title: Polyhydroxynaphthalene reductase involved in melanin biosynthesis in Magnaporthe grisea. Purification, cDNA cloning and sequencing.
abstract: During the biosynthesis of fungal melanin, tetrahydroxynaphthalene reductase catalyzes the NADPH-dependent reduction of 1,3,6,8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene (T4HN) into (+)-scytalone and 1,3,8-trihydroxynaphthalene into (-)-vermelone. The enzyme from Magnaporthe grisea, the fungus responsible for rice blast disease, has been purified to homogeneity. It is a tetramer of four identical 30-kDa subunits. A full-length cDNA clone of about 1 kb encoding T4HN reductase has been isolated from a cDNA library constructed in the lambda ZAP II vector and characterized. The clone contains a 846-bp open reading frame. Translation of the DNA sequence gave a 282-residue amino acid sequence with a calculated molecular mass of 29.9 kDa. Sequences corresponding to the amino-terminal part and three internal proteolytic peptides were present in the translated sequence. T4HN reductase exhibits characteristics of the short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase family. The reductase shares 56% identity with a putative ketoreductase involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus parasiticus.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Biologique, URA CNRS 493, Paris, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vidal-Cros
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Viviani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Labesse
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boccara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaudry
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001203:Ascomycota / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003470:Culture Media; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008543:Melanins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D044925:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008543:Melanins; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C086024:tetrahydroxynaphthalene reductase; D044925:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors