Canniffe, Daniel P 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5022-0437 and Hunter, C Neil
(2014)
Engineered biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophyll b in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1837 (10).
pp. 1611-1616.
Abstract
Bacteriochlorophyll b has the most red-shifted absorbance maximum of all naturally occurring photopigments. It has a characteristic ethylidene group at the C8 position in place of the more common ethyl group, the product of a C8-vinyl reductase, which is carried by the majority of chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls used in photosynthesis. The subsequent and first step exclusive to bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis, the reduction of the C7 = C8 bond, is catalyzed by chlorophyllide oxidoreductase. It has been demonstrated that the enzyme from bacteriochlorophyll a-utilizing bacteria can catalyze the formation of compounds carrying an ethyl group at C8 from both ethyl- and vinyl-carrying substrates, indicating a surprising additional C8-vinyl reductase function, while the enzyme from organisms producing BChl b could only catalyze C7 = C8 reduction with a vinyl substrate, but this product carried an ethylidene group at the C8 position. We have replaced the native chlorophyllide oxidoreductase-encoding genes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with those from Blastochloris viridis, but the switch from bacteriochlorophyll a to b biosynthesis is only detected when the native conventional C8-vinyl reductase is absent. We propose a non-enzymatic mechanism for ethylidene group formation based on the absence of cellular C8-vinyl reductase activity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bacteriochlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyllide oxidoreductase, Photosynthesis, Pathway engineering |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2019 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 01:06 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.07.011 |
| Open Access URL: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC43310... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3031336 |
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