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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 202, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00056-20
Keywords
Escherichia coli; pyridoxal phosphate; pyridoxal reductase; pyridoxal salvage; pyridoxine; vitamin B-6
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- JSPS KAKENHI [17KK0153]
- National Institutes of Health [GM095837]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17KK0153] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) is the biologically active form of vitamin B-6 and an essential cofactor in all organisms. In Escherichia coli, PLP is synthesized via the deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate (DXP)-dependent pathway that includes seven enzymatic steps and generates pyridoxine 5'-phosphate as an intermediate. Additionally, E. coli is able to salvage pyridoxal, pyridoxine, and pyridoxamine B-6 vitamers to produce PLP using kinases PdxK/PdxY and pyridox(am)ine phosphate oxidase (PdxH). We found that E. coli strains blocked in PLP synthesis prior to the formation of pyridoxine 5'-phosphate (PNP) required significantly less exogenous pyridoxal (PL) than strains lacking pdxH and identified the conversion of PL to pyridoxine (PN) during cultivation to be the cause. Our data showed that PdxI, shown to have PL reductase activity in vitro, was required for the efficient salvage of PL in E. coli. The pdxI(+) E. coli strains converted exogenous PL to PN during growth, while pdxI mutants did not. In total, the data herein demonstrated that PdxI is a critical enzyme in the salvage of PL by E. coli. IMPORTANCE The biosynthetic pathway of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) has extensively been studied in Escherichia coli, yet limited information is available about the vitamin B-6 salvage pathway. We show that the protein PdxI (YdbC) is the primary pyridoxal (PL) reductase in E. coli and is involved in the salvage of PL. The orthologs of PdxI occur in a wide range of bacteria and plants, suggesting that PL reductase in the B-6 salvage pathway is more widely distributed than previously expected.
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