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J Bacteriol. 1994 November; 176(21): 6663-6671

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Bacillus subtilis CtaA is a heme-containing membrane protein involved in heme A biosynthesis.

B Svensson and L Hederstedt

Department of Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden.

ABSTRACT

Heme A is a prosthetic group of many respiratory oxidases. It is synthesized from protoheme IX (heme B) seemingly with heme O as a stable intermediate. The Bacillus subtilis ctaA and ctaB genes are required for heme A and heme O synthesis, respectively (B. Svensson, M. Lübben, and L. Hederstedt, Mol. Microbiol. 10:193-201, 1993). Tentatively, CtaA is involved in the monooxygenation and oxidation of the methyl side group on porphyrin ring D in heme A synthesis from heme B. B. subtilis ctaA and ctaB on plasmids in both B. subtilis and Escherichia coli were found to result in a novel membrane-bound heme-containing protein with the characteristics of a low-spin b-type cytochrome. It can be reduced via the respiratory chain, and in the reduced state it shows light absorption maxima at 428, 528, and 558 nm and the alpha-band is split. Purified cytochrome isolated from both B. subtilis and E. coli membranes contained one polypeptide identified as CtaA by amino acid sequence analysis, about 0.2 mol of heme B per mol of polypeptide, and small amounts of heme A.

J Bacteriol. 1994 November; 176(21): 6663-6671




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