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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 23, Pages 7888-7895Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.23.7888-7895.2004
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [P50 GM062407, R01 GM060329, GM 62407, GM 60329] Funding Source: Medline
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Rubrerythrin was purified by multistep chromatography under anaerobic, reducing conditions from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. It is a homodimer with a molecular mass of 39.2 kDa and contains 2.9 +/- 0.2 iron atoms per subunit. The purified protein had peroxidase activity at 85degreesC using hydrogen peroxide with reduced P. furiosus rubredoxin as the electron donor. The specific activity was 36 mumol of rubredoxin oxidized/min/mg with apparent K-m values of 35 and 70 muM for hydrogen peroxide and rubredoxin, respectively. When rubrerythrin was combined with rubredoxin and P. furiosus NADH:rubredoxin oxidoreductase, the complete system used NADH as the electron donor to reduce hydrogen peroxide with a specific activity of 7.0 mumol of H2O2 reduced/min/ing of rubrerythrin at 85degreesC. Strangely, as-purified (reduced) rubrerythrin precipitated when oxidized by either hydrogen peroxide, air, or ferricyanide. The gene (PF1283) encoding rubrerythrin was expressed in Escherichia coli grown in medium with various metal contents. The purified recombinant proteins each contained approximately three metal atoms/subunit, ranging from 0.4 Fe plus 2.2 Zn to 1.9 Fe plus 1.2 Zn, where the metal content of the protein depended on the metal content of the E. coli growth medium. The peroxidase activities of the recombinant forms were proportional to the iron content. P. furiosus rubrerythrin is the first to be characterized from a hyperthermophile or from an archaeon, and the results are the first demonstration that this protein functions in an NADH-dependent, hydrogen peroxide: rubredoxin oxidoreductase system. Rubrerythrin is proposed to play a role in the recently defined anaerobic detoxification pathway for reactive oxygen species.
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