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The bile acid-inducible baiB gene from Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 encodes a bile acid-coenzyme A ligase.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0678.

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The baiB gene from Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 was previously cloned, sequenced, and shown to be part of a large bile acid-inducible operon encoding polypeptides believed to be involved in bile acid 7 alpha-dehydroxylation. In the present study, the baiB gene was subcloned and expressed in Escherichia coli and shown to encode a bile acid-coenzyme A (CoA) ligase. This ligase required a C-24 bile acid with a free carboxyl group, ATP, Mg2+, and CoA for synthesis of the final bile acid-CoA conjugate. Product analysis by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography revealed final reaction products that comigrated with cholyl-CoA and AMP. A putative bile acid-AMP intermediate was detected when CoA was omitted from the reaction mixture. The bile acid-CoA ligase has amino acid sequence similarity to several other polypeptides involved in the ATP-dependent linking of AMP or CoA to cyclic carboxylated compounds. The bile acid-CoA ligation is believed to be the initial step in the bile acid 7 alpha-dehydroxylation pathway in Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708.

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