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Abstract

All catalyse the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA via a simple pyruvate oxidoreductase. This is in contrast to the and most aerobic bacteria, which use the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex [PDHC], consisting of multiple copies of three component enzymes: E1 (pyruvate decarboxylase), E2 (lipoate acetyl-transferase) and E3 (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, DHLipDH). Until now no PDHC activity has been found in the , although DHLipDH has been discovered in the extremely halophilic and its gene sequence has been determined. In this paper, the discovery and sequencing of an operon containing the gene in the halophilic archaeon are reported. Upstream of the gene are 3 ORFs which show highest sequence identities with the α, β and genes of the PDHC from Gram-positive organisms. Structural predictions of the proposed protein product of the gene show a domain structure characteristic of the E2 component in PDHCs, and catalytically important residues, including the lysine to which the lipoic acid cofactor is covalently bound, are conserved. Northern analyses indicate the transcription of the whole operon, but no PDHC enzymic activity could be detected in cell extracts. The presence in the gene of an insertion (equivalent to approximately 100 aa) not found in bacterial or eukaryal E2 proteins, might be predicted to prevent multienzyme complex assembly. This is the first detailed report of the genes for a putative 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase complex in the , and the evolutionary and metabolic consequences of these findings are discussed.

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