Functional plasticity of a peroxidase allows evolution of diverse disulfide-reducing pathways

In Escherichia coli, the glutathione/glutaredoxin and thioredoxin pathways are essential for the reduction of cytoplasmic protein disulfide bonds, including those formed in the essential enzyme ribonucleotide reductase during its action on substrates. Double mutants lacking thioredoxin reductase (tr...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 105; no. 18; p. 6735
Main Authors: Faulkner, Melinda J, Veeravalli, Karthik, Gon, Stéphanie, Georgiou, George, Beckwith, Jon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 06.05.2008
Subjects:
Alkaline Phosphatase - metabolism
Biological Evolution
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Cysteine - metabolism
Cytoplasm - enzymology
Dipeptides - analysis
Disulfides - metabolism
Escherichia coli - enzymology
Escherichia coli Proteins - metabolism
Glutaredoxins - metabolism
Kinetics
Mutation - genetics
NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases - metabolism
Oxidation-Reduction
Peroxidase - metabolism
Suppression, Genetic
Thioredoxins - metabolism
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Abstract In Escherichia coli, the glutathione/glutaredoxin and thioredoxin pathways are essential for the reduction of cytoplasmic protein disulfide bonds, including those formed in the essential enzyme ribonucleotide reductase during its action on substrates. Double mutants lacking thioredoxin reductase (trxB) and glutathione reductase (gor) or glutathione biosynthesis (gshA) cannot grow. Growth of Deltagor DeltatrxB strains is restored by a mutant (ahpC*) of the peroxiredoxin AhpC, converting it to a disulfide reductase that generates reduced glutathione. Here, we show that ahpC* also restores growth to a DeltagshB DeltatrxB strain, which lacks glutathione and accumulates only its precursor gamma-glutamylcysteine (gamma-GC). It suppresses this strain by allowing accumulation of reduced gamma-GC, which can substitute for glutathione. Surprisingly, new ahpC suppressor mutations arose in a DeltagshA DeltatrxB strain lacking both glutathione and gamma-GC, a strain that ahpC* does not suppress. Some of these mutant AhpC proteins channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways via either the thioredoxins or the glutaredoxins without, evidently, the intermediary of glutathione. Our results provide insights into the physiological functioning of the glutathione pathway and reveal surprising plasticity of a peroxidase because different mutant versions of AhpC can channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways by at least four distinct routes. Despite the reductase activity of mutant AhpCs, these various suppressor strains exhibit an oxidizing cytoplasm and accumulate correctly folded disulfide-bonded proteins in their cytoplasm. Proteins most effectively oxidized vary between strains, potentially providing useful tools for expressing different disulfide-bonded proteins.
AbstractList In Escherichia coli, the glutathione/glutaredoxin and thioredoxin pathways are essential for the reduction of cytoplasmic protein disulfide bonds, including those formed in the essential enzyme ribonucleotide reductase during its action on substrates. Double mutants lacking thioredoxin reductase (trxB) and glutathione reductase (gor) or glutathione biosynthesis (gshA) cannot grow. Growth of Deltagor DeltatrxB strains is restored by a mutant (ahpC*) of the peroxiredoxin AhpC, converting it to a disulfide reductase that generates reduced glutathione. Here, we show that ahpC* also restores growth to a DeltagshB DeltatrxB strain, which lacks glutathione and accumulates only its precursor gamma-glutamylcysteine (gamma-GC). It suppresses this strain by allowing accumulation of reduced gamma-GC, which can substitute for glutathione. Surprisingly, new ahpC suppressor mutations arose in a DeltagshA DeltatrxB strain lacking both glutathione and gamma-GC, a strain that ahpC* does not suppress. Some of these mutant AhpC proteins channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways via either the thioredoxins or the glutaredoxins without, evidently, the intermediary of glutathione. Our results provide insights into the physiological functioning of the glutathione pathway and reveal surprising plasticity of a peroxidase because different mutant versions of AhpC can channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways by at least four distinct routes. Despite the reductase activity of mutant AhpCs, these various suppressor strains exhibit an oxidizing cytoplasm and accumulate correctly folded disulfide-bonded proteins in their cytoplasm. Proteins most effectively oxidized vary between strains, potentially providing useful tools for expressing different disulfide-bonded proteins.
