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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
48
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-12-3
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
In animals, successful production of the visual chromophore (11-cis-retinal or derivatives thereof such as 11-cis-3-hydroxy-retinal) is essential for photoreceptor cell function and survival. These carotenoid-derived compounds must combine with a protein moiety (the opsin) to establish functional visual pigments. Evidence from cell culture systems has implicated that the retinal pigment epithelium protein of 65 kDa (RPE65) is the long-sought all-trans to 11-cis retinoid isomerase. RPE65 is structurally related to nonheme iron oxygenases that catalyze the conversion of carotenoids into retinoids. In vertebrate genomes, two carotenoid oxygenases and RPE65 are encoded, whereas in insect genomes only a single representative of this protein family, named NinaB (denoting neither inactivation nor afterpotential mutant B), is encoded. We here cloned and functionally characterized the ninaB gene from the great wax moth Galleria mellonella. We show that the recombinant purified enzyme combines isomerase and oxygenase (isomerooxygenase) activity in a single polypeptide. From kinetics and isomeric composition of cleavage products of asymmetrical carotenoid substrates, we propose a model for the spatial arrangement between substrate and enzyme. In Drosophila, we show that carotenoid-isomerooxygenase activity of NinaB is more generally found in insects, and we provide physiological evidence that carotenoids such as 11-cis-retinal can promote visual pigment biogenesis in the dark. Our study demonstrates that trans/cis isomerase activity can be intrinsic to this class of proteins and establishes these enzymes as key components for both invertebrate and vertebrate vision.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Drosophila Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Insect Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oxygenases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Retinal Pigments, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Retinaldehyde, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Xanthophylls, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta Carotene, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta-Carotene 15,15'-Monooxygenase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/carotenoid oxygenase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/cis-trans-Isomerases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ninaB protein, Drosophila, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/retinol isomerase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/zeaxanthin
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1091-6490
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
105
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19000-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Drosophila melanogaster, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Insect Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Moths, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Oxidation-Reduction, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Oxygenases, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Retinal Pigments, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Retinaldehyde, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-Xanthophylls, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-beta Carotene, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-beta-Carotene 15,15'-Monooxygenase, pubmed-meshheading:19020100-cis-trans-Isomerases
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
NinaB combines carotenoid oxygenase and retinoid isomerase activity in a single polypeptide.
pubmed:affiliation
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Institut für Biologie I, Neurobiologie und Tiephysiologie, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't