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Journal of Bacteriology, June 2008, p. 3923-3929, Vol. 190, No. 11
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00082-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Specific Partial Reduction of Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate by an Enzyme from the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Yields a Reactive Prenyl Donor, Not a Dead-End Product {triangledown}

Sho Sato,{dagger} Motomichi Murakami,{dagger} Tohru Yoshimura, and Hisashi Hemmi*

Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan

Received 17 January 2008/ Accepted 16 March 2008

Geranylgeranyl reductase from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius was shown to catalyze the reduction of geranylgeranyl groups in the precursors of archaeal membrane lipids, generally reducing all four double bonds. However, when geranylgeranyl diphosphate was subjected to the reductase reaction, only three of the four double bonds were reduced. Mass spectrometry and acid hydrolysis indicated that the allylic double bond was preserved in the partially reduced product derived from geranylgeranyl diphosphate. Thus, the reaction product was shown to be phytyl diphosphate, which is a substrate for archaeal prenyltransferases, unlike the completely reduced compound phytanyl diphosphate.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan. Phone: 81-52-789-4134. Fax: 81-52-789-4120. E-mail: hhemmi{at}agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 28 March 2008.

{dagger} S.S. and M.M. contributed equally to this work.

Journal of Bacteriology, June 2008, p. 3923-3929, Vol. 190, No. 11
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00082-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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