Korean Journal of Microbiology (미생물학회지)

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The Functions of the Riboflavin Genes in the lux Operon from Photobacterium Species

Photobacterium Species의 lux 오페론에서 발견된 Riboflavin 생합성 유전자들의 기능

  • 이찬용 (을지의과대학교 자연과학교실) ;
  • 임종호 (을지의과대학교 약리학교실)
  • Published : 2002.09.01
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Abstract

The functions of riboflavin synthesis genes ( ribI,II,III and IV) found immediately downstream of luxG in the lux operon from Photobacterium species were identified using the biochemical and genetical analysis. The ribI-III gene codes for protein corresponding to that coded by the second (riboflavin synthase), third (3,4-dihydroxy 2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase/GTP cyclohydrolase II) and fourth (lumazine synthase) gene, respectively, of Bacillus subtilis rib operon with the respective gene procuct sharing 41-50% amino acid sequence identity. Unexpectedly, the sequence of the ribIV product of Photobacterium phosphoreum does not correspond in sequence to the protein encoded by the fifth rib gene of Bacillus subtilis. Instead the gene (ribIV) codes for a polypeptide similar in sequence to GTP cyclohydrolase II of Escherichia coli and the carboxy terminal domain of the third rib gene from Bacillus subtilis. Complementation of Escherichia coli riboflavin auxotrophs showed that the function of the gene products of ribII and ribIV are DHBP synthase and GTP cyclohydrolase II, respectively. In addition the experiment, showing that increase in thermal stability of riboflavin synthase coded by ribIon coexpression with ribIII, provided indirect evidence that the latter gene codes for lumazine synthase.

발광 박테리아인 Photobacterium species의 lux 오페론에서 발견된 riboflavin 생합성에 관여하는 유전자들(ribI,II,III,IV)의 기능을 조사하였다. 대장균에서 이들 유전자가 포함된 재조합 플라스미드를 발현시켰을 때 상당량의riboflavin이 합성되는 것을 확인하였으며, 또한 이들 유전자들(ribI,II,III,IV)의 기능을 riboflavin에 대하여 종속 영양체인 대장균 돌연변이주(BSV 11,18)를 이용한 유전학적인 방법과 생화학적 방법으로 분석한 결과, 이들은 각각 riboflavin synthase, 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate (DHBP) synthase, lumazine synthase, GTP cyclohydrolase II활성도를 갖는 단백질을 코드하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 이는Photobacterium species의 riboflavin 유전자 체계가 riboflavin 생합성에 관여하는 모든 5개의 유전자들이 한 오페론에 존재하는 Bacillus subtilis와 주요 riboflavin 유전자들이 분리되어 있는 대장균과는 다른, 중간적인 형태를 갖는다는 것을 나타낸다.

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