Purification and characterization of ferric reductases from
Paracoccus denitrificans

D 2002

Purification and characterization of ferric reductases from Paracoccus denitrificans

TESAŘÍK, Radek, Jiří MAZOCH, Jaroslav TURÁNEK and Igor KUČERA

Basic information

Original name

Purification and characterization of ferric reductases from Paracoccus denitrificans

Authors

TESAŘÍK, Radek (203 Czech Republic), Jiří MAZOCH (203 Czech Republic), Jaroslav TURÁNEK (203 Czech Republic) and Igor KUČERA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Bratislava, XVIII. BIOCHEMICKÝ ZJAZD, p. 150-150, 2002

Publisher

Slovenská spoločnosť pre biochémiu a molekulárnu biológiu pri SAV

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/02:00006390

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

ferric reductase; Paracoccus denitrificans; purification

Abstract

V originále

Iron is a component of a number of biological systems, e.g. electron transport chains, cofactors of enzymes, regulatory proteins etc. It occurs in ferric form in environment, while organisms require ferrous iron. Enzymes catalysing the reduction of ferric complexes are widely spread within bacterial kingdom. Some of these enzymes are associated with cytoplasmic membrane, some are present in soluble form in cytoplasm or periplasm, some are excreted into extracellular medium. In our work, cellular fractions of Paracoccus denitrificans were tested for their activity towards reduction of various ferric complexes with NADH as an electron donor. We found the most of the ferric reductase activity in cytosolic fraction. Fe(III)-nitrilotriacetate was chosen as the best artificial substrate for activity measurements. Two proteins responsible for the activity was identified. Both enzymes were purified to homogeneity by combination of FPLC ion-exchange chromatography and chromatofocusing, and characterised with respect to kinetics of enzyme reaction. One of these enzymes (denoted FerB) does not need FMN or other flavins for its catalytic function. It differs in this aspect from other known ferric reductases which are considered to be in fact flavin reductases (Fontecave et al., 1994). Both NADH and NADPH serve as electron donors for FerB whereas FerA uses NADH exclusively. Mr of native enzymes were estimated (GPC) to be about 25 kDa and 55 kDa for FerA (pI 6.9) and FerB (pI 5.5), respectively. N-terminal sequences of FerA, FerB were determined and database searches revealed that the sequence of FerB is homologous to chromate reductase of Pseudomonas putida. Indeed, FerB has chromate reductase activity.

Links

GA203/01/1589, research and development project

Name: Mechanizmy regulace respiračních systémů denitrifikačních bakterií faktory prostředí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Mechanisms involved in regulation of respiratory systems in denitrification bacteria by environmental factors

Citovat

TESAŘÍK, Radek, Jiří MAZOCH, Jaroslav TURÁNEK and Igor KUČERA. Purification and characterization of ferric reductases from Paracoccus denitrificans. In XVIII. BIOCHEMICKÝ ZJAZD. Bratislava: Slovenská spoločnosť pre biochémiu a molekulárnu biológiu pri SAV, 2002, p. 150.

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TESAŘÍK, Radek, Jiří MAZOCH, Jaroslav TURÁNEK and Igor KUČERA. Purification and characterization of ferric reductases from Paracoccus denitrificans. In \textit{XVIII. BIOCHEMICKÝ ZJAZD}. Bratislava: Slovenská spoločnosť pre biochémiu a molekulárnu biológiu pri SAV, 2002, p.~150.

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