The cloneddddPgene of the marine bacteriumRoseovarius nubinhibensallowsEscherichia colito form the volatile dimethyl sulfide (DMS) from dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), an abundant anti-stress compatible solute made by many marine plankton and macroalgae. Using purified DddP, we show here that this enzyme is a DMSP lyase that cleaves DMSP to DMS plus acrylate. DddP forms a functional homodimeric enzyme, has a pH optimum of 6.0 and was aKmof ∼14 mM for the DMSP substrate. DddP belongs to the M24B family of peptidases, some members of which have metal cofactors. However, the metal chelators EDTA and bipyridyl did not affect DddP activityin vitroand the as-isolated enzyme did not contain metal ions. Thus, DddP resembles those members of the M24B family, such as creatinase, which also act on a non-peptide substrate and have no metal cofactor. Site-directed mutagenesis of the active-site region of DddP completely abolished its activity. Another enzyme, termed DddL, which occurs in other alphaproteobacteria, had also been shown to generate DMS plus acrylate from DMSP. However, DddL and DddP have no sequence similarity to each other, so DddP represents a second, wholly different class of DMSP lyase.
海洋细菌Roseovarius nubinhibens的克隆dddP基因使得大肠杆菌能够从丰富的抗压缩溶质二甲基硫代丙酸盐(DMSP)中形成挥发性二甲基硫(DMS)。在使用纯化的DddP时,我们展示了这种酶是一种DMSP裂解酶,可以将DMSP裂解成DMS和丙烯酸。DddP形成一个功能性的同源二聚体酶,pH最适值为6.0,DMSP底物的Km约为14mM。DddP属于肽酶M24B家族,其中一些成员具有金属辅因子。然而,金属螯合剂EDTA和联吡啶对DddP的活性没有影响,而未经处理的酶也不含有金属离子。因此,DddP类似于M24B家族的那些成员,例如肌酸酶,它们也作用于非肽底物并且没有金属辅因子。对DddP的活性位点区域进行定点突变完全消除了其活性。另一种酶称为DddL,在其他α-变形菌中出现,也已被证明能够从DMSP中产生DMS和丙烯酸。然而,DddL和DddP彼此没有序列相似性,因此DddP代表了DMSP裂解酶的第二个完全不同的类别。