Stereoselective carveol dehydrogenase from Rhodococcus erythropolis DCL14 - A novel nicotinoprotein belonging to the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily
Mj. Van Der Werf et al., Stereoselective carveol dehydrogenase from Rhodococcus erythropolis DCL14 - A novel nicotinoprotein belonging to the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily, J BIOL CHEM, 274(37), 1999, pp. 26296-26304
A novel nicotinoprotein, catalyzing the dichlorophenolindophenol-dependent
oxidation of carveol to carvone, was purified to homogeneity from Rhodococc
us erythropolis DCL14. The enzyme is specifically induced after growth on l
imonene and carveol Dichlorophenolindophenol-dependent carveol dehydrogenas
e (CDH) is a homotetramer of 120 kDa with each subunit containing a tightly
bound NAD(H) molecule. The enzyme is optimally active at pH 5.5 and 50 deg
rees C and displays a broad substrate specificity with a preference for sub
stituted cyclohexanols. When incubated with a diastereomeric mixture of (4R
)- or (4S)-carveol, CDH stereoselectively catalyzes the conversion of the (
6S)-carveol stereoisomers only, Kinetic studies with pure stereoisomers sho
wed that this is due to large differences in V-max/K-m values and simultane
ous product inhibition by CR)- or (S)-carvone. The R. erythropolis CDH gene
(limC) was identified in an operon encoding the enzymes involved in Iimone
ne degradation. The CDH nucleotide sequence revealed an open reading frame
of 831 base pairs encoding a 277-amino acid protein with a deduced mass of
29,531 Da. The CDH primary structure shares 10-30% sequence identity with m
embers of the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily. Structure ho
mology modeling with trihydroxynaphthalene reductase fi om Magnaporthe gris
ea suggests-that CDH from R. erythropolis DCL14 is an alpha/beta one-domain
protein with an extra loop insertion involved in NAD binding and a flexibl
e C-terminal part involved in monoterpene binding.