PMID:12140293

Citation	Kupke, T (2002) Molecular characterization of the 4'-phosphopantothenoylcysteine synthetase domain of bacterial dfp flavoproteins. J. Biol. Chem. 277:36137-45
Abstract	In bacteria, coenzyme A is synthesized in five steps from pantothenate. The flavoprotein Dfp catalyzes the synthesis of the coenzyme A precursor 4'-phosphopantetheine in the presence of 4'-phosphopantothenate, cysteine, CTP, and Mg(2+) (Strauss, E., Kinsland, C., Ge, Y., McLafferty, F. W., and Begley, T. P. (2001) J. Biol. Chem. 276, 13513-13516). It has been shown that the NH(2)-terminal domain of Dfp has 4'-phosphopantothenoylcysteine decarboxylase activity (Kupke, T., Uebele, M., Schmid, D., Jung, G., Blaesse, M., and Steinbacher, S. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 31838-31846). Here I demonstrate that the COOH-terminal CoaB domain of Dfp catalyzes the synthesis of 4'-phosphopantothenoylcysteine. The exchange of conserved amino acid residues within the CoaB domain revealed that the synthesis of 4'-phosphopantothenoylcysteine occurs in two half-reactions. Using the mutant protein His-CoaB N210D the putative acyl-cytidylate intermediate of 4'-phosphopantothenate was detectable. The same intermediate was detectable for the wild-type CoaB enzyme if cysteine was omitted in the reaction mixture. Exchange of the conserved Lys(289) residue, which is part of the strictly conserved (289)KXKK(292) motif of the CoaB domain, resulted in complete loss of activity with neither the acyl-cytidylate intermediate nor 4'-phosphopantothenoylcysteine being detectable. Gel filtration experiments indicated that CoaB forms dimers. Residues that are important for dimerization are conserved in CoaB proteins from eubacteria, Archaea, and eukaryotes.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M206188200
Keywords	Amino Acid Motifs; Amino Acid Sequence; Catalysis; Chromatography, Gel; Cloning, Molecular; Coenzyme A/chemistry; Dimerization; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Histidine/metabolism; Lysine/chemistry; Models, Chemical; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; Mutation; Peptide Synthases/chemistry; Peptide Synthases/metabolism; Plasmids/metabolism; Protein Binding; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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