A RuBisCO-mediated carbon metabolic pathway in methanogenic archaea
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Two enzymes are considered to be unique to the photosynthetic Calvin?Benson cycle: ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO), responsible for CO2 fixation, and phosphoribulokinase (PRK). Some archaea possess bona fide RuBisCOs, despite not being photosynthetic organisms, but are thought to lack PRK. Here we demonstrate the existence in methanogenic archaea of a carbon metabolic pathway involving RuBisCO and PRK, which we term ‘reductive hexulose-phosphate’ (RHP) pathway. These archaea possess both RuBisCO and a catalytically active PRK whose crystal structure resembles that of photosynthetic bacterial PRK. Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometric analysis of metabolites reveals that the RHP pathway, which differs from the Calvin?Benson cycle only in a few steps, is active in vivo. Our work highlights evolutionary and functional links between RuBisCO-mediated carbon metabolic pathways in methanogenic archaea and photosynthetic organisms. Whether the RHP pathway allows for autotrophy (that is, growth exclusively with CO2 as carbon source) remains unknown.
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- Nature Communications
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Nature Communications 8 14007-14007, 2017-01-13
Nature Publishing Group
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- CRID
- 1050012570394302848
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- NII論文ID
- 120005947453
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- NII書誌ID
- AA12645905
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- 20411723
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- 20.500.14094/90003814
- 10061/11384
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- en
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