Biosynthesis of vitamin B12: isolation of precorrin-6x, a metal-free precursor of the corrin macrocycle retaining five S-adenosylmethionine-derived peripheral methyl groups.
AUTOR(ES)
Thibaut, D
RESUMO
delta-Aminolevulinic acid and trimethylisobacteriochlorin are converted by cell-free protein preparations from Pseudomonas denitrificans into a metal-free pigment, precorrin-6x. This pigment, which accumulates when the cell-free system lacks NADPH, can be enzymically converted in high yield (greater than 50%) into hydrogenobyrinic acid by the complete enzyme preparation. Double-labeling experiments establish that precorrin-6x carries five C-methyl groups, which appear at C-1, C-2, C-7, C-12 alpha, and C-17 of the hydrogenobyrinic acid formed enzymically from precorrin-6x. This precursor of the corrin macrocycle is at the dehydrocorrin level of oxidation, has undergone ring contraction and extrusion of C-20, but still carries the acetic acid side chain at C-12. It is demonstrated that the conversion of precorrin-6x into hydrogenobyrinic acid specifically requires an NADPH-dependent reduction step.
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