The phylogenetic origin of the bifunctional tyrosine-pathway protein in the enteric lineage of bacteria |
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Authors: | Ahmad S; Jensen RA |
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Institution: | Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611. |
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Abstract: | Because bifunctional enzymes are distinctive and highly conserved products
of relatively infrequent gene-fusion events, they are particularly useful
markers to identify clusters of organisms at different hierarchical levels
of a phylogenetic tree. Within the subdivision of gram-negative bacteria
known as superfamily B, there are two distinctive types of tyrosine-pathway
dehydrogenases: (1) a broad- specificity dehydrogenase (recently termed
cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenase CDH]) that can utilize either prephenate or
L-arogenate as alternative substrates and (2) a bifunctional CDH that also
posseses chorismate mutase activity. (T-proteins). The bifunctional
T-protein, thought to be encoded by fused ancestral genes for chorismate
mutase and CDH, was found to be present in enteric bacteria (Escherichia,
Shigella, Salmonella, Citrobacter, Klebsiella, Erwinia, Serratia,
Morganella, Cedecea, Kluyvera, Hafnia, Edwardsiella, Yersinia, and Proteus)
and in Aeromonas and Alteromonas. Outside of the latter "enteric lineage,"
the T-protein is absent in other major superfamily-B genera, such as
Pseudomonas (rRNA homology group I), Xanthomonas, Acinetobacter, and
Oceanospirillum. Hence, the T-protein must have evolved after the
divergence of the enteric and Oceanospirillum lineages.
3-Deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase-phe, an early-pathway
isozyme sensitive to feedback inhibition by L- phenylalanine, has been
found in each member of the enteric lineage examined. The absence of both
the T-protein and DAHP synthase-phe elsewhere in superfamily B indicates
the emergence of these character states at approximately the same
evolutionary time.
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