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Journal of Bacteriology, September 1999, p. 5750-5757, Vol. 181, No. 18
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Distribution of Tetrahydromethanopterin-Dependent Enzymes in Methylotrophic Bacteria and Phylogeny of Methenyl Tetrahydromethanopterin Cyclohydrolases

Julia A. Vorholt,1,2 Ludmila Chistoserdova,1 Sergei M. Stolyar,1 Rudolf K. Thauer,2 and Mary E. Lidstrom1,*

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195,1 and Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie and Laboratorium für Mikrobiologie des Fachbereichs Biologie der Philipps-Universität, 35043 Marburg, Germany2

Received 24 March 1999/Accepted 7 July 1999

The methylotrophic proteobacterium Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 possesses tetrahydromethanopterin (H4MPT)-dependent enzymes, which are otherwise specific to methanogenic and sulfate-reducing archaea and which have been suggested to be involved in formaldehyde oxidation to CO2 in M. extorquens AM1. The distribution of H4MPT-dependent enzyme activities in cell extracts of methylotrophic bacteria from 13 different genera are reported. H4MPT-dependent activities were detected in all of the methylotrophic and methanotrophic proteobacteria tested that assimilate formaldehyde by the serine or ribulose monophosphate pathway. H4MPT-dependent activities were also found in autotrophic Xanthobacter strains. However, no H4MPT-dependent enzyme activities could be detected in other autotrophic alpha -proteobacteria or in gram-positive methylotrophic bacteria. Genes encoding methenyl H4MPT cyclohydrolase (mch genes) were cloned and sequenced from several proteobacteria. Bacterial and archaeal Mch sequences have roughly 35% amino acid identity and form distinct groups in phylogenetic analysis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. Phone: (206) 616-5282. Fax: (206) 616-5721. E-mail: lidstrom{at}u.washington.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 1999, p. 5750-5757, Vol. 181, No. 18
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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