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Journal of Bacteriology, Nov 1, 1989
The meta-cleavage pathway of catechol is a major mechanism for degradation of aromatic compounds.... more The meta-cleavage pathway of catechol is a major mechanism for degradation of aromatic compounds. In this pathway, the aromatic ring of catechol is cleaved by catechol 2,3-dioxygenase and its product, 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde, is further metabolized by either a hydrolytic or dehydrogenative route. In the dehydrogenative route, 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde is oxidized to the enol form of 4-oxalocrotonate by a dehydrogenase and then further metabolized to acetaldehyde and pyruvate by the actions of 4-oxalocrotonate isomerase, 4-oxalocrotonate decarboxylase, 2-oxopent-4-enoate hydratase, and 4-hydroxy-2-oxovalerate aldolase. In this study, the isomerase, decarboxylase, and hydratase encoded in the TOL plasmid pWWO of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 were purified and characterized. The 28-kilodalton isomerase was formed by association of extremely small identical protein subunits with an apparent molecular weight of 3,500. The decarboxylase and the hydratase were 27and 28-kilodalton polypeptides, respectively, and were copurified by high-performance-liquid chromatography with anion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and gel filtration columns. The structural genes for the decarboxylase (xyll) and the hydratase (xylj) were cloned into Escherichia coli. The elution profile in anion-exchange chromatography of the decarboxylase and the hydratase isolated from E. coli XyII+ XylJ. and XyllI XylJ+ clones, respectively, were different from those isolated from XylI+ XylJ+ bacteria. This suggests that the carboxylase and the hydratase form a complex in vivo. The keto but not the enol form of 4-oxalocrotonate was a substrate for the decarboxylase. The product of decarboxylation was 2-hydroxypent-2,4-dienoate rather than its keto form, 2-oxopent-4-enoate. The hydratase acts on the former but not the latter isomer. Because 2-hydroxypent-2,4-dienoate is chemically unstable, formation of a complex between the decarboxylase and the hydratase may assure efficient transformation of this unstable intermediate in vivo.
Journal of Bacteriology, Jul 1, 1987
The lB-ketoadipate pathway of Acinetobacter caloaceticus comprises two parallel metabolic branche... more The lB-ketoadipate pathway of Acinetobacter caloaceticus comprises two parallel metabolic branches. One branch, mediated by six enzymes encoded by the cat genes, converts catechol to succinate and acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA); the other branch, catalyzed by products of the pca genes, converts protocatechuate to succinate and acetyl-CoA by six metabolic reactions analogous or identical to those of the catechol sequence. We used the expression plasmid pUC18 to construct expression libraries of DNA from an A. caloaceticus mutant strain from which the cat genes had been deleted. Immunological screening with antiserum to the pcaE gene product, ,B-ketoadipate:succinyl-CoA transferase I, resulted in the isolation of a cloned 11-kilobase-pair (kbp) fragment which inducibly expressed all six pea genes under control of the lac promoter on pUC18. The induced Escherichia coli cells formed the six pea gene products at levels 10-to 30-fold higher than found in fully induced A. calcoaceicus cultures, although protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (the iron-containing product of the pcaA gene) from the recombinant strain possessed a relatively low turnover number. An E. coli culture expressing the cloned pea genes quantitatively converted protocatechuate to (-ketoadipate; failure of the organism to metabolize the latter compound can be most readily ascribed to relatively low pool levels of succinyl-CoA, a required substrate for 0-ketoadipate:succinyl-CoA transferase, in E. coli. The gene order and direction of
Journal of Biological Chemistry, Aug 1, 1985
Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) from Pseudomonas sp. B13 has been crystallized in a form sui... more Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) from Pseudomonas sp. B13 has been crystallized in a form suitable for high resolution x-ray diffraction study. The crystals are orthorhombic, the space group being P2,2121, with unit cell dimensions a = 48.9 A, b = 71.2 A, and c = 77.5 A. There appears to be 1 molecule in the asymmetric unit.
