title: Evidence for intersubunit communication during acetyl-CoA cleavage by the multienzyme CO dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase complex from Methanosarcina thermophila. Evidence that the beta subunit catalyzes C-C and C-S bond cleavage.
abstract: The carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase (CODH/ACS) from Methanosarcina thermophila is part of a five-subunit complex consisting of alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon subunits. The multienzyme complex catalyzes the reversible oxidation of CO to CO(2), transfer of the methyl group of acetyl-CoA to tetrahydromethanopterin (H(4)MPT), and acetyl-CoA synthesis from CO, CoA, and methyl-H(4)MPT. The alpha and epsilon subunits are required for CO oxidation. The gamma and delta subunits constitute a corrinoid iron-sulfur protein that is involved in the transmethylation reaction. This work focuses on the beta subunit. The isolated beta subunit contains significant amounts of nickel. When proteases truncate the beta subunit, causing the CODH/ACS complex to dissociate, the amount of intact beta subunit correlates directly with the EPR signal intensity of Cluster A and the activity of the CO/acetyl-CoA exchange reaction. Our results strongly indicate that the beta subunit harbors Cluster A, a NiFeS cluster, that is the active site of acetyl-CoA cleavage and assembly. Although the beta subunit is necessary, it is not sufficient for acetyl-CoA synthesis; interactions between the CODH and the ACS subunits are required for cleavage or synthesis of the C-C bond of acetyl-CoA. We propose that these interactions include intramolecular electron transfer reactions between the CODH and ACS subunits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Beadle Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0664, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Ragsdale
mesh_terms: D000106:Acetate-CoA Ligase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism*; D000445:Aldehyde Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism; D002384:Catalysis; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D017020:Methanosarcina / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009532:Nickel / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A; D002244:Carbon; D009532:Nickel; D007501:Iron; D000445:Aldehyde Oxidoreductases; C019823:carbon monoxide dehydrogenase; D000106:Acetate-CoA Ligase