Publications

• ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transport system solute-binding protein-guided identification of novel D-altritol and galactitol catabolic pathways in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58.

  Wichelecki D.J., Vetting M.W., Chou L., Al-Obaidi N., Bouvier J.T., Almo S.C., Gerlt J.A.

  Innovations in the discovery of the functions of uncharacterized proteins/enzymes have become increasingly important as advances in sequencing technology flood protein databases with an exponentially growing number of open reading frames. This study documents one such innovation developed by the E ... >> More

  Innovations in the discovery of the functions of uncharacterized proteins/enzymes have become increasingly important as advances in sequencing technology flood protein databases with an exponentially growing number of open reading frames. This study documents one such innovation developed by the Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI; U54GM093342), the use of solute-binding proteins for transport systems to identify novel metabolic pathways. In a previous study, this strategy was applied to the tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporters. Here, we apply this strategy to the ATP-binding cassette transporters and report the discovery of novel catabolic pathways for d-altritol and galactitol in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58. These efforts resulted in the description of three novel enzymatic reactions as follows: 1) oxidation of d-altritol to d-tagatose via a dehydrogenase in Pfam family PF00107, a previously unknown reaction; 2) phosphorylation of d-tagatose to d-tagatose 6-phosphate via a kinase in Pfam family PF00294, a previously orphan EC number; and 3) epimerization of d-tagatose 6-phosphate C-4 to d-fructose 6-phosphate via a member of Pfam family PF08013, another previously unknown reaction. The epimerization reaction catalyzed by a member of PF08013 is especially noteworthy, because the functions of members of PF08013 have been unknown. These discoveries were assisted by the following two synergistic bioinformatics web tools made available by the Enzyme Function Initiative: the EFI-Enzyme Similarity Tool and the EFI-Genome Neighborhood Tool. << Less

  J. Biol. Chem. 290:28963-28976(2015) [PubMed] [EuropePMC]

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• A novel enzyme, tagatose kinase, from Mycobacterium butyricum.

  Szumioo T.

  A novel enzyme catalyzing the phosphorylation of D-tagatose to D-tagatose 6-phosphate with ATP has been identified in extracts of dulcitol-grown Mycobacterium butyricum. The enzyme was purified 100-fold with 29% recovery. It required Mg2+, Mn2+ or Fe2+ and showed maximum activity at pH 7.5. The mo ... >> More

  A novel enzyme catalyzing the phosphorylation of D-tagatose to D-tagatose 6-phosphate with ATP has been identified in extracts of dulcitol-grown Mycobacterium butyricum. The enzyme was purified 100-fold with 29% recovery. It required Mg2+, Mn2+ or Fe2+ and showed maximum activity at pH 7.5. The molecular weight as determined by Sephadex G-100 filtration amounted to 63 000. The apparent Michaelis constants for D-tagatose and ATP were 0.8 and 1.0 mM, respectively. The enzyme preparations were not very sensitive to SH group inhibitors and heavy metals but rapidly lost activity on heating above 50 degrees C. << Less

  Biochim Biophys Acta 660:366-370(1981) [PubMed] [EuropePMC]