Journal of Bacteriology, 1993
Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degra... more Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degradation via the modified ortho cleavage pathway. Recently, the enzymes induced in 4-fluorobenzoate-utilizing bacteria have been classified into three groups on the basis of their specificity towards cis- and trans-dienelactone. The dienelactone hydrolase and the 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase from Pseudomonas cepacia have now been purified to apparent homogeneity and characterized with respect to molecular mass and amino acid composition. The dienelactone hydrolase has a distinct preference for cis-dienelactone and did not convert the trans isomer or muconolactone, 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone, or 4-fluoromuconolactone to a significant extent. In properties like amino acid composition, pH optimum of activity, and lack of inhibition by p-chloromercuribenzoate, the P. cepacia dienelactone hydrolase differed substantially from 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolases and other dienelactone hyd...
Journal of Bacteriology, 1988
The respective specific activities of catechol 1,2-oxygenase II (catechol 1,2-dioxygenase; EC 1.1... more The respective specific activities of catechol 1,2-oxygenase II (catechol 1,2-dioxygenase; EC 1.13.11.1) and muconate cycloisomerase II (chloromuconate cycloisomerase; EC 5.5.1.7) in crude extracts of chlorobenzoate-grown Pseudomonas cells corresponded to about 16 and 11% of the soluble cell protein. High levels of protein synthesis appeared to compensate for a loss in catalytic activity that accompanied evolutionary acquisition of broad substrate specificity required for the enzymes to accommodate halogenated substrates.
Journal of Bacteriology, 1987
Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) catalyzes the conversion of cis- or trans-4-carboxymethylene... more Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) catalyzes the conversion of cis- or trans-4-carboxymethylenebut-2-en-4-olide (dienelactone) to maleylacetate. An approximately 24-fold purification from extracts of 3-chlorobenzoate-grown Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 yielded a homogeneous preparation of the enzyme. The purified enzyme crystallized readily and proved to be a monomer with a molecular weight of about 30,000. Each dienelactone hydrolase molecule contains two cysteinyl side chains. One of these was readily titrated by stoichiometric amounts of p-chloromercuribenzoate, resulting in inactivation of the enzyme; the inactivation could be reversed by the addition of dithiothreitol. The other cysteinyl side chain appeared to be protected in the native protein against chemical reaction with p-chloromercuribenzoate. The properties of sulfhydryl side chains in dienelactone hydrolase resembled those that have been characterized for bacterial 4-carboxymethylbut-3-en-4-olide (enol-lactone) hydrolas...
Journal of Bacteriology, 1991
1,2-Dihydroxynaphthalene dioxygenase was purified to homogeneity from a bacterium that degrades n... more 1,2-Dihydroxynaphthalene dioxygenase was purified to homogeneity from a bacterium that degrades naphthalenesulfonic acids (strain BN6). The enzyme requires Fe2+ for maximal activity and consists of eight identical subunits with a molecular weight of about 33,000. Analysis of the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence revealed a high degree of homology (22 of 29 amino acids) with the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl dioxygenase from strain Pseudomonas paucimobilis Q1. 1,2-Dihydroxynaphthalene dioxygenase from strain BN6 shows a wide substrate specificity and also cleaves 5-, 6-, and 7-hydroxy-1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene, 2,3- and 3,4-dihydroxybiphenyl, catechol, and 3-methyl- and 4-methylcatechol. Similar activities against the hydroxy-1,2-dihydroxynaphthalenes were also found in cell extracts from naphthalene-degrading bacteria.
