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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS
卷 1722, 期 2, 页码 175-182出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2004.12.003
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L-Tyrosine decarboxylase; coenzyme biosynthesis; methanofuran; Methanocaldococcus jannaschii
Methanofuran is the first coenzyme in the methanogenic pathway used by the archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, as well as other methanogens, to reduce CO2 to methane. The details of the pathway for the biosynthesis of methanofuran and the responsible genes have yet to be established. A clear structural element in all known methanofurans is tyramine, likely produced by the decarboxylation of L-tyrosine. We show here that the mfnA gene at M. jannaschii locus MJ0050 encodes a thermostable pyridoxal phosphate-dependent L-tyrosine decarboxylase that specifically produces tyramine. Homologs of this gene are widely distributed among euryarchaea but are not specifically related to known bacterial or plant tyrosine decarboxylases. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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