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Akiko Kita Asako Kishimoto Takahiro Shimosaka Hiroya Tomita Yuusuke Yokooji Tadayuki Imanaka Haruyuki Atomi Kunio Miki 《Proteins》2020,88(5):718-724
The coenzyme A biosynthesis pathways in most archaea involve two unique enzymes, pantoate kinase and phosphopantothenate synthetase, to convert pantoate to 4′-phosphopantothenate. Here, we report the first crystal structure of pantoate kinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus kodakarensis and its complex with ATP and a magnesium ion. The electron density for the adenosine moiety of ATP was very weak, which most likely relates to its broad nucleotide specificity. Based on the structure of the active site that contains a glycerol molecule, the pantoate binding site and the roles of the highly conserved residues are suggested. 相似文献
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Grote R Li L Tamaoka J Kato C Horikoshi K Antranikian G 《Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions》1999,3(1):55-62
A novel coccoid-shaped, hyperthermophilic, anaerobic archaeon, strain RG-20, was isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
fluid sample taken at 1394-m depth at the Mid-Okinawa Trough (27°32.7′N, 126°58.5′E). Cells of this isolate occur singly or
in pairs and are about 0.8 to 2 μm in diameter. Growth was observed at temperatures between 50° and 93°C, with an optimum
at 85°C. The pH range for growth is 5.0–9.0, with an optimum around 7.0. Strain RG-20 requires 1%–4% of NaCl for growth, and
cell lysis occurs at concentrations below 1%. The newly isolated strain grows preferentially in the presence of elemental
sulfur on proteinaceous substrates such as yeast extract, peptone, or tryptone, and no growth was observed on carbohydrates,
carboxylic acids, alcohols, or lipids. This microorganism is resistant to streptomycin, chloramphenicol, ampicillin, and kanamycin
at concentrations up to 150 μg/ml, but is susceptible to rifampicin. Analysis of the hydrolyzed core lipids by thin-layer
chromatography (TLC) revealed the presence of archaeol and caldarchaeol. The mol% G+C content of the DNA is 55.8. Partial
sequencing of the 16S rDNA indicates that strain RG-20 belongs to the genus Thermococcus. Considering these data and on the basis of the results from DNA-DNA hybridization studies, we propose that this strain should
be classified as a new species named Thermococcus siculi (si′cu.li. L. gen. n. siculi, of the deep-sea [siculum, deep-sea in literature of Ovid], referring to the location of the sample site, a deep-sea hydrothermal vent). The type strain
is isolate RG-20 (DSM No. 12349).
Received: May 11, 1998 / Accepted: July 24, 1998 相似文献
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Mechanism of pressure-induced thermostabilization of proteins: studies of glutamate dehydrogenases from the hyperthermophile Thermococcus litoralis 下载免费PDF全文
Sun MM Caillot R Mak G Robb FT Clark DS 《Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society》2001,10(9):1750-1757
In this study, we investigated the effect of pressure on protein structure and stability at high temperature. Thermoinactivation experiments at 5 and 500 atm were performed using the wild-type (WT) enzyme and two single mutants (D167T and T138E) of the glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) from the hyperthermophile Thermococcus litoralis. All three GDHs were stabilized, although to different degrees, by the application of 500 atm. Interestingly, the degree of pressure stabilization correlated with GDH stability as well as the magnitude of electrostatic repulsion created by residues at positions 138 and 167. Thermoinactivation experiments also were performed in the presence of trehalose. Addition of the sugar stabilized all three GDHs; the degree of sugar-induced thermostabilization followed the same order as pressure stabilization. Previous studies suggested a mechanism whereby the enzyme adopts a more compact and rigid structure and volume fluctuations away from the native state are diminished under pressure. The present results on the three GDHs allowed us to further confirm and refine the proposed mechanism for pressure-induced thermostabilization. In particular, we propose that pressure stabilizes against thermoinactivation by shifting the equilibrium between conformational substates of the GDH hexamer, thus inhibiting irreversible aggregation. 相似文献
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Cleavage of a DNA-RNA-DNA/DNA chimeric substrate containing a single ribonucleotide at the DNA-RNA junction with prokaryotic RNases HII 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We have analyzed the cleavage specificities of various prokaryotic Type 2 ribonucleases H (RNases H) on chimeric DNA-RNA-DNA/DNA substrates containing one to four ribonucleotides. RNases HII from Bacillus subtilis and Thermococcus kodakaraensis cleaved all of these substrates to produce a DNA segment with a 5'-monoribonucleotide. Consequently, these enzymes cleaved even the chimeric substrate containing a single ribonucleotide at the DNA-RNA junction (5'-side of the single ribonucleotide). In contrast, Escherichia coli RNase HI and B. subtilis RNase HIII did not cleave the chimeric substrate containing a single ribonucleotide. These results suggest that bacterial and archaeal RNases HII are involved in excision of a single ribonucleotide misincorporated into DNA. 相似文献
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Hubert Gantelet Christine Ladrat Anne Godfroy Georges Barbier Francis Duchiron 《Biotechnology letters》1998,20(9):819-823
Two out of three extremely thermophilic anaerobic archaea, isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, produced pullulanase activity in the presence of maltose in the growth medium. Enzyme activities were mainly extracellular and characterized by optimum temperatures of 95°C and 80–95°C, optimum pH of 5.0–7.0 and a high degree of thermostability. One strain when grown in a fermenter with maltose as inducer produced pullulanase at 35 U/l. © Rapid Science Ltd. 1998 相似文献
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Siddiqui MA Yamanaka A Hirooka K Bamaba T Kobayashi A Imanaka T Fukusaki E Fujiwara S 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2005,331(4):1127-1136
Enzymatic and thermodynamic characteristics of type II isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP):dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) isomerase (Tk-IDI) from Thermococcus kodakaraensis, which catalyzes the interconversion of IPP and DMAPP, were examined. FMN was tightly bound to Tk-IDI, and the enzyme required NADPH and Mg2+ for the isomerization in both directions. The melting temperature (Tm), the change of enthalpy (deltaH(m)), and the heat capacity change (deltaC(p)) of Tk-IDI were 88.0 degrees C, 444 kJ mol(-1), and 13.2 kJ mol(-1) K(-1), respectively, indicating that Tk-IDI is fairly thermostable. Kinetic parameters dramatically changed when the temperature crossed 80 degrees C even though its native overall structure was stably maintained up to 90 degrees C, suggesting that local conformational change would occur around 80 degrees C. This speculation was supported by the result of the circular dichroism analysis that showed the shift of the alpha-helical content occurred at 80 degrees C. 相似文献
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The thermal death mechanism of microorganisms when heated at lethally high temperatures is still not fully understood. In this study, we examined the relationship between thermal death and degradation of the cell structure in the mesophilic bacterium Escherichia coli strain W3110 and the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus sp. strain Tc-1-95. By heating the microorganisms at lethally high temperatures only briefly (1.5 s duration) in a flow-type apparatus, we studied the microbial cells at very early and critical stages of the thermal death process. For E. coli, it was found that the loss of viability was not associated with thermal damage to the cell envelope. Deformation of the nucleoid was observed. These results suggest that the thermal death of E. coli is attributed to thermal denaturation or degradation of cytoplasmic molecules. On the other hand, the thermal death of Thermococcus sp. strain Tc-1-95 was strongly associated with rupture of the cell envelope. Furthermore, massive deformation of the S-layer with lethal thermal stress was observed. These results demonstrate that the thermal deaths of the two microorganisms investigated proceed via very different mechanisms. The contrast can be attributed to the difference in their cell envelope structures. 相似文献
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Cuneo MJ Changela A Warren JJ Beese LS Hellinga HW 《Journal of molecular biology》2006,362(2):259-270
Periplasmic binding proteins (PBPs) comprise a protein superfamily that is involved in prokaryotic solute transport and chemotaxis. These proteins have been used to engineer reagentless biosensors to detect natural or non-natural ligands. There is considerable interest in obtaining very stable members of this superfamily from thermophilic bacteria to use as robust engineerable parts in biosensor development. Analysis of the recently determined genome sequence of Thermus thermophilus revealed the presence of more than 30 putative PBPs in this thermophile. One of these is annotated as a glucose binding protein (GBP) based on its genetic linkage to genes that are homologous to an ATP-binding cassette glucose transport system, although the PBP sequence is homologous to periplasmic maltose binding proteins (MBPs). Here we present the cloning, over-expression, characterization of cognate ligands, and determination of the X-ray crystal structure of this gene product. We find that it is a very stable (apo-protein Tm value is 100(+/- 2) degrees C; complexes 106(+/- 3) degrees C and 111(+/- 1) degrees C for glucose and galactose, respectively) glucose (Kd value is 0.08(+/- 0.03) microM) and galactose (Kd value is 0.94(+/- 0.04) microM) binding protein. Determination of the X-ray crystal structure revealed that this T. thermophilus glucose binding protein (ttGBP) is structurally homologous to MBPs rather than other GBPs. The di or tri-saccharide ligands in MBPs are accommodated in long relatively shallow grooves. In the ttGBP binding site, this groove is partially filled by two loops and an alpha-helix, which create a buried binding site that allows binding of only monosaccharides. Comparison of ttGBP and MBP provides a clear example of structural adaptations by which the size of ligand binding sites can be controlled in the PBP super family. 相似文献
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Tk-subtilisin (a subtilisin homologue from Thermococcus kodakaraensis) is matured from Pro-Tk-subtilisin upon autoprocessing and degradation of Tk-propeptide. To analyze the folding mechanism of Tk-subtilisin, the crystal structure of the active site mutant of Tk-subtilisin (S324A-subtilisin∗), which was refolded in the presence of Ca2+ and absence of Tk-propeptide, was determined at 2.16 Å resolution. This structure is essentially the same as that of Tk-subtilisin matured from Pro-Tk-subtilisin. S324A-subtilisin∗ was refolded with a rate constant of 0.17 and 1.8 min−1 at 30 °C in the absence and presence of Tk-propeptide, respectively, indicating that Tk-subtilisin does not require Tk-propeptide for folding but requires it for acceleration of folding. 相似文献