Biochemistry, 1983
Steady-state kinetic analysis of the divalent metal ion requiring cis&-muconate cycloisomerase ca... more Steady-state kinetic analysis of the divalent metal ion requiring cis&-muconate cycloisomerase catalyzed interconversion of cis,cis-muconate ' and (+)-muconolactone obeys Michaelis-Menten kinetics and the Haldane relationship from pH 6.2 to 8.3. The pH vs. k,,,/K, profiles suggest free-enzyme apparent pK, values of 6.2 and 7.4: the reciprocal behavior of the data with respect to the latter pK, value is consistent with base-acid catalysis by the enzyme involving proton removal from the lactone and protonation of cis,cismuconate, respectively. This catalysis by the enzyme of proton transfer is consistent with the stereospecific incorporation of solvent deuterium into the pro-5R position of (+)-muconolactone in the enzyme-catalyzed reaction: in reverse, the departure of the carboxylic oxygen atom and proton from the C(4) and C(5) carbon atoms follows a syn (cis) route [Avigad, G., & Englard, S. (1 969) Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. SOC. Exp. Biol. 28, 345, Abstr. 4861. The titration of enzyme freed of divalent metal ion with manganous ion, monitored by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and steady-state kinetic measurements, indicates a single binding site per subunit characterized by KdisFMn = [E] [Mn2+]/ [E.Mn2+] = 4.5 and 3.0 pM, respectively, the latter value analyzed via a rapid equilibrium mechanism. The paramagnetic effects of Mn2+
Journal of Bacteriology, 1990
The DNA sequence of a 2,391-base-pair HindIII restriction fragment of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus... more The DNA sequence of a 2,391-base-pair HindIII restriction fragment of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DNA containing the pcaCHG genes is reported. The DNA sequence reveals that A. calcoaceticus pca genes, encoding enzymes required for protocatechuate metabolism, are arranged in a single transcriptional unit, pcaEFDBCHG, whereas homologous genes are arranged differently in Pseudomonas putida. The pcaG and pcaH genes represent separate reading frames respectively encoding the alpha and beta subunits of protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (EC 1.13.1.3); previously a single designation, pcaA, had been used to represent DNA encoding this enzyme. The alpha and beta protein subunits appear to share common ancestry with each other and with catechol 1,2-dioxygenases from A. calcoaceticus and P. putida. Marked conservation of amino acid sequence is observed in a region containing two histidyl residues and two tyrosyl residues that appear to ligate iron within each oxygenase. In some regions within th...
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1991
Arthritis & Rheumatism, 2008
Escape from the CD8 � T cell response through epitope mutations can lead to loss of immune contro... more Escape from the CD8 � T cell response through epitope mutations can lead to loss of immune control of HIV replication. Theoretically, escape from CD8 � T cell recognition is less likely when multiple TCRs target individual MHC/peptide complexes, thereby increasing the chance that amino acid changes in the epitope could be tolerated. We studied the CD8 � T cell response to six immunodominant epitopes in five HIV-infected subjects using a novel approach combining peptide stimulation, cell surface cytokine capture, flow cytometric sorting, anchored RT-PCR, and real-time quantitative clonotypic TCR tracking. We found marked variability in the number of clonotypes targeting individual epitopes. One subject recognized a single epitope with six clonotypes, most of which were able to recognize and lyse cells expressing a major epitope variant that arose. Additionally, multiple clonotypes remained expanded during the course of infection, irrespective of epitope variant frequency. Thus, CD8 �...
The protocatechuate and catechol pathways, two separate and parallel branches of the ..beta..-ket... more The protocatechuate and catechol pathways, two separate and parallel branches of the ..beta..-ketoadipate pathway in Pseudomonas putida, converge at a common intermediate - ..beta..-ketoadipate enol-lactone. The enol-lactone is generated by 4-carboxymuconolactone decarboxylase in the protocatechuate pathway while muconolactone isomerase produces it in the catechol pathway. The presence of these enzymes as well as ..beta..-carboxymuconate cycloisomerase and its substrate, ..beta..-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate, in a NMR tube, leads to the following sequence of events. Lactonization of ..beta..-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate produces 4-carboxymuconolactone which decarboxylates enzymatically with deuteration by D/sub 2/O to afford 2-(/sup 2/H)-4-ketoadipate enol-lactone - the substrate for muconolactone isomerase. Further conversion of the monodeuterated enol-lactone by muconolactone isomerase affords muconolactone which is nearly completely deuterated at the 4 position. The proton ricochets betw...
Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degra... more Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degradation via the modified ortho cleavage pathway. Recently, the enzymes induced in 4-fluorobenzoate-utilizing bacteria have been classified into three groups on the basis of their specificity towards cis- and trans-dienelactone. The dienelactone hydrolase and the 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase from Pseudomonas cepacia have now been purified to apparent homogeneity and characterized with respect to molecular mass and amino acid composition. The dienelactone hydrolase has a distinct preference for cis-dienelactone and did not convert the trans isomer or muconolactone, 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone, or 4-fluoromuconolactone to a significant extent. In properties like amino acid composition, pH optimum of activity, and lack of inhibition byp-chloromercuriben-zoate, the P. cepacia dienelactone hydrolase differed substantially from 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolases and other dienelactone hyd...
