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Aeromonas hydrophila Adenylyl Cyclase 2: a New Class of Adenylyl Cyclases with Thermophilic Properties and Sequence Similarities to Proteins from Hyperthermophilic Archaebacteria

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Complementation of an Escherichia coli cya mutant with a genomic library from Aeromonas hydrophila allowed isolation of clones containing two different cya genes. Whereas one of these genes ( cyaA ) coded for an adenylyl cyclase (AC1) belonging to the previously described class I adenylyl cyclases (ACs), the second one ( cyaB ) coded for a protein (AC2) that did not match any previously characterized protein when compared to protein sequence databases. In particular, it did not align with any of members of the three known classes of ACs. The purified AC2 enzyme exhibited remarkable biochemical characteristics, namely, an optimum activity at a high temperature (65°C) and at an alkalinic pH (9.5). In order to investigate the functions of both cyclases in A. hydrophila , each gene was inactivated in the chromosome and the resulting mutant strains were examined for physiological alterations. It was shown that, in contrast to cyaA , the cyaB gene was not expressed under usual laboratory growth conditions. However, introduction of a plasmid harboring the cyaB gene in a cyaA mutant, as well as in a cyaA cyaB mutant, allowed cyclic AMP production. AC2 is the first member of a new class of previously unrecognized ACs, and to date, no functional counterpart has been demonstrated in other organisms. However, scanning databases revealed a significant similarity between AC2 and the gene product of three hyperthermophilic archaebacteria: Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum , Archaeglobus fulgidus , and Methanococcus jannaschii . The possibility of a gene transfer between such phylogenetically divergent bacteria is discussed.

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Odile Sismeiro, Pascale Trotot, Francis Biville, Christian Vivares, Antoine Danchin. Aeromonas hydrophila Adenylyl Cyclase 2: a New Class of Adenylyl Cyclases with Thermophilic Properties and Sequence Similarities to Proteins from Hyperthermophilic Archaebacteria. Journal of Bacteriology, 1998, 180 (13), pp.3339-3344. ⟨10.1128/JB.180.13.3339-3344.1998⟩. ⟨hal-04497201⟩
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