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Purification and primary structure of pyruvate decarboxylase from Zymomonas mobilis
Author(s) -
Miczka G.,
Vernau J.,
Kula MR,
Hofmann B.,
Schomburg D.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
biotechnology and applied biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.468
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1470-8744
pISSN - 0885-4513
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-8744.1992.tb00204.x
Subject(s) - zymomonas mobilis , pyruvate decarboxylase , tetramer , protein primary structure , biochemistry , chemistry , dna , stereochemistry , enzyme , peptide sequence , biology , gene , ethanol , ethanol fuel , alcohol dehydrogenase
Pyruvate decarboxylase (E.C. 4.1.1.1), the key enzyme in the glycolytic pathway to ethanol, was isolated in gram amounts from Zymomonas mobilis for structural studies. The primary structure was determined by automated Edman degradation and compared with that deduced from the DNA sequence of the structural gene, previously published by two groups (A. D. Neale, R. K. Scopes, R. E. H. Wettenhall, and N. J. Hoogenraad, 1987, Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 1753–1761; M. Reynen, and H. Sahm, 1988, J. Bacteriol. 170, 3310–3313). The peptide data differ from the published DNA sequences, which also deviate from each other. Crystals diffracting to about 0.3 nm resolution have been obtained by the hanging drop vapor diffusion method. The space group was identified as P4(1)22 or its enantiomorphs containing presumably one tetramer per asymmetric unit.