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Methods in Enzymology, Dec 31, 1990
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Methods in Enzymology, 1990
Methods in Enzymology, 1990
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987
Journal of Bacteriology, Nov 1, 1989
The meta-cleavage pathway of catechol is a major mechanism for degradation of aromatic compounds.... more The meta-cleavage pathway of catechol is a major mechanism for degradation of aromatic compounds. In this pathway, the aromatic ring of catechol is cleaved by catechol 2,3-dioxygenase and its product, 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde, is further metabolized by either a hydrolytic or dehydrogenative route. In the dehydrogenative route, 2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde is oxidized to the enol form of 4-oxalocrotonate by a dehydrogenase and then further metabolized to acetaldehyde and pyruvate by the actions of 4-oxalocrotonate isomerase, 4-oxalocrotonate decarboxylase, 2-oxopent-4-enoate hydratase, and 4-hydroxy-2-oxovalerate aldolase. In this study, the isomerase, decarboxylase, and hydratase encoded in the TOL plasmid pWWO of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 were purified and characterized. The 28-kilodalton isomerase was formed by association of extremely small identical protein subunits with an apparent molecular weight of 3,500. The decarboxylase and the hydratase were 27and 28-kilodalton polypeptides, respectively, and were copurified by high-performance-liquid chromatography with anion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and gel filtration columns. The structural genes for the decarboxylase (xyll) and the hydratase (xylj) were cloned into Escherichia coli. The elution profile in anion-exchange chromatography of the decarboxylase and the hydratase isolated from E. coli XyII+ XylJ. and XyllI XylJ+ clones, respectively, were different from those isolated from XylI+ XylJ+ bacteria. This suggests that the carboxylase and the hydratase form a complex in vivo. The keto but not the enol form of 4-oxalocrotonate was a substrate for the decarboxylase. The product of decarboxylation was 2-hydroxypent-2,4-dienoate rather than its keto form, 2-oxopent-4-enoate. The hydratase acts on the former but not the latter isomer. Because 2-hydroxypent-2,4-dienoate is chemically unstable, formation of a complex between the decarboxylase and the hydratase may assure efficient transformation of this unstable intermediate in vivo.
Journal of Bacteriology, Jul 1, 1987
The lB-ketoadipate pathway of Acinetobacter caloaceticus comprises two parallel metabolic branche... more The lB-ketoadipate pathway of Acinetobacter caloaceticus comprises two parallel metabolic branches. One branch, mediated by six enzymes encoded by the cat genes, converts catechol to succinate and acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA); the other branch, catalyzed by products of the pca genes, converts protocatechuate to succinate and acetyl-CoA by six metabolic reactions analogous or identical to those of the catechol sequence. We used the expression plasmid pUC18 to construct expression libraries of DNA from an A. caloaceticus mutant strain from which the cat genes had been deleted. Immunological screening with antiserum to the pcaE gene product, ,B-ketoadipate:succinyl-CoA transferase I, resulted in the isolation of a cloned 11-kilobase-pair (kbp) fragment which inducibly expressed all six pea genes under control of the lac promoter on pUC18. The induced Escherichia coli cells formed the six pea gene products at levels 10-to 30-fold higher than found in fully induced A. calcoaceicus cultures, although protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (the iron-containing product of the pcaA gene) from the recombinant strain possessed a relatively low turnover number. An E. coli culture expressing the cloned pea genes quantitatively converted protocatechuate to (-ketoadipate; failure of the organism to metabolize the latter compound can be most readily ascribed to relatively low pool levels of succinyl-CoA, a required substrate for 0-ketoadipate:succinyl-CoA transferase, in E. coli. The gene order and direction of
Journal of Biological Chemistry, Aug 1, 1985
Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) from Pseudomonas sp. B13 has been crystallized in a form sui... more Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) from Pseudomonas sp. B13 has been crystallized in a form suitable for high resolution x-ray diffraction study. The crystals are orthorhombic, the space group being P2,2121, with unit cell dimensions a = 48.9 A, b = 71.2 A, and c = 77.5 A. There appears to be 1 molecule in the asymmetric unit.
