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ArticleThe ISME journal2011

DddY, a periplasmic dimethylsulfoniopropionate lyase found in taxonomically diverse species of Proteobacteria.

Andrew R J Curson, Matthew J Sullivan, Jonathan D Todd, Andrew W B Johnston

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Article in The ISME journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew R J CursonSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Matthew J Sullivan
Jonathan D Todd
Andrew W B Johnston
University of East Anglia · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H002642/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The abundant compatible solute dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is made by many marine algae. Different marine bacteria catabolise DMSP by various mechanisms, some of which liberate the environmentally important gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS). We describe an enzyme, DddY, which cleaves DMSP into DMS plus acrylate and is located in the bacterial periplasm, unlike other DMSP lyases that catalyse this reaction. There are dddY-like genes in strains of Alcaligenes, Arcobacter and Shewanella, in the β-, ɛ- and γ-proteobacteria, respectively. In Alcaligenes, dddY is in a cluster of ddd and acu genes that resemble, but also have significant differences to, those in other bacteria that catabolise both DMSP and acrylate. Although production of DMS and transcription of Alcaligenes dddY are both apparently inducible by pre-growth of cells with DMSP, this substrate must be catabolised to form acrylate, the bona fide coinducer.

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AcrylatesAlcaligenesAmino Acid SequenceBacterial ProteinsCarbon-Sulfur LyasesComputational BiologyGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMolecular Sequence DataMultigene FamilyMutationProteobacteriaSequence Analysis, DNASulfidesSulfonium CompoundsAcrylatesacrylic acidBacterial ProteinsCarbon-Sulfur Lyasesdimethylpropiothetindimethyl sulfidedimethylsulfoniopropionate lyaseSulfidesSulfonium Compounds

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PMID21248856
PMCPMC3146280
OpenAlexW1990469238

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