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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
31
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) aldolase activity has been detected previously in several Archaea. However, no obvious orthologs of the bacterial and eucaryal Class I and II FBP aldolases have yet been identified in sequenced archaeal genomes. Based on a recently described novel type of bacterial aldolase, we report on the identification and molecular characterization of the first archaeal FBP aldolases. We have analyzed the FBP aldolases of two hyperthermophilic Archaea, the facultatively heterotrophic Crenarchaeon Thermoproteus tenax and the obligately heterotrophic Euryarchaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. For enzymatic studies the fba genes of T. tenax and P. furiosus were expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant FBP aldolases show preferred substrate specificity for FBP in the catabolic direction and exhibit metal-independent Class I FBP aldolase activity via a Schiff-base mechanism. Transcript analyses reveal that the expression of both archaeal genes is induced during sugar fermentation. Remarkably, the fbp gene of T. tenax is co-transcribed with the pfp gene that codes for the reversible PP(i)-dependent phosphofructokinase. As revealed by phylogenetic analyses, orthologs of the T. tenax and P. furiosus enzyme appear to be present in almost all sequenced archaeal genomes, as well as in some bacterial genomes, strongly suggesting that this new enzyme family represents the typical archaeal FBP aldolase. Because this new family shows no significant sequence similarity to classical Class I and II enzymes, a new name is proposed, archaeal type Class I FBP aldolases (FBP aldolase Class IA).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
3
pubmed:volume
276
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
28710-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Operon, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Protein Subunits, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Pyrococcus, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Pyrococcus furiosus, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-TATA Box, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Thermoproteaceae, pubmed-meshheading:11387336-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Archaeal fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolases constitute a new family of archaeal type class I aldolase.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, Universität Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany. bettina.siebers@uni-essen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't