Biosynthesis of diacylglyceryl-N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and evidence for lipid-linked N methylation.
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Hofmann, M
RESUMO
Rhodobacter sphaeroides, which produces diacylglyceryl-N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine (DGTS) under phosphate-limiting conditions, was incubated with L-[1-14C]- and L-[methyl-14C]methionine in pulse and pulse-chase experiments. The label was incorporated specifically into the polar part of DGTS and of three other compounds. One of them (compound 3) could be identified as diacylglyceryl-N,N-dimethylhomoserine by cochromatography with a reference obtained semisynthetically from DGTS. It was labelled when using L-[1-14C]- as well as L-[methyl-14C]methionine as a precursor and was converted to DGTS when incubated with the DGTS-forming eukaryotic alga Ochromonas danica (Chrysophyceae). Of the other two compounds labelled with L-[1-14C]methionine, compound 2 was also labelled with L-[methyl-14C]methionine whereas compound 1 was not, suggesting that these two intermediates are the corresponding N-methyl and nonmethylated lipids, respectively. The methyltransferase inhibitor 3'-deazaadenosine enhanced the amounts of compounds 1 to 3 but decreased the amount of DGTS. It is concluded that in R. sphaeroides, DGTS is synthesized by the same pathway as in eukaryotic organisms and that the N methylation is the terminal step in this process and occurs on the preformed lipid. Since the phosphatidylcholine-deficient mutant CHB20, lacking the phosphatidylcholine-forming N-methyltransferase was able to synthesize DGTS, one or several separate N-methyltransferases are suggested to be responsible for the synthesis of DGTS.
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