scholarly journals Solution Structure of the Tandem Acyl Carrier Protein Domains from a Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Synthase Reveals Beads-on-a-String Configuration

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e57859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uldaeliz Trujillo ◽  
Edwin Vázquez-Rosa ◽  
Delise Oyola-Robles ◽  
Loren J. Stagg ◽  
David A. Vassallo ◽  
...  
2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uldaeliz Trujillo Rodriguez ◽  
Delise Oyola-Robles ◽  
Stefan Arold ◽  
Fernando Alves De Melo ◽  
John E. Ladbury ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (20) ◽  
pp. 6336-6337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Jiang ◽  
Ross Zirkle ◽  
James G. Metz ◽  
Lisa Braun ◽  
Leslie Richter ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Woo Cheol Lee ◽  
Sungjae Choi ◽  
Ahjin Jang ◽  
Kkabi Son ◽  
Yangmee Kim

AbstractSome Gram-negative bacteria harbor lipids with aryl polyene (APE) moieties. Biosynthesis gene clusters (BGCs) for APE biosynthesis exhibit striking similarities with fatty acid synthase (FAS) genes. Despite their broad distribution among pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria, the detailed roles of the metabolic products of APE gene clusters are unclear. Here, we determined the crystal structures of the β-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) reductase ApeQ produced by an APE gene cluster from clinically isolated virulent Acinetobacter baumannii in two states (bound and unbound to NADPH). An in vitro visible absorption spectrum assay of the APE polyene moiety revealed that the β-ketoacyl-ACP reductase FabG from the A. baumannii FAS gene cluster cannot be substituted for ApeQ in APE biosynthesis. Comparison with the FabG structure exhibited distinct surface electrostatic potential profiles for ApeQ, suggesting a positively charged arginine patch as the cognate ACP-binding site. Binding modeling for the aryl group predicted that Leu185 (Phe183 in FabG) in ApeQ is responsible for 4-benzoyl moiety recognition. Isothermal titration and arginine patch mutagenesis experiments corroborated these results. These structure–function insights of a unique reductase in the APE BGC in comparison with FAS provide new directions for elucidating host–pathogen interaction mechanisms and novel antibiotics discovery.


2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 615-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Honeyman ◽  
T. Fawcett

We have used a yeast two-hybrid approach to detect direct protein interactions between fatty acid synthase components. Enoyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) reductase was found to interact with stearoyl-ACP desaturase and acyl-ACP thioesterase, but none of these proteins interacted with ACP in the yeast nucleus.


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