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Citrate lyases of lactic acid bacteria
1998
Citrate Iyase is a key enzyme of the citrate metabolism which is involved in flavor and texture of many fermented milk products. Citrate Iyase which catalyses the cleavage of citrate into oxaloacetate and acetate is a multienzyme complex composed of three proteins: an acyl carrier protein (ACP); a citrate, acetate-ACP transferase; and a citryl-S-ACP Iyase. The citrate Iyase is active only when the thioester residue of the prosthetic group bound to ACP is acetylated. In the presence of citrate, the transferase mediates the formation of citryl-S-acyl carrier protein by acyl exchange and liberation of acetate. Then the Iyase subunit cleaves the citryl-S-ACP with libe- ration of oxaloacetate an…
Purification of Leuconostoc mesenteroides citrate lyase and cloning and characterization of the citCDEFG gene cluster
1998
ABSTRACT A citrate lyase (EC 4.1.3.6 ) was purified 25-fold from Leuconostoc mesenteroides and was shown to contain three subunits. The first 42 amino acids of the β subunit were identified, as well as an internal peptide sequence spanning some 20 amino acids into the α subunit. Using degenerated primers from these sequences, we amplified a 1.2-kb DNA fragment by PCR from Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. cremoris . This fragment was used as a probe for screening a Leuconostoc genomic bank to identify the structural genes. The 2.7-kb gene cluster encoding citrate lyase of L. mesenteroides is organized in three open reading frames, citD , citE , and citF , encoding, respectively, the three ci…
2015
Bacterial infections remain a serious health concern, in particular causing life-threatening infections of hospitalized and immunocompromised patients. The situation is exacerbated by the rise in antibacterial drug resistance, and new treatments are urgently sought. In this endeavour, accurate structures of molecular targets can support early-stage drug discovery. Here, crystal structures, in three distinct forms, of recombinantPseudomonas aeruginosaβ-ketoacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) synthase II (FabF) are presented. This enzyme, which is involved in fatty-acid biosynthesis, has been validated by genetic and chemical means as an antibiotic target in Gram-positive bacteria and represents a po…