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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
46
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-11
pubmed:abstractText
The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 (now renamed Nostoc PCC 7120) possesses two genes for superoxide dismutase (SOD). One is an iron-containing (FeSOD) whereas the other is a manganese-containing superoxide dismutase (MnSOD). Localization experiments and analysis of the sequence showed that the FeSOD is cytosolic, whereas the MnSOD is a membrane-bound homodimeric protein containing one transmembrane helix, a spacer region, and a soluble catalytic domain. It is localized in both cytoplasmic and thylakoid membranes at the same extent with the catalytic domains positioned either in the periplasm or the thylakoid lumen. A phylogenetic analysis revealed that generally the highly homologous MnSODs of filamentous cyanobacteria are unique in being membrane-bound. Two recombinant variants of Anabaena MnSOD lacking either the hydrophobic region (MnSOD(Delta 28)) or the hydrophobic and the linker region (MnSOD(Delta 60)) are shown to exhibit the characteristic manganese peak at 480 nm, an almost 100% occupancy of manganese per subunit, a specific activity using the ferricytochrome assay of (660 +/- 90) unit mg-1 protein and a dissociation constant for the inhibitor azide of (0.84 +/- 0.05) mm. Using stopped-flow spectroscopy it is shown that the decay of superoxide in the presence of various (MnSOD(Delta 28)) or (MnSOD(Delta 60)) concentrations is first-order in enzyme concentration allowing the calculation of catalytic rate constants which increase with decreasing pH: 8 x 10(6) m-1 s-1 (pH 10) and 6 x 10(7) m-1 s-1 (pH 7). The physiological relevance of these findings is discussed with respect to the bioenergetic peculiarities of cyanobacteria.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
277
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
43615-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Anabaena, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Catalysis, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Cytoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Manganese, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Periplasm, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Superoxide Dismutase, pubmed-meshheading:12215453-Thylakoids
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Biochemical characterization of a membrane-bound manganese-containing superoxide dismutase from the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Chemistry, University of Agricultural Sciences, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't