Journal
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 23, Issue 15, Pages 4405-4409Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.06.021
Keywords
Carbonic anhydrase; Metalloenzymes; Inhibitors; Anions; Psychrophiles; Hydratase activity; Antarctic carbonic anhydrase; Cold adaptation; Cold-enzymes
Funding
- Italian National Antarctic Research Project PNRA [2013/AZ1.02]
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A new c-class carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) was cloned, purified and characterized from the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis, PhaCA gamma. The enzyme has a medium-low catalytic activity for the physiologic reaction of CO2 hydration to bicarbonate and protons, with a k(cat) of 1.4 x 10(5) s (1) and a k(cat)/K-m of 1.9 x 10(6) M (1) s (1). An anion inhibition study of PhaCA gamma with inorganic anions and small molecule inhibitors is also reported. Many anions present in sea water, such as chloride, fluoride, sulfate, iodide, but also others such as azide, perchlorate and tetrafluoroborate did not inhibit this enzyme. Pseudohalides such as cyanate, thiocyanate, cyanide, selenocyanide, and also bicarbonate, nitrate, nitrite and many complex inorganic anions showed inhibition in the millimolar range (K-I in the range of 1.7-9.3 mM). The best PhaCA gamma inhibitors detected in this study were diethyldithiocarbamate (K-I of 0.96 mM) as well as sulfamide, sulfamate, phenylboronic acid and phenylarsonic acid (K-I in the range of 82-91 mu M). Since gamma-CAs are poorly understood at this moment, being present in carboxysomes and thus involved in photosynthesis, this study may be relevant for a better understanding of these processes in Antarctic bacteria/cyanobacteria. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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