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- Title
Dimethylsulfide:acceptor oxidoreductase from Rhodobacter sulfidophilus. The purified enzyme contains b-type haem and a pterin molybdenum cofactor.
- Authors
Hanlon, S P; Toh, T H; Solomon, P S; Holt, R A; McEwan, A G
- Abstract
Dimethylsulfide:receptor oxidoreductase was purified from the purple non-sulfur phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sulfidophilus. The native form of the enzyme had a molecular mass of 152 kDa and was composed of three distinct subunits of 94, 38 and 32 kDa. Dimethylsulfide:acceptor oxidoreductase did not oxidise other thioethers which were tested. The enzyme was able to reduce a variety of N-oxides using reduced methylviologen as electron donor but it reduced dimethylsulfoxide at a very low rate. The resting form of dimethylsulfide:acceptor oxidoreductase exhibited a spectrum which was characteristic of a reduced cytochrome with absorbance maxima at 562 nm, 533 nm and 428 nm. Pyridine haemochrome analysis established that the cytochrome contained a b-type haem and a content of 0.65 mol protohaem/mol enzyme was determined. After oxidation of the haem with ferricyanide, the absorbance spectrum of the reduced cytochrome was restored by reduction with dimethylsulfide. Metal analysis revealed that dimethylsulfide:acceptor oxidoreductase contained 0.5 mol Mo and 3.5 mol Fe/mol enzyme. Heat treatment of the enzyme released material with fluorescence excitation and emission spectra which were characteristic of form B of the pterin component of the pterin molybdenum cofactor. From this analysis it is concluded that dimethylsulfide:acceptor oxidoreductase is a molybdenum oxotransferase which may also contain a iron-sulfur cluster. It is suggested that the haem and pterin molybdenum cofactor are associated with the 94-kDa subunit.
- Publication
European journal of biochemistry, 1996, Vol 239, Issue 2, p391
- ISSN
0014-2956
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0391u.x