weight of 45,000. The enzyme oxidized both EDTA complexed with various metal ions and uncomplexed EDTA. The optimal conditions for activity were pH 7.8 and 35 degreesC. Kms were 34.1 microM for uncomplexed EDTA and 8.5 microM for MgEDTA2-; this difference in Km indicates that the enzyme has greater affinity for MgEDTA2-. The enzyme also catalyzed the release of glyoxylate from nitrilotriacetate and diethylenetriaminepentaacetate. EDTA monooxygenase belongs to a small group of FMNH2-utilizing monooxygenases that attack carbon-nitrogen, carbon-sulfur, and carbon-carbon double bonds.

Cations↗

Studies on NADH (NADPH)-cytochrome c reductase (FMN-containing) from yeast. Isolation and physicochemical properties of the enzyme from top-fermenting ale yeast.

Only three major NADPH-nitrotetrazolium blue (NTB) reductases may be detected in a unique top-ale yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Narragansett strain), which appears to be of a near anaerobic type with the absence of cytochromes c and a/a3 and the presence of cytochromes P-450 and b5. Two of these three major NADPH-NTB reductases possessed NADH-NTB reductase activity; the third was specific for NADPH and was isolated in this laboratory (Tryon, E., Cress, M. C., Hamada, M., and Kuby, S. A. (1979) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 197, 104-118) vis. NADPH-cytochrome c reductase (FAD-containing). A description of the isolation procedure is provided for one of these two NADH(NADPH)-NTB reductases, viz. NADH(NADPH)-cytochrome c reductase (FMN-containing), which accounts for about one-half of the total cyanide-insensitive menadione-activated respiration of this yeast. This NADH(NADPH)-cytochrome c reductase has been isolated from an extract of an acetone powder of the top-fermenting ale yeast, with an apparent purification of more than 67-fold and a final specific activity of 0.41 and 0.31 mumol/min/mg for NADH- and NADPH-dependent reduction, respectively. The isolated enzyme proved to be homogeneous by electrophoresis on cellulose acetate and on polyacrylamide gels. It had a pI of 5.25 (at gamma/2 = 0.05) and a molecular size under nondenaturing conditions (as determined by chromatography on Sephadex G-100 and Sephacryl S-200) of 70,000 daltons. On denaturation, the enzyme dissociated into two similar, if not identical, subunits which possessed a molecular weight of 34,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate/urea-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and a weight average molecular weight of 35,000 by sedimentation equilibrium in the presence of 4.0 M guanidinium chloride. The absorbance spectrum of NADH(NADPH)-cytochrome c reductase (FMN-containing) showed three maxima at 464, 383, and 278 nm, with extinction coefficients of 9.88, 9.98, and 64.6 mM-1 cm-1, respectively. The reductase, as isolated, contained 0.63 mol of FMN/34,000-dalton subunit, with no metals and one sulfhydryl group/subunit. Its amino acid composition is reported herein. Anaerobic titrations with dithionite or NAD(P)H revealed a two-electron reduction of FMN, with no spectrally observable semiquinone intermediates.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

Amino Acids↗

Purification and properties of the NADH and NADPH specific FMN oxidoreductases from Beneckea harveyi.

The NADH and NADPH specific FMN oxidoreductases from Beneckea harveyi have been purified to homogeneity as judged by single bands on sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. The overall purification for the NADH specific enzyme is 3000-fold and 4000-fold for the NADPH specific enzyme from a crude extract. The final step in the purification procedure is chromatography on a 5'-AMP-Sepharose 4B affinity column which results in approximately a 50-fold purification to a final specific activity of 31 mumol of NADH oxidized min-1 (mg of protein)-1 for the NADH specific FMN reductase. The NADPH specific reductase has been purified to a final specific activity of 51 mumol of NADPH oxidized min-1 (mg of protein)-1 using a NADP agarose affinity column, which results in a 70-fold purification. Molecular weights of 30 000 and 40 000 and Km's of 4.75 X 10(-5) M NADH and 4.0 X 10(-5) M NADPH have been determined for the pure NADH and NADPH specific FMN reductases, respectively. The NADPH specific FMN reductase does not utilize NADH, while the NADH specific enzyme does dehydrogenate NADPH with a maximal velocity one-tenth of that for NADH. Separate NADH and NADPH specific FMN reductases from Photobacterium fischeri could not be demonstrated.

Chromatography, Affinity↗

Studies on NADH(NADPH)-cytochrome c reductase (FMN-containing) from yeast: steady-state kinetic properties of the flavoenzyme from top-fermenting ale yeast.

A study of the steady-state kinetics of NADH(NADPH)-cytochrome c reductase (FMN-containing) from ale yeast (M. S. Johnson and S. A. Kuby (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 12341-12350) has led to a postulated three-substrate random-ordered hybrid mechanism, where NAD(P)H and FMN add randomly and very likely in a steady-state fashion, followed by an ordered addition of cytochrome c. Kinetic parameters have been derived from this mechanism. Arrhenius plots showed large differences between NADH and NADPH, as the substrate-reductant. Menadione accelerated cytochrome c reduction and also O2 uptake, but vitamin K1 and coenzyme Q10 were ineffective as electron mediators, possibly as a result of their insolubility. With NADPH as the substrate-reductant, the order of the rate of reduction of electron acceptors was ferricyanide greater than DCIP greater than cytochrome c greater than oxygen; with menadione, the specificity sequence was cytochrome c greater than ferricyanide greater than DCIP greater than oxygen. With NADH, the order was ferricyanide greater than cytochrome c greater than oxygen greater than DCIP, which changed to cytochrome c greater than ferricyanide greater than oxygen greater than DCIP on addition of menadione. Cytochrome b5 was also reduced in the absence of oxygen. No transhydrogenase activity was observed, but the reduced thionicotinamide analogs of NADH and NADPH acted as substrates. Superoxide dismutase inhibited cytochrome c reduction in air by 50%, but O2-. was not necessary for cytochrome c reduction, as evidenced by the increase in rate in the absence of O2. The product of the reaction with oxygen appeared to be H2O2.

