Genomic identification and in vitro reconstitution of a complete biosynthetic pathway for the osmolyte di- myo -inositol-phosphate
- 13 March 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Vol. 104 (11), 4279-4284
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0609279104
Abstract
Di-myo-inositol 1,1′-phosphate (DIP) is a major osmoprotecting metabolite in a number of hyperthermophilic species of archaea and bacteria. Although the DIP biosynthesis pathway was previously proposed, genes encoding only two of the four required enzymes, inositol-1-phosphate synthase and inositol monophosphatase, were identified. In this study we used a comparative genomic analysis to predict two additional genes of this pathway (termed dipA and dipB) that remained missing. In Thermotoga maritima both candidate genes (in an originally misannotated locus TM1418) form an operon with the inositol-1-phosphate synthase encoding gene (TM1419). A predicted inositol-mono-phosphate cytidylyltransferase activity was directly confirmed for the purified product of T. maritima gene dipA cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The entire DIP pathway was reconstituted in E. coli by cloning of the TM1418–TM1419 operon in pBAD expression vector and confirmed to function in the crude lysate. 31P NMR and MS analysis revealed that DIP synthesis proceeds via a phosphorylated DIP intermediate, P-DIP, which is generated by the dipB-encoded enzyme, now termed P-DIP synthase. This previously unknown intermediate is apparently converted to the final product, DIP, by an inositol monophosphatase-like phosphatase. These findings allowed us to revise the previously proposed DIP pathway. The genomic survey confirmed its presence in the species known to use DIP for osmoprotection. Among several newly identified species with a postulated DIP pathway, Aeropyrum pernix was directly proven to produce this osmolyte.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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