The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of the chemolithoautotrophic bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans has an unusual E2-E3 subunit fusion
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- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Microbiology
- Vol. 143 (7) , 2189-2195
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-143-7-2189
Abstract
Summary: The genes encoding pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans were previously located by cloning and sequence analysis of the region upstream of the genes encoding the citrate synthase and -glutamylcysteine synthetase genes. The pdh genes of T. ferrooxidans were able to complement an Escherichia coli aroP-lpd mutant for growth on minimal medium lacking acetate, indicating that the T. ferrooxidans PDH complex was functional in E. coli. The predicted amino acid sequence of the T. ferrooxidans PDH complex contained three ORFs. The first ORF encoded a 36.7 kDa homologue of the PDH complex E1α subunit, the second ORF a 37.4 kDa E1α subunit and the third ORF an unusual 102 kDa fusion of the E2 and E3 subunits. In spite of T. ferrooxidans being a Gram-negative bacterium, its PDH complex had more features in common with Gram-positive bacteria and eukaryotes.Keywords
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- Foundation for Research Development and Gencor
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