Journal article
Isolation and Assays of Bacterial Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Lyases
Methods in enzymology, Vol.605, pp.291-323
2018
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.02.020
PMID: 29909828
Abstract
The organosulfur metabolite dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and its enzymatic breakdown product dimethyl sulfide (DMS) have important implications in the global sulfur cycle and in marine microbial food webs. Enormous amounts of DMSP are produced in marine environments where microbial communities import and catabolize it via either the demethylation or the cleavage pathways. The enzymes that cleave DMSP are termed "DMSP lyases" and generate acrylate or hydroxypropionate, and ~10
tons of DMS annually. An important environmental factor affecting DMS generation by the DMSP lyases is the availability of metal ions as these enzymes use various cofactors for catalysis. This chapter summarizes advances on bacterial DMSP catabolism, with an emphasis on various biochemical methods employed for the isolation and characterization of bacterial DMSP lyases. Strategies are presented for the purification of DMSP lyases expressed in bacterial cells. Specific conditions for the efficient isolation of apoproteins in Escherichia coli are detailed. DMSP cleavage is effectively inferred, utilizing the described HPLC-based acrylate detection assay. Finally, substrate and metal binding interactions are examined using fluorescence and UV-visible assays. Together, these methods are rapid and well suited for the biochemical and structural characterization of DMSP lyases and in the assessment of uncharacterized DMSP catabolic enzymes, and new metalloenzymes in general.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Isolation and Assays of Bacterial Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Lyases
- Creators
- Mishtu Dey - The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States. Electronic address: mishtu-dey@uiowa.eduAdam E Brummett - The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Methods in enzymology, Vol.605, pp.291-323
- DOI
- 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.02.020
- PMID
- 29909828
- ISSN
- 0076-6879
- eISSN
- 1557-7988
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984216575702771
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