Journal of Bacteriology, 1993
Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degra... more Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degradation via the modified ortho cleavage pathway. Recently, the enzymes induced in 4-fluorobenzoate-utilizing bacteria have been classified into three groups on the basis of their specificity towards cis- and trans-dienelactone. The dienelactone hydrolase and the 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase from Pseudomonas cepacia have now been purified to apparent homogeneity and characterized with respect to molecular mass and amino acid composition. The dienelactone hydrolase has a distinct preference for cis-dienelactone and did not convert the trans isomer or muconolactone, 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone, or 4-fluoromuconolactone to a significant extent. In properties like amino acid composition, pH optimum of activity, and lack of inhibition by p-chloromercuribenzoate, the P. cepacia dienelactone hydrolase differed substantially from 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolases and other dienelactone hyd...
Journal of Bacteriology, 1988
The respective specific activities of catechol 1,2-oxygenase II (catechol 1,2-dioxygenase; EC 1.1... more The respective specific activities of catechol 1,2-oxygenase II (catechol 1,2-dioxygenase; EC 1.13.11.1) and muconate cycloisomerase II (chloromuconate cycloisomerase; EC 5.5.1.7) in crude extracts of chlorobenzoate-grown Pseudomonas cells corresponded to about 16 and 11% of the soluble cell protein. High levels of protein synthesis appeared to compensate for a loss in catalytic activity that accompanied evolutionary acquisition of broad substrate specificity required for the enzymes to accommodate halogenated substrates.
Journal of Bacteriology, 1987
Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) catalyzes the conversion of cis- or trans-4-carboxymethylene... more Dienelactone hydrolase (EC 3.1.1.45) catalyzes the conversion of cis- or trans-4-carboxymethylenebut-2-en-4-olide (dienelactone) to maleylacetate. An approximately 24-fold purification from extracts of 3-chlorobenzoate-grown Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 yielded a homogeneous preparation of the enzyme. The purified enzyme crystallized readily and proved to be a monomer with a molecular weight of about 30,000. Each dienelactone hydrolase molecule contains two cysteinyl side chains. One of these was readily titrated by stoichiometric amounts of p-chloromercuribenzoate, resulting in inactivation of the enzyme; the inactivation could be reversed by the addition of dithiothreitol. The other cysteinyl side chain appeared to be protected in the native protein against chemical reaction with p-chloromercuribenzoate. The properties of sulfhydryl side chains in dienelactone hydrolase resembled those that have been characterized for bacterial 4-carboxymethylbut-3-en-4-olide (enol-lactone) hydrolas...
Journal of Bacteriology, 1991
1,2-Dihydroxynaphthalene dioxygenase was purified to homogeneity from a bacterium that degrades n... more 1,2-Dihydroxynaphthalene dioxygenase was purified to homogeneity from a bacterium that degrades naphthalenesulfonic acids (strain BN6). The enzyme requires Fe2+ for maximal activity and consists of eight identical subunits with a molecular weight of about 33,000. Analysis of the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence revealed a high degree of homology (22 of 29 amino acids) with the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl dioxygenase from strain Pseudomonas paucimobilis Q1. 1,2-Dihydroxynaphthalene dioxygenase from strain BN6 shows a wide substrate specificity and also cleaves 5-, 6-, and 7-hydroxy-1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene, 2,3- and 3,4-dihydroxybiphenyl, catechol, and 3-methyl- and 4-methylcatechol. Similar activities against the hydroxy-1,2-dihydroxynaphthalenes were also found in cell extracts from naphthalene-degrading bacteria.
