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J. Bacteriol., 08 1995, 4757-4764, Vol 177, No. 16
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Purification, characterization, and metabolic function of tungsten- containing aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase from the hyperthermophilic and proteolytic archaeon Thermococcus strain ES-1

J Heider, K Ma and MW Adams
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602, USA.

Thermococcus strain ES-1 is a strictly anaerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon that grows at temperatures up to 91 degrees C by the fermentation of peptides. It is obligately dependent upon elemental sulfur (S(o)) for growth, which it reduces to H2S. Cell extracts contain high aldehyde oxidation activity with viologen dyes as electron acceptors. The enzyme responsible, which we term aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase (AOR), has been purified to electrophoretic homogeneity. AOR is a homodimeric protein with a subunit M(r) of approximately 67,000. It contains molybdopterin and one W, four to five Fe, one Mg, and two P atoms per subunit. Electron paramagnetic resonance analyses of the reduced enzyme indicated the presence of a single [4Fe-4S]+ cluster with an S = 3/2 ground state. While AOR oxidized a wide range of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes, those with the highest apparent kcat/Km values (> 10 microM-1S-1) were acetaldehyde, isovalerylaldehyde, and phenylacetaldehyde (Km values of < 100 microM). The apparent Km value for Thermococcus strain ES-1 ferredoxin was 10 microM (with crotonaldehyde as the substrate). Thermococcus strain ES-1 AOR also catalyzed the reduction of acetate (apparent Km of 1.8 mM) below pH 6.0 (with reduced methyl viologen as the electron donor) but at much less than 1% of the rate of the oxidative reaction (with benzyl viologen as the electron acceptor at pH 6.0 to 10.0).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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