Mycobacteria synthesize intracellular methylglucose lipopolysaccharides (MGLP) proposed to regulate fatty acid synthesis. Although their structures have been elucidated, the identity of most biosynthetic genes remains unknown. The first step in MGLP biosynthesis is catalyzed by a glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase (GpgS, Rv1208 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv). However, a typical glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase (GpgP, EC3.1.3.70) for dephosphorylation of glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate to glucosylglycerate, was absent from mycobacterial genomes. We purified the native GpgP from Mycobacterium vanbaalenii and identified the corresponding gene deduced from amino acid sequences by mass spectrometry. The M. tuberculosis ortholog (Rv2419c), annotated as a putative phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM, EC5.4.2.1), was expressed and functionally characterized as a new GpgP. Regardless of the high specificity for glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate, the mycobacterial GpgP is not a sequence homolog of known isofunctional GpgPs. The assignment of a new function in M. tuberculosis genome expands our understanding of this organism's genetic repertoire and of the early events in MGLP biosynthesis.
分枝杆菌在细胞内合成
甲基葡萄糖脂
多糖(MGLP),用于调节
脂肪酸的合成。虽然它们的结构已被阐明,但大多数
生物合成
基因的身份仍然未知。MGLP
生物合成的第一步由
葡萄糖基-3-
磷酸甘油酸合成酶(G
PGS,结核分枝杆菌 H37Rv 中的 Rv1208)催化。然而,结核分枝杆菌
基因组中并不存在典型的
葡萄糖基-3-
磷酸甘油酯
磷酸酶(G
PGP,
EC3.1.3.70),它能将
葡萄糖基-3-
磷酸甘油酯去
磷酸化为
葡萄糖基
甘油酯。我们从范氏分枝杆菌(Mycobacterium vanbaalenii)中纯化出了原生的 G
PGP,并通过质谱鉴定了从
氨基酸序列推导出的相应
基因。结核分枝杆菌的直向同源物(Rv2419c)被注释为一种推定的
磷酸甘油酸突变酶(
PGM,
EC5.4.2.1),它作为一种新的 G
PGP 得到了表达和功能表征。尽管该分枝杆菌 G
PGP 对
葡萄糖基-3-
磷酸甘油酸具有高度特异性,但它与已知的同功能 G
PGP 并不是同源序列。结核杆菌
基因组中新功能的确定,拓展了我们对该
生物基因库和 MGLP
生物合成早期事件的了解。