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Post-translational Activation Introduces a Free Radical into Pyruvate Formate-lyase

Overview
Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Specialty Science
Date 1984 Mar 1
PMID 6369325
Citations 68
Authors
J Knappe
F A Neugebauer
H P Blaschkowski
M Ganzler
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Abstract

Pyruvate formate-lyase (formate acetyltransferase; EC 2.3.1.54) of Escherichia coli cells is post-translationally interconverted between inactive and active forms. Conversion of the inactive to the active form is catalyzed by an Fe2+-dependent activating enzyme and requires adenosylmethionine and dihydroflavodoxin. This process is shown here to introduce a paramagnetic moiety into the structure of pyruvate formate-lyase. It displays an EPR signal at g = 2 with a doublet splitting of 1.5 mT and could comprise an organic free radical located on an amino acid residue of the polypeptide chain. Hypophosphite was discovered as a specific reagent that destroys both the enzyme radical and the enzyme activity; it becomes covalently bound to the protein. The enzymatic generation of the radical, which is linked to adenosylmethionine cleavage into 5'-deoxyadenosine and methionine, possibly occurs through an Fe-adenosyl complex. These results suggest a radical mechanism for the catalytic cycle of pyruvate formate-lyase.

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