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. 1989 Dec;171(12):6800–6807. doi: 10.1128/jb.171.12.6800-6807.1989

Homology between hydroxybutyryl and hydroxyacyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase enzymes from Clostridium acetobutylicum fermentation and vertebrate fatty acid beta-oxidation pathways.

J S Youngleson 1, D T Jones 1, D R Woods 1
PMCID: PMC210579  PMID: 2687255

Abstract

The enzymes NAD-dependent beta-hydroxybutyryl coenzyme A dehydrogenase (BHBD) and 3-hydroxyacetyl coenzyme A (3-hydroxyacyl-CoA) dehydrogenase are part of the central fermentation pathways for butyrate and butanol production in the gram-positive anaerobic bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum and for the beta oxidation of fatty acids in eucaryotes, respectively. The C. acetobutylicum hbd gene encoding a bacterial BHBD was cloned, expressed, and sequenced in Escherichia coli. The deduced primary amino acid sequence of the C. acetobutylicum BHBD showed 45.9% similarity with the equivalent mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation enzyme and 38.4% similarity with the 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase part of the bifunctional enoyl-CoA hydratase:3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase from rat peroxisomes. The pig mitochondrial 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase showed 31.7% similarity with the 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase part of the bifunctional enzyme from rat peroxisomes. The phylogenetic relationship between these enzymes supports a common evolutionary origin for the fatty acid beta-oxidation pathways of vertebrate mitochondria and peroxisomes and the bacterial fermentation pathway.

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