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Evolution of the adhE Gene Product of Escherichia coli from a Functional Reductase to a Dehydrogenase

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Membrillo-Hernández, Jorge
Echave Lozano, Pedro
Cabiscol Català, Elisa
Tamarit Sumalla, Jordi
Ros Salvador, Joaquim
Lin, Edmund C. C.
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Membrillo-Hernández, Jorge; Echave Lozano, Pedro; Cabiscol Català, Elisa; Tamarit Sumalla, Jordi; Ros Salvador, Joaquim; Lin, Edmund C. C.; . (2000) . Evolution of the adhE Gene Product of Escherichia coli from a Functional Reductase to a Dehydrogenase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2000, Vol. 275, núm. 43, p. 33869–33875. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M005464200.
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The multifunctional AdhE protein of Escherichia coli (encoded by the adhE gene) physiologically catalyzes the sequential reduction of acetyl-CoA to acetaldehyde and then to ethanol under fermentative conditions. The NH2-terminal region of the AdhE protein is highly homologous to aldehyde:NAD1 oxidoreductases, whereas the COOH-terminal region is homologous to a family of Fe21-dependent ethanol:NAD1 oxidoreductases. This fusion protein also functions as a pyruvate formate lyase deactivase. E. coli cannot grow aerobically on ethanol as the sole carbon and energy source because of inadequate rate of adhE transcription and the vulnerability of the AdhE protein to metal-catalyzed oxidation. In this study, we characterized 16 independent two-step mutants with acquired and improved aerobic growth ability on ethanol. The AdhE proteins in these mutants catalyzed the sequential oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde and to acetyl-CoA. All first stage mutants grew on ethanol with a doubling time of about 240 min. Sequence analysis of a randomly chosen mutant revealed an Ala-267 3 Thr substitution in the acetaldehyde:NAD1 oxidoreductase domain of AdhE. All second stage mutants grew on ethanol with a doubling time of about 90 min, and all of them produced an AdhEA267T/ E568K. Purified AdhEA267T and AdhEA267T/E568K showed highly elevated acetaldehyde dehydrogenase activities. It therefore appears that when AdhE catalyzes the two sequential reactions in the counter-physiological direction, acetaldehyde dehydrogenation is the rate-limiting step. Both mutant proteins were more thermosensitive than the wild-type protein, but AdhEA267T/E568K was more thermal stable than AdhEA267T. Since both mutant enzymes exhibited similar kinetic properties, the second mutation probably conferred an increased growth rate on ethanol by stabilizing AdhEA267T
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https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M005464200
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