Catalysis↗

Specificities and properties of three reduced pyridine nucleotide-flavin mononucleotide reductases coupling to bacterial luciferase.

Three different NAD(P)H-FMN reductases were extracted from Beneckea harveyi MB-20 cells and separated by DEAE-Sephadex A50 column chromatography. Further purification was achieved by affinity chromatography. In determinations of Km values for NADH, NADPH, and FMN, these three reductases exhibited different specificities and kinetic parameters. One reductase utilizes NADH, whereas a second one utilizes NADPH as the preferred substrate. The third, a newly described reductase species, exhibits about the same reaction rates with NADH and NADPH. The reaction mechanisms of the three enzyme forms have been deduced by steady state kinetic analysis. The highly pure (based on gel electrophoresis) NADPH-FMN reductase still exhibited a low (approximately 2%) activity for NADH, which activity was increased upon storage at 4 degrees but suppressed completely by the replacement of the phosphate buffer with sodium citrate buffer. This high specificity of NADPH-FMN reductase for NADPH under these conditions is useful for the assay of NADPH, notably in systems coupled to bacterial luciferase.

Bacterial Proteins↗

Cloning and analysis of structural genes from Streptomyces pristinaespiralis encoding enzymes involved in the conversion of pristinamycin IIB to pristinamycin IIA (PIIA): PIIA synthase and NADH:riboflavin 5'-phosphate oxidoreductase.

In Streptomyces pristinaespiralis, two enzymes are necessary for conversion of pristinamycin IIB (PIIB) to pristinamycin IIA (PIIA), the major component of pristinamycin (D. Thibaut, N. Ratet, D. Bisch, D. Faucher, L. Debussche, and F. Blanche, J. Bacteriol. 177:5199-5205, 1995); these enzymes are PIIA synthase, a heterodimer composed of the SnaA and SnaB proteins, which catalyzes the oxidation of PIIB to PIIA, and the NADH:riboflavin 5'-phosphate oxidoreductase (hereafter called FMN reductase), the SnaC protein, which provides the reduced form of flavin mononucleotide for the reaction. By using oligonucleotide probes designed from limited peptide sequence information of the purified proteins, the corresponding genes were cloned from a genomic library of S. pristinaespiralis. SnaA and SnaB showed no significant similarity with proteins from databases, but SnaA and SnaB had similar protein domains. Disruption of the snaA gene in S. pristinaespiralis led to accumulation of PIIB. Complementation of a S. pristinaespiralis PIIA-PIIB+ mutant with the snaA and snaB genes, cloned in a low-copy-number plasmid, partially restored production of PIIA. The deduced amino acid sequence of the snaC gene showed no similarity to the sequences of other FMN reductases but was 39% identical with the product of the actVB gene of the actinorhodin cluster of Streptomyces coelicolor A(3)2, likely to be involved in the dimerization step of actinorhodin biosynthesis. Furthermore, an S. coelicolor A(3)2 mutant blocked in this step was successfully complemented by the snaC gene, restoring the production of actinorhodin.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Identification of the genes encoding NAD(P)H-flavin oxidoreductases that are similar in sequence to Escherichia coli Fre in four species of luminous bacteria: Photorhabdus luminescens, Vibrio fischeri, Vibrio harveyi, and Vibrio orientalis.

Genes encoding NAD(P)H-flavin oxidoreductases (flavin reductases) similar in both size and sequence to Fre, the most abundant flavin reductase in Escherichia coli, were identified in four species of luminous bacteria, Photorhabdus luminescens (ATCC 29999), Vibrio fischeri (ATCC 7744), Vibrio harveyi (ATCC 33843), and Vibrio orientalis (ATCC 33934). Nucleotide sequence analysis showed Fre-like flavin reductases in P. luminescens and V. fischeri to consist of 233 and 236 amino acids, respectively. As in E. coli Fre, Fre-like enzymes in luminous bacteria preferably used riboflavin as an electron acceptor when NADPH was used as an electron donor. These enzymes also were good suppliers of reduced flavin mononucleotide (FMNH2) to the bioluminescence reaction. In V. fischeri, the Fre-like enzyme is a minor flavin reductase representing < 10% of the total FMN reductase. That the V. fischeri Fre-like enzyme has no appreciable homology in amino acid sequence to the major flavin reductase in V. fischeri, FRase I, indicates that at least two different types of flavin reductases supply FMNH2 to the luminescence system in V. fischeri. Although Fre-like flavin reductases are highly similar in sequence to luxG gene products (LuxGs), Fre-like flavin reductases and LuxGs appear to constitute two separate groups of flavin-associated proteins.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Luminescence and respiratory activities of Photobacterium phosphoreum. Competition for cellular reducing power.

Changes in the in vivo luminescence, respiratory activities, contents of cytochromes, extractable luciferase and NAD(P)H-FMN reductase during growth of the wild (bright) strain of Photobacterium phosphoreum and its dim mutant were determined. The intensity of the in vivo luminescence per cell increased 10 times in the wild strain and 750 times in the dim strain during logarithmic growth, while the contents of luciferase and NAD(P)H-FMN reductase remained almost constant. It is suggested that a characteristic change in the mode of competition of the luminescence reaction system with another electron transfer chain involving cytochromes for NAD(P)H take place during the growth of this bacterium.

Cell Division↗