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2-Cys Prxs are H2O2-specific antioxidants that become inactivated by enzyme hyperoxidation at elevated H2O2 levels. Although hyperoxidation restricts the antioxidant physiological role of these enzymes, it also allows the enzyme to become an efficient chaperone holdase. The critical molecular event allowing the peroxidase to chaperone switch is thought to be the enzyme assembly into high molecular weight (HMW) structures brought about by enzyme hyperoxidation. How hyperoxidation promotes HMW assembly is not well understood and Prx mutants allowing disentangling its peroxidase and chaperone functions are lacking. To begin addressing the link between enzyme hyperoxidation and HMW structures formation, we have evaluated the in vivo 2-Cys Prxs quaternary structure changes induced by H2O2 by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) on crude lysates, using wild type (Wt) untagged and Myc-tagged S. cerevisiae 2-Cys Prx Tsa1 and derivative Tsa1 mutants or genetic conditions known to inactivate peroxidase or chaperone activity or altering the enzyme sensitivity to hyperoxidation. Our data confirm the strict causative link between H2O2-induced hyperoxidation and HMW formation/stabilization, also raising the question of whether CP hyperoxidation triggers the assembly of HMW structures by the stacking of decamers, which is the prevalent view of the literature, or rather, the stabilization of preassembled stacked decamers.
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Regulación Fúngica de la Expresión Génica , Chaperonas Moleculares/química , Peroxidasas/química , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/química , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/química , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Ácidos Sulfínicos/química , Cromatografía en Gel , Peróxido de Hidrógeno/farmacología , Isoenzimas/química , Isoenzimas/genética , Isoenzimas/metabolismo , Chaperonas Moleculares/genética , Chaperonas Moleculares/metabolismo , Mutación , Peroxidasas/genética , Peroxidasas/metabolismo , Plásmidos/química , Plásmidos/metabolismo , Multimerización de Proteína , Estructura Cuaternaria de Proteína , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/metabolismo , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/efectos de los fármacos , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzimología , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Ácidos Sulfínicos/metabolismoRESUMEN
Nitric oxide (NO) is a highly reactive water-soluble gas encountered by bacteria endogenously as an intermediate of denitrification and exogenously as one of the radical species deployed by macrophages against invading pathogens. Bacteria therefore require a mechanism to detoxify NO. Escherichia coli flavorubredoxin and its associated oxidoreductase, encoded by the norV and norW genes respectively, reduces NO to nitrous oxide under anaerobic conditions. Transcription of the norVW genes is activated in response to NO by the sigma(54)-dependent regulator NorR, a member of the prokaryotic enhancer binding protein family. NorR binds co-operatively to three enhancer sites to regulate transcription of both norVW and the divergently transcribed norR gene. In the present paper, we show that disruption of any one of the three GT-(N(7))-AC NorR binding sites in the norR-norVW intergenic region prevents both activation of norVW expression and autogenous repression of the norR promoter by NorR. We have recently demonstrated that the N-terminal GAF (cGMP-specific and -stimulated phosphodiesterases, Anabaena adenylate cyclases and Escherichia coli FhlA) domain of NorR contains a non-haem mononuclear iron centre and senses NO by formation of a mono-nitrosyl iron complex. Site-directed mutagenesis has identified candidate protein ligands to the ferrous iron centre in the GAF domain.
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Proteínas de Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Regulación Bacteriana de la Expresión Génica , Óxido Nítrico/metabolismo , Transactivadores/metabolismo , Transcripción Genética , Elementos de Facilitación Genéticos , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/genética , Modelos Genéticos , Transactivadores/genéticaRESUMEN
Nitric oxide is an intermediate of denitrification, and is one of the radical species deployed by macrophages against invading pathogens, therefore bacterial responses to NO are of considerable importance. The Escherichia coli flavorubredoxin and its associated oxidoreductase reduce NO to nitrous oxide under anaerobic conditions, and are encoded by the norVW transcription unit. Expression of norVW requires the NO sensing regulatory protein NorR and is dependent on RNA polymerase containing the alternative sigma factor, sigma(54). We have purified NorR and shown that it binds to three sites in the norVW promoter region, located 75-140 bp upstream of the experimentally verified transcription start site. We have also identified two binding sites for the integration host factor, one between the NorR sites and the sigma(54)-RNA polymerase binding site, and a second downstream of the norVW transcription start site. Comparison of the norVW promoters of enteric bacteria along with known and putative NorR-regulated promoters from Vibrio, Ralstonia and Pseudomonas species suggests that NorR binding sites contain an invariant GT(N7)AC motif flanking an AT-rich central region. The identification of a consensus for NorR binding sites will help to elucidate additional members of the NorR regulon.