In Escherichia coli, the glutathione/glutaredoxin and thioredoxin pathways are essential for the reduction of cytoplasmic protein disulfide bonds, including those formed in the essential enzyme ribonucleotide reductase during its action on substrates. Double mutants lacking thioredoxin reductase (trxB) and glutathione reductase (gor) or glutathione biosynthesis (gshA) cannot grow. Growth of Deltagor DeltatrxB strains is restored by a mutant (ahpC*) of the peroxiredoxin AhpC, converting it to a disulfide reductase that generates reduced glutathione. Here, we show that ahpC* also restores growth to a DeltagshB DeltatrxB strain, which lacks glutathione and accumulates only its precursor gamma-glutamylcysteine (gamma-GC). It suppresses this strain by allowing accumulation of reduced gamma-GC, which can substitute for glutathione. Surprisingly, new ahpC suppressor mutations arose in a DeltagshA DeltatrxB strain lacking both glutathione and gamma-GC, a strain that ahpC* does not suppress. Some of these mutant AhpC proteins channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways via either the thioredoxins or the glutaredoxins without, evidently, the intermediary of glutathione. Our results provide insights into the physiological functioning of the glutathione pathway and reveal surprising plasticity of a peroxidase because different mutant versions of AhpC can channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways by at least four distinct routes. Despite the reductase activity of mutant AhpCs, these various suppressor strains exhibit an oxidizing cytoplasm and accumulate correctly folded disulfide-bonded proteins in their cytoplasm. Proteins most effectively oxidized vary between strains, potentially providing useful tools for expressing different disulfide-bonded proteins.In Escherichia coli, the glutathione/glutaredoxin and thioredoxin pathways are essential for the reduction of cytoplasmic protein disulfide bonds, including those formed in the essential enzyme ribonucleotide reductase during its action on substrates. Double mutants lacking thioredoxin reductase (trxB) and glutathione reductase (gor) or glutathione biosynthesis (gshA) cannot grow. Growth of Deltagor DeltatrxB strains is restored by a mutant (ahpC*) of the peroxiredoxin AhpC, converting it to a disulfide reductase that generates reduced glutathione. Here, we show that ahpC* also restores growth to a DeltagshB DeltatrxB strain, which lacks glutathione and accumulates only its precursor gamma-glutamylcysteine (gamma-GC). It suppresses this strain by allowing accumulation of reduced gamma-GC, which can substitute for glutathione. Surprisingly, new ahpC suppressor mutations arose in a DeltagshA DeltatrxB strain lacking both glutathione and gamma-GC, a strain that ahpC* does not suppress. Some of these mutant AhpC proteins channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways via either the thioredoxins or the glutaredoxins without, evidently, the intermediary of glutathione. Our results provide insights into the physiological functioning of the glutathione pathway and reveal surprising plasticity of a peroxidase because different mutant versions of AhpC can channel electrons into the disulfide-reducing pathways by at least four distinct routes. Despite the reductase activity of mutant AhpCs, these various suppressor strains exhibit an oxidizing cytoplasm and accumulate correctly folded disulfide-bonded proteins in their cytoplasm. Proteins most effectively oxidized vary between strains, potentially providing useful tools for expressing different disulfide-bonded proteins.
Author Gon, Stéphanie
Georgiou, George
Faulkner, Melinda J
Veeravalli, Karthik
Beckwith, Jon
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SubjectTerms Alkaline Phosphatase - metabolism
Biological Evolution
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Cysteine - metabolism
Cytoplasm - enzymology
Dipeptides - analysis
Disulfides - metabolism
Escherichia coli - enzymology
Escherichia coli Proteins - metabolism
Glutaredoxins - metabolism
Kinetics
Mutation - genetics
NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases - metabolism
Oxidation-Reduction
Peroxidase - metabolism
Suppression, Genetic
Thioredoxins - metabolism
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