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J Bacteriol ; 183(14): 4235-43, 2001 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11418564

RESUMO

Polyhydroxyalkanoic acids (PHAs) are a class of polyesters stored in inclusion bodies and found in many bacteria and in some archaea. The terminal step in the synthesis of PHA is catalyzed by PHA synthase. Genes encoding this enzyme have been cloned, and the primary sequence of the protein, PhaC, is deduced from the nucleotide sequences of more than 30 organisms. PHA synthases are grouped into three classes based on substrate range, molecular mass, and whether or not there is a requirement for phaE in addition to the phaC gene product. Here we report the results of an analysis of a PHA synthase that does not fit any of the described classes. This novel PHA synthase from Bacillus megaterium required PhaC (PhaC(Bm)) and PhaR (PhaR(Bm)) for activity in vivo and in vitro. PhaC(Bm) showed greatest similarity to the PhaCs of class III in both size and sequence. Unlike those in class III, the 40-kDa PhaE was not required, and furthermore, the 22-kDa PhaR(Bm) had no obvious homology to PhaE. Previously we showed that PhaC(Bm), and here we show that PhaR(Bm), is localized to inclusion bodies in living cells. We show that two forms of PHA synthase exist, an active form in PHA-accumulating cells and an inactive form in nonaccumulating cells. PhaC was constitutively produced in both cell types but was more susceptible to protease degradation in the latter type. Our data show that the role of PhaR is posttranscriptional and that it functions directly or indirectly with PhaC(Bm) to produce an active PHA synthase.


Assuntos
Aciltransferases/metabolismo , Bacillus megaterium/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Proteínas Repressoras , Aciltransferases/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Bacillus megaterium/enzimologia , Bacillus megaterium/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Sequência de Bases , DNA Bacteriano , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos
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J Bacteriol ; 181(2): 585-92, 1999 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9882674

RESUMO

Polyhydroxyalkanoic acids (PHA) are carbon and energy storage polymers that accumulate in inclusion bodies in many bacteria and archaea in response to environmental conditions. This work presents the results of a study of PHA inclusion body-associated proteins and an analysis of their coding region in Bacillus megaterium 11561. A 7, 917-bp fragment of DNA was cloned and shown to carry a 4,104-bp cluster of 5 pha genes, phaP, -Q, -R, -B, and -C. The phaP and -Q genes were shown to be transcribed in one orientation, each from a separate promoter, while immediately upstream, phaR, -B, and -C were divergently transcribed as a tricistronic operon. Transfer of this gene cluster to Escherichia coli and to a PhaC- mutant of Pseudomonas putida gave a Pha+ phenotype in both strains. Translational fusions to the green fluorescent protein localized PhaP and PhaC to the PHA inclusion bodies in living cells. The data presented are consistent with the hypothesis that the extremely hydrophilic protein PhaP is a storage protein and suggests that PHA inclusion bodies are not only a source of carbon, energy, and reducing equivalents but are also a source of amino acids.


Assuntos
Aciltransferases/genética , Bacillus megaterium/genética , Bacillus megaterium/metabolismo , Genes Bacterianos , Corpos de Inclusão/metabolismo , Família Multigênica , Óperon , Poliésteres/metabolismo , Aciltransferases/química , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Bacillus megaterium/ultraestrutura , Clonagem Molecular , Escherichia coli/genética , Técnicas de Transferência de Genes , Corpos de Inclusão/ultraestrutura , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Biblioteca de Peptídeos , Pseudomonas/genética , Pseudomonas putida/genética , Mapeamento por Restrição , Alinhamento de Sequência , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Transcrição Gênica
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