Biochemistry, 1983
Steady-state kinetic analysis of the divalent metal ion requiring cis&-muconate cycloisomerase ca... more Steady-state kinetic analysis of the divalent metal ion requiring cis&-muconate cycloisomerase catalyzed interconversion of cis,cis-muconate ' and (+)-muconolactone obeys Michaelis-Menten kinetics and the Haldane relationship from pH 6.2 to 8.3. The pH vs. k,,,/K, profiles suggest free-enzyme apparent pK, values of 6.2 and 7.4: the reciprocal behavior of the data with respect to the latter pK, value is consistent with base-acid catalysis by the enzyme involving proton removal from the lactone and protonation of cis,cismuconate, respectively. This catalysis by the enzyme of proton transfer is consistent with the stereospecific incorporation of solvent deuterium into the pro-5R position of (+)-muconolactone in the enzyme-catalyzed reaction: in reverse, the departure of the carboxylic oxygen atom and proton from the C(4) and C(5) carbon atoms follows a syn (cis) route [Avigad, G., & Englard, S. (1 969) Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. SOC. Exp. Biol. 28, 345, Abstr. 4861. The titration of enzyme freed of divalent metal ion with manganous ion, monitored by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and steady-state kinetic measurements, indicates a single binding site per subunit characterized by KdisFMn = [E] [Mn2+]/ [E.Mn2+] = 4.5 and 3.0 pM, respectively, the latter value analyzed via a rapid equilibrium mechanism. The paramagnetic effects of Mn2+
Journal of Bacteriology, 1990
The DNA sequence of a 2,391-base-pair HindIII restriction fragment of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus... more The DNA sequence of a 2,391-base-pair HindIII restriction fragment of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DNA containing the pcaCHG genes is reported. The DNA sequence reveals that A. calcoaceticus pca genes, encoding enzymes required for protocatechuate metabolism, are arranged in a single transcriptional unit, pcaEFDBCHG, whereas homologous genes are arranged differently in Pseudomonas putida. The pcaG and pcaH genes represent separate reading frames respectively encoding the alpha and beta subunits of protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (EC 1.13.1.3); previously a single designation, pcaA, had been used to represent DNA encoding this enzyme. The alpha and beta protein subunits appear to share common ancestry with each other and with catechol 1,2-dioxygenases from A. calcoaceticus and P. putida. Marked conservation of amino acid sequence is observed in a region containing two histidyl residues and two tyrosyl residues that appear to ligate iron within each oxygenase. In some regions within th...
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1991
Arthritis & Rheumatism, 2008
Escape from the CD8 � T cell response through epitope mutations can lead to loss of immune contro... more Escape from the CD8 � T cell response through epitope mutations can lead to loss of immune control of HIV replication. Theoretically, escape from CD8 � T cell recognition is less likely when multiple TCRs target individual MHC/peptide complexes, thereby increasing the chance that amino acid changes in the epitope could be tolerated. We studied the CD8 � T cell response to six immunodominant epitopes in five HIV-infected subjects using a novel approach combining peptide stimulation, cell surface cytokine capture, flow cytometric sorting, anchored RT-PCR, and real-time quantitative clonotypic TCR tracking. We found marked variability in the number of clonotypes targeting individual epitopes. One subject recognized a single epitope with six clonotypes, most of which were able to recognize and lyse cells expressing a major epitope variant that arose. Additionally, multiple clonotypes remained expanded during the course of infection, irrespective of epitope variant frequency. Thus, CD8 �...
The protocatechuate and catechol pathways, two separate and parallel branches of the ..beta..-ket... more The protocatechuate and catechol pathways, two separate and parallel branches of the ..beta..-ketoadipate pathway in Pseudomonas putida, converge at a common intermediate - ..beta..-ketoadipate enol-lactone. The enol-lactone is generated by 4-carboxymuconolactone decarboxylase in the protocatechuate pathway while muconolactone isomerase produces it in the catechol pathway. The presence of these enzymes as well as ..beta..-carboxymuconate cycloisomerase and its substrate, ..beta..-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate, in a NMR tube, leads to the following sequence of events. Lactonization of ..beta..-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate produces 4-carboxymuconolactone which decarboxylates enzymatically with deuteration by D/sub 2/O to afford 2-(/sup 2/H)-4-ketoadipate enol-lactone - the substrate for muconolactone isomerase. Further conversion of the monodeuterated enol-lactone by muconolactone isomerase affords muconolactone which is nearly completely deuterated at the 4 position. The proton ricochets betw...
Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degra... more Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degradation via the modified ortho cleavage pathway. Recently, the enzymes induced in 4-fluorobenzoate-utilizing bacteria have been classified into three groups on the basis of their specificity towards cis- and trans-dienelactone. The dienelactone hydrolase and the 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolase from Pseudomonas cepacia have now been purified to apparent homogeneity and characterized with respect to molecular mass and amino acid composition. The dienelactone hydrolase has a distinct preference for cis-dienelactone and did not convert the trans isomer or muconolactone, 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone, or 4-fluoromuconolactone to a significant extent. In properties like amino acid composition, pH optimum of activity, and lack of inhibition byp-chloromercuriben-zoate, the P. cepacia dienelactone hydrolase differed substantially from 3-oxoadipate enol-lactone hydrolases and other dienelactone hyd...
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Methods in Enzymology, Dec 31, 1990
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Methods in Enzymology, 1990
Methods in Enzymology, 1990
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987