Affiliation:
1. 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.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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