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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 50, Pages 48657-48663Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M206924200
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In the first step of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in Escherichia coli, glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GluTR, encoded by hemA) catalyzes the NADPH-dependent reduction of glutamyl-tRNA to glutamate-l-semialdehyde. Soluble homodimeric E. coli GluTR was made by co-expressing the hemA gene and the chaperone genes dnaJK and grpE. During Mg2+-stimulated catalysis, the reactive sulfhydryl group of Cys-50 in the E. coli enzyme attacks the a-carbonyl group of the tRNA-bound glutamate. The resulting thioester intermediate was trapped and detected by autoradiography. In the presence of NADPH, the end product, glutamate-l-semialdehyde, is formed. In the absence of NADPH, E. coli GluTR exhibited substrate esterase activity. The in vitro synthesized unmodified glutamyl-tRNA was an acceptable substrate for E. coli GluTR. Eight 5-aminolevulinic acid auxotrophic E. coli hemA mutants were genetically selected, and the corresponding mutations were determined. Most of the recombinant purified mutant GluTR enzymes lacked detectable activity. Based on the Methanopyrus kandleri GluTR structure, the positions of the amino acid exchanges are close to the catalytic domain (G7D, E114K, R314C, S22L/S164F, G44C/S105N/A326T, G106N, S145F). Only GluTR G191D (affected in NADPH binding) revealed esterase but no reductase activity.
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