title: Cloning, sequencing, and overexpression of the genes encoding coenzyme B12-dependent glycerol dehydratase of Citrobacter freundii.
abstract: The genes encoding coenzyme B12-dependent glycerol dehydratase of Citrobacter freundii were cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The B12-free enzyme was purified to homogeneity. It consists of three types of subunits whose N-terminal sequences are in accordance with those deduced from the open reading frames dhaB, dhaC, and dhaE, coding for subunits of 60,433 (alpha), 21,487 (beta), and 16,121 (gamma) Da, respectively. The enzyme complex has the composition alpha2beta2gamma2. Amino acid alignments with the subunits of the recently sequenced diol dehydratase of Klebsiella oxytoca (T. Tobimatsu, T. Hara, M. Sakaguchi, Y. Kishimoto, Y. Wada, M. Isoda, T. Sakai, and T. Toraya, J. Biol. Chem. 270:7142-7148, 1995) revealed identities between 51.8 and 70.9%.
authors.affiliation: Institut fur Mikrobiologie der Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seyfried
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gottschalk
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D016971:Citrobacter freundii / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003038:Cobamides / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006836:Hydro-Lyases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003038:Cobamides; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D006836:Hydro-Lyases; C020671:glycerol dehydratase