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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 4, Pages 1109-1124Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07757.x
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council UK CSG
- Institute Development Fellowship [BB/E024467/1]
- National Institutes of Health [CA-0181138, GM-26290]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/F/00044403, BB/E024467/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/E024467/1, BBS/E/F/00044403] Funding Source: UKRI
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We have identified gene fusions of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC, speD) and aminopropyltransferase (speE) orthologues in diverse bacterial phyla. Both domains are functionally active and we demonstrate the novel de novo synthesis of the triamine spermidine from the diamine putrescine by fusion enzymes from beta-proteobacterium Delftia acidovorans and delta-proteobacterium Syntrophus aciditrophicus, in a Delta speDE gene deletion strain of Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium. Fusion proteins from marine alpha-proteobacterium Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique, actinobacterium Nocardia farcinica, chlorobi species Chloroherpeton thalassium, and beta-proteobacterium D. acidovorans each produce a different profile of non-native polyamines including sym-norspermidine when expressed in Escherichia coli. The different aminopropyltransferase activities together with phylogenetic analysis confirm independent evolutionary origins for some fusions. Comparative genomic analysis strongly indicates that gene fusions arose by merger of adjacent open reading frames. Independent fusion events, and horizontal and vertical gene transfer contributed to the scattered phyletic distribution of the gene fusions. Surprisingly, expression of fusion genes in E. coli and S. Typhimurium revealed novel latent spermidine catabolic activity producing non-native 1,3-diaminopropane in these species. We have also identified fusions of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes agmatine deiminase and N-carbamoylputrescine amidohydrolase in archaea, and of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase and ornithine decarboxylase in the single-celled green alga Micromonas.
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