Selenium-dependent enzymes from nicotinic acid hydroxylase

Gladyshev VN, SV Khangulov, TC Stadtman (1994) Nicotinic acid hydroxylase from Clostridium barkeri electron paramagnetic resonance studies show that selenium is coordinated with molybdenum in the catalytically active selenium-dependent enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91 232-236. 

Imhoff D, JR Andreesen (1979) Nicotinic acid hydroxylase from Clostridium barkeri selenium-dependent formation of active enzyme. FEMS Microbiol Lett 5 155-158. 

Another selenium-containing molybdenum hydroxylase that has been isolated from Clostridium barkeri (identical to Eubacterium barkeri) is nicotinic acid hydroxylase (NAH). Clostridium barkeri was isolated initially as a fermentor of nicotinic acid and thus NAH is a key enzyme in the efficient fermentation of nicotinic acid as a source of carbon and energy. NAH contained selenium when purified from cells labeled with Se-selenite. However, this label was lost during denaturing gel electrophoresis and also on heating of the enzyme (Dilworth 1982). Exhaustive analysis of selenium-labeled alkylation products of NAH under various conditions revealed selenium was bound as a labile cofactor (Dilworth 1982), and not as seleno-cysteine. This report was the first to describe a selenium-dependent enzyme that did not contain selenium in the form of selenocysteine. 

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