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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 40, Pages 8794-8802Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi101358k
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- North Carolina Biotechnology Center
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Cysteine is the major sulfur donor for thio cofactors in bacterial and eukaryotic systems. The first step in sulfur mobilization involves a PEP-dependent enzymatic mechanism. During catalysis, free cysteine is converted into alanine with the concomitant formation of a persulfide bond with the catalytic cysteine residue, thus forming a covalent enzyme intermediate. Cysteine desulfurases in their persulfurated forms serve as donors at the intersection of various cellular sulfur-requiring pathways. Most Gram-positive bacteria, including Bacillus subtilis, contain a cysteine desulfurase gene sufS located adjacent to the gene encoding the proposed Fe-S cluster scaffold SufU. In this work, we identified the participation of SufU as a substrate in the SufS catalytic mechanism. Development of a sensitive method for detection of alanine formed in the SufS reaction enabled the identification of its associated mechanistic features. Steady-state kinetic analysis of alanine formation provided evidence of a double-displacement mechanism (ping-pong) of the cysteine:SufU sulfurtransferase reaction catalyzed by SufS. Results from site-directed mutagenesis of the catalytic cysteine (SufS(C361A)) and iodoacetamide alkylation of SufU support the occurrence of persulfide sulfur transfer steps in the mechanism of SufS.
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