Hensen, Daniela: Biochemical and genetic analysis of the Sox multienzyme complex in the purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum. - Bonn, 2006. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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author = {{Daniela Hensen}},
title = {Biochemical and genetic analysis of the Sox multienzyme complex in the purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2006,
note = {The best studied pathway of thiosulfate oxidation is the complete transformation to sulfate by a sox encoded periplasmic multienzyme complex. In the chemotroph Paracoccus pantotrophus Sox proteins are essential for thiosulfate and also for sulfide oxidation. Intermediates are not formed on the pathway to sulfate [1].
The purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum oxidizes thiosulfate either to tetrathionate or to sulfate, dependent on pH. Intracellular sulfur globules occur as obligate intermediate of the latter pathway. Sequence analysis revealed the presence of five sox genes in two independent gene loci, soxBXA and soxYZ. The genes soxCD, encoding important proteins of the P. pantotrophus Sox complex, are not present in A. vinosum.
Interposon mutagenesis of soxB and soxX in A. vinosum led to a complete inability of the cells to metabolize thiosulfate to sulfate while sulfide oxidation and tetrathionate formation remained uninhibited. Thiosulfate oxidation was also completely abolished in an in frame deletion mutant of soxY. Interestingly, this soxY mutation had further deleterious effects on sulfur compound oxidation: decomposition of sulfur globules formed during sulfide oxidation to sulfate was significantly slower and sulfite was excreted into the medium as an intermediate of this process. A. vinosum wild type is able to effectively use externally added sulfite as photosynthetic electron donor. Oxidation of external sulfite in the soxY mutant appeared greatly impaired, further demonstrating that the effects of a soxY mutation are not limited to thiosulfate oxidation. The observed phenotypes lead us to conclude that Sox proteins play a prominent role in A. vinosum. While SoxB and SoxXA are essential for thiosulfate oxidation, SoxY has an even more extensive function not only in thiosulfate oxidation but also in degradation of other sulfur compounds. In addition to the results obtained on a genetic basis, the work on protein level provided further proof for the actual presence of Sox proteins in A. vinosum. Three different proteins, encoded by the five sox genes present in A. vinosum, were purified from the organism. The first protein, SoxB, was isolated as a monomer. The second protein, SoxXA, was purified as a heterodimeric c-type cytochrome with both subunits containing a heme group. The third protein, the substrate binding molecule SoxYZ, was also present as a heterodimer in A. vinosum.
[1] Friedrich, C.G. et al. (2001), Appl.Env.Microbiol.67: 2873-2882},

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