Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 582, Issue 20, Pages 3025-3028Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.07.038
Keywords
glycerate kinase; bacteria; cyanobacteria; fungi; plants
Funding
- the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [BA 1177/5-1]
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D-Glycerate kinases (GK) occur in three phylogenetically distinct classes. Class II GKs produce glycerate 2-phosphate, while both class I GK and class III GK (GLYK) are thought to produce glycerate 3-phosphate. We report on the identification of a bacterial-type class I GK in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 and of a plant-type GLYK in the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120. The comparison with other prokaryotic and eukaryotic GKs of both classes shows that glycerate 3-phosphate is produced only by the GLYKs, but, in contrast to current thinking, not by any of the examined class I enzymes. (C) 2008 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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