期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 289, 期 46, 页码 32214-32229出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.594325
关键词
Chlamydia; Crystallography; Enzyme Kinetics; Quinone; Respiration
资金
- United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
- National Institutes of Health from the NCRR [5P20RR017708-10]
- National Institutes of Health from NIGMS [8 P20 GM103420-10]
The obligate intracellular human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis is the etiological agent of blinding trachoma and sexually transmitted disease. Genomic sequencing of Chlamydia indicated this medically important bacterium was not exclusively dependent on the host cell for energy. In order for the electron transport chain to function, electron shuttling between membrane-embedded complexes requires lipid-soluble quinones (e.g. menaquionone or ubiquinone). The sources or biosynthetic pathways required to obtain these electron carriers within C. trachomatis are poorly understood. The 1.58 angstrom crystal structure of C. trachomatis hypothetical protein CT263 presented here supports a role in quinone biosynthesis. Although CT263 lacks sequence-based functional annotation, the crystal structure of CT263 displays striking structural similarity to 5-methylthioadenosine nucleosidase (MTAN) enzymes. Although CT263 lacks the active site-associated dimer interface found in prototypical MTANs, co-crystal structures with product (adenine) or substrate (5-methylthioadenosine) indicate that the canonical active site residues are conserved. Enzymatic characterization of CT263 indicates that the futalosine pathway intermediate 6-amino-6-deoxyfutalosine (k(cat)/K-m = 1.8 x 10(3) m(-1) s(-1)), but not the prototypical MTAN substrates (e.g. S-adenosylhomocysteine and 5-methylthioadenosine), is hydrolyzed. Bioinformatic analyses of the chlamydial proteome also support the futalosine pathway toward the synthesis of menaquinone in Chlamydiaceae. This report provides the first experimental support for quinone synthesis in Chlamydia. Menaquinone synthesis provides another target for agents to combat C. trachomatis infection.
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