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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 286, 期 23, 页码 20313-20322出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M110.212605
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- University of British Columbia
- Pacific Century Graduate Fellowship
- John Richard Turner Fellowship in Microbiology
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Killam Research Fellowship
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G021546/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Heme and bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl) biosyntheses share the same pathway to protoporphyrin IX, which then branches as follows. Fe2+ chelation into the macrocycle by ferrochelatase results in heme formation, and Mg2+ addition by Mg-chelatase commits the porphyrin to BChl synthesis. It was recently discovered that a bchD (Mg-chelatase) mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides produces an alternative BChl in which Mg2+ is substituted by Zn2+. Zn-BChl has been found in only one other organism before, the acidophilic Acidiphilium rubrum. Our objectives in this work on the bchD mutant were to 1) elucidate the Zn-BChl biosynthetic pathway in this organism and 2) understand causes for the low amounts of Zn-BChl produced. The bchD mutant was found to contain a Zn-protoporphyrin IX pool, analogous to the Mg-protoporphyrin IX pool found in the wild type strain. Inhibition of ferrochelatase with N-methylprotoporphyrin IX caused Zn-protoporphyrin IX and Zn-BChl levels to decline by 80-90% in the bchD mutant, whereas in the wild type strain, Mg-protoporphyrin IX and Mg-BChl levels increased by 170-240%. Two early metabolites of the Zn-BChl pathway were isolated from the bchD mutant and identified as Zn-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester and divinyl-Zn-protochlorophyllide. Our data support a model in which ferrochelatase synthesizes Zn-protoporphyrin IX, and this metabolite is acted on by enzymes of the BChl pathway to produce Zn-BChl. Finally, the low amounts of Zn-BChl in the bchD mutant may be due, at least in part, to a bottleneck upstream of the step where divinyl-Zn-protochlorophyllide is converted to monovinyl-Zn-protochlorophyllide.
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