Sulfide-quinone reductase from Rhodobacter capsulatus. Purification, cloning, and expression

Michael Schütz, Yosepha Shahak, Etana Padan, Günter Hauska*

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Abstract

A sulfide-quinone oxidoreductase (SQR, EC 1.8.5.'.) has been purified to homogeneity from chromatophores of the non-sulfur purple bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus DSM 155. It is composed of a single polypeptide with an apparent molecular mass of about 55 kDa, exhibiting absorption and fluorescence spectra typical for a flavoprotein and similar to the SQR from the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica. From N-terminal and tryptic peptide sequences of the pure protein a genomic DNA clone was obtained by polymerase chain reaction amplification. Its sequence contains an open reading frame of 1275 base pairs (EMBL nucleotide sequence data base, accession no. X97478) encoding the SQR of R. capsulatus. The deduced polypeptide consists of 425 amino acid residues with a molecular mass of 47 kDa and a net charge of +9. The high similarity (72%)/identity (48%) between the N termini of the cyanobacterial and the bacterial enzyme was confirmed and extended. Both enzymes exhibit the FAD/NAD(P) binding βαβ-fold (Wierenga, R. K., Terpstra, P., and Hol, W. G. S. (1986) J. Mol. Biol. 187, 101-107). The complete sequence of the SQR from R. capsulatus shows further similarity to flavoproteins, in particular glutathione reductase and lipoamide dehydrogenase. The cloned sqr was expressed in Escherichia coli in a functional form.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9890-9894
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry
Volume272
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Apr 1997

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