Functional pyruvate formate lyase pathway expressed with two different electron donors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae at aerobic growth
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Pyruvate formate lyase (PFL) is characterized as an enzyme functional at anaerobic conditions, since the radical in the enzyme's active form is sensitive to oxygen. In this study, PFL and its activating enzyme from Escherichia coli were expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain lacking pyruvate decarboxylase and having a reduced glucose uptake rate due to a mutation in the transcriptional regulator Mth1, IMI076 (Pdc−MTH1-ΔT ura3–52). PFL was expressed with two different electron donors, reduced ferredoxin or reduced flavodoxin, respectively, and it was found that the coexpression of either of these electron donors had a positive effect on growth under aerobic conditions, indicating increased activity of PFL. The positive effect on growth was manifested as a higher final biomass concentration and a significant increase in transcription of formate dehydrogenases. Among the two electron donors reduced flavodoxin was found to be a better electron donor than reduced ferredoxin.Keywords:
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Pyruvate decarboxylase
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Ferredoxin, flavodoxin, and rubredoxin were purified to homogeneity from Clostridium formicoaceticum and characterized. Variation of the iron concentration of the growth medium caused substantial changes in the concentrations of ferredoxin and flavodoxin but not of rubredoxin. The ferredoxin has a molecular weight of 6,000 and is a four iron-four sulfur protein with eight cysteine residues. The spectrum is similar to that of other ferredoxins. The molar extinction coefficients are 22.6 X 10(3) and 17.6 X 10(3) at 280 and 390 nm, respectively. From 100 g wet weight of cells grown with 3.6 microM iron and with 40 microM iron, 5 and 20 mg offerredoxin were isolated, respectively. The molecular weight of rubredoxin is 5,800 and it contains one iron and four cysteines. The UV-visible absorption spectrum is dissimilar to those of other rubredoxins in that the 373 nm absorption peak is quite symmetric, lacking the characteristic 350-nm shoulder found in other rubredoxins. The flavodoxin is a 14,500-molecular-weight protein which contains 1 mol of flavin mononucleotide per mol of protein. It forms a stable, blue semiquinone upon light irradiation in the presence of EDTA or during enzymatic reduction. When cells were grown in low-iron medium, flavodoxin constituted at least 2% of the soluble cell protein; however, it was not detected in extracts of cells grown in high-iron medium. The rubredoxin and ferredoxin expressed during growth in low-iron and high-iron media are identical as judged by iron, inorganic sulfide, and amino acid analysis, as well as light absorption spectroscopy.
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Pyruvate formate lyase (PFL) is characterized as an enzyme functional at anaerobic conditions, since the radical in the enzyme's active form is sensitive to oxygen. In this study, PFL and its activating enzyme from Escherichia coli were expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain lacking pyruvate decarboxylase and having a reduced glucose uptake rate due to a mutation in the transcriptional regulator Mth1, IMI076 (Pdc−MTH1-ΔT ura3–52). PFL was expressed with two different electron donors, reduced ferredoxin or reduced flavodoxin, respectively, and it was found that the coexpression of either of these electron donors had a positive effect on growth under aerobic conditions, indicating increased activity of PFL. The positive effect on growth was manifested as a higher final biomass concentration and a significant increase in transcription of formate dehydrogenases. Among the two electron donors reduced flavodoxin was found to be a better electron donor than reduced ferredoxin.
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Abstract To understand why riboflavin is excreted by tobacco and some other Fe‐efficient dicotyledonous species under Fe stress, normal and Fe‐deficient tobacco were assayed for ferredoxin and flavodoxin, a ferredoxin replacement electron transpon molecule produced in some Fe‐stressed bacteria and algae. Decreases in leaf ferredoxin corresponded to decreases in leaf chlorophyll content. Activity of purified ferredoxin from Fe‐stressed leaves was slightly less than that from normal leaves. No flavodoxin could be detected in extracts from Fe‐stressed or normal tobacco leaves or roots, although abundant riboflavin was present in the Fe‐stressed tissues. Flavodoxin was isolated and purified from Clostridium oasteurianum and the antiserum prepared from this did not react with a likely protein from Fe‐stressed leaves, nor did it exhibit other properties of flavodoxin. A ferredoxin‐like protein was purified from roots of normal but not Fe‐stressed tobacco. It reacted with anti serum prepared from purified tobacco leaf ferredoxin and had the same mobility with SDS‐PAGE. It functioned when chemically reduced as an electron transpor. agent in a nitrite reductase catalyzed reduction of nitrite, but could not function in NADP+ reduction by illuminated chloroplasts as did ferredoxin. A possible in vivo role for increased riboflavin or FMN in Fe‐stressed tissue should still be considered.
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