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Nucleotide sequence of the dmsABC operon encoding the anaerobic dimethylsulphoxide reductase of Escherichia coli
Author(s) -
Bilous P. T.,
Cole S. T.,
Anderson W. F.,
Weiner J. H.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
molecular microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 247
eISSN - 1365-2958
pISSN - 0950-382X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1988.tb00090.x
Subject(s) - operon , biology , biochemistry , amino acid , peptide sequence , escherichia coli , nucleic acid sequence , fumarate reductase , protein subunit , reductase , formate dehydrogenase , enzyme , microbiology and biotechnology , dna , gene , cofactor
Summary The nucleotide sequence of a 6.5 kilobasepair chromosomal DNA fragment encoding the anaerobic dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) reductase operon of Escherichia coli has been determined. The DMSO reductase structural operon was shown to consist of three open reading frames, namely dmsABC , encoding polypeptides with predicted molecular weights of 87350, 23070, and 30789 Daltons, respectively. The DMS A polypeptide displayed a high degree of amino acid sequence homology with the single‐subunit enzyme, biotin sulphoxide reductase ( bisC ) and with formate dehydrogenase ( fdhF ), suggesting that the active site and molybdopterin cofactor binding site that is common to these enzymes is located in the DMS A subunit. A comparison of the predicted N ‐terminal amino acids of the dmsA gene product to those of the 82600 subunit of purified DMSO reductase indicated that post‐translational processing of a 16 amino acid peptide at the amino terminus of DMS A had occurred. The DMS B polypeptide contains 16 cysteine residues organized in four clusters, two of which are typical of 4Fe–4S binding domains. The DMS C polypeptide is composed of eight segments of hydrophobic amino acids of appropriate length to cross the cytoplasmic membrane, suggesting that this subunit functions to anchor the enzyme to the membrane.