N-methyl-bacillithiol, a Novel Thiol from Anaerobic Bacteria

被引:4
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作者
Newton, Gerald L. [1 ]
Rawat, Mamta [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Div Biol Sci, San Diego, CA 92103 USA
[2] Calif State Univ Fresno, Dept Biol, Fresno, CA 93740 USA
来源
MBIO | 2019年 / 10卷 / 01期
关键词
Chlorobium; N-methyl-bacillithiol; anaerobes; bacillithiol; glutathione; thiols; GLUTATHIONE AMIDE; IDENTIFICATION; DETOXIFICATION; TRANSFERASE; METABOLISM; RESISTANCE; MYCOTHIOL;
D O I
10.1128/mBio.02634-18
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Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
J. Hiras, S. V. Sharma, V. Raman, R. A. J. Tinson, et al. (mBio 9: e01603-18, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01603-18) report on the identification of a novel thiol, N-methyl-bacillithiol (N-Me-BSH), in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. In N-methyl-bacillithiol, the amine of the cysteine is methylated by a novel S-adenosylmethioneine transferase designated N-methyl-bacillithiol synthase A (NmbA). The Hiras et al. study is significant because it is the first report of the presence of N-Me-BSH in anaerobic bacteria.
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