title: Crystalline green 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA dehydratase from Clostridium aminovalericum.
abstract: A green enzyme from Clostridium aminovalericum with valeryl-CoA dehydrogenase activity was purified to homogeneity (169 +/- 3 kDa) and crystallized. By SDS/PAGE, one type of subunit (42 kDa) was detected indicating a homotetrameric structure. The unusual ultraviolet/visible spectrum of the green enzyme (maxima at 394 nm, 438 nm and 715 nm) was converted to a normal flavoprotein spectrum either by reduction with dithionite and reoxidation under air, or by removal of the prosthetic group at pH 2 and reconstitution with FAD (not FMN). Besides FAD (4 mol/169 kDa), the enzyme contained 4 mol of a CoA ester which was similar but not identical to 5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA. The reconstituted holoenzyme as well as the native green enzyme, but not the apoenzyme, catalysed the reversible dehydration of 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA to 4-pentenoyl-CoA in the absence of an external electron acceptor. In its presence (preferentially ferricenium ion), the green or yellow enzyme catalysed the formation of (E)-5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA and 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA either from 4-pentenoyl-CoA or from 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA. The reversible hydration of 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA to (E)-5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA was mediated by both enzymes as well as by the apoenzyme in the absence of FAD. Hydration of 4-pentenoate in 2H2O yielded optically active 5-hydroxy[2,4-2H2]valerate by the combined action of 5-hydroxyvalerate CoA-transferase, the green dehydratase and catalytical amounts of acetyl-CoA. The data show that the reversible hydration of the isolated double bond of 4-pentenoyl-CoA to 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA. which apparently violates the Markovnikov rule, is preceded by oxidation to 2,4-pentadienoyl-CoA. The latter compound, a vinyl analogue of 2-enoyl-CoA, is then easily hydrated to (E)-5-hydroxy-2-pentenoyl-CoA and finally reduced to 5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorium für Mikrobiologie, Fachbereich Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Eikmanns
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Buckel
mesh_terms: D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism; D042964:Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase; D003013:Clostridium / Q000201:enzymology*; D003460:Crystallization; D003653:Decarboxylation; D044943:Fatty Acid Desaturases / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006836:Hydro-Lyases / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A; D044943:Fatty Acid Desaturases; D042964:Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase; C068850:5-hydroxyvaleryl-CoA dehydratase; D006836:Hydro-Lyases