Identification of a ubiG-like gene involved in ubiquinone biosynthesis from Chlamydophila pneumoniae AR39.

Abstract:

AIMS:To investigate if one hypothetical protein from Chlamydophila pneumoniae AR39 exerts UbiG-like function by complementary experiments. METHODS AND RESULTS:Proteins UbiG have a signature S-adenosylmethionine-binding motif compared with other methyltransferases. Probing with the conserved motif, one hypothetical protein from C. pneumoniae AR39 was proposed to be a UbiG-like protein. The protein encoding the gene was used to swap its counterpart in Escherichia coli, and its expression in resultant strain DYCG was confirmed by RT-PCR. Strain DYCG grew on succinate as a carbon source, and rescued ubiquinone content in vivo, while the ubiG deletion strain DYK did not. CONCLUSIONS:Results indicate that the putative protein from C. pneumoniae exerts a UbiG-like function involved in ubiquinone biosynthesis. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY:Identification of the ubiG-like gene will facilitate research on ubiquinone biosynthesis and aerobic respiration in the genus Chlamydophila owing to the important function of ubiquinone in vivo.

journal_name

Lett Appl Microbiol

authors

Liu J,Zhang X,Liu J

doi

10.1111/j.1472-765X.2007.02144.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-07-01 00:00:00

pages

47-54

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1

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0266-8254

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1472-765X

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LAM2144

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45

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