Genetic and sequence analysis of an 8.7-kilobase Pseudomonas denitrificans fragment carrying eight genes involved in transformation of precorrin-2 to cobyrinic acid

Author:

Crouzet J1,Cameron B1,Cauchois L1,Rigault S1,Rouyez M C1,Blanche F1,Thibaut D1,Debussche L1

Affiliation:

1. Institut des Biotechnologies, Rhône-Poulenc Santé, Centre de Recherche de Vitry, France.

Abstract

A 8.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes has been sequenced. The nucleotide sequence and the genetic analysis revealed that this fragment carries eight different cob genes (cobF to cobM). Six of these genes have the characteristics of translationally coupled genes. cobI has been identified as S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM):precorrin-2 methyltransferase structural gene because the encoded protein has the same NH2 terminus and molecular weight as those of the purified enzyme. From protein homology with CobA and CobI, two SAM-dependent methyltransferases of the cobalamin pathway, it is proposed that cobF, cobJ, cobL, and cobM code for other methyltransferases involved in the cobalamin pathway. In addition, purified CobF protein has affinity for SAM, as expected for a SAM-dependent methyltransferase. Accumulation of cobalamin precursors in Agrobacterium tumefaciens mutants complemented by any of these eight genes suggest that, apart from cobI, whose function is identified, the products of all these genes are implicated in the conversion of precorrin-3 into cobyrinic acid.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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