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. 1985 Apr;162(1):61–66. doi: 10.1128/jb.162.1.61-66.1985

Component A2 of the methylcoenzyme M methylreductase system from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.

P E Rouvière, J C Escalante-Semerena, R S Wolfe
PMCID: PMC218953  PMID: 3980447

Abstract

Component A2 of the methylcoenzyme M methylreductase system of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum has been purified 370-fold by liquid chromatography. Homogeneity was obtained by anaerobic preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Component A2 is a colorless, air-stable protein consisting of a single polypeptide as indicated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The relative molecular mass of the native protein was determined by high-performance, size exclusion chromatography to be Mr 52,000; on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis a value of Mr 59,000 was obtained. When cell extract was subjected to N6-ATP-agarose affinity chromatography the methylcoenzyme M methylreductase system was resolved into two fractions; one of them was component A2. This work provides a new operational definition for component A2, i.e., its characteristic chromatographic behavior on N6-ATP-agarose. However, its functional definition is its ability to reconstitute the methylreductase activity with components A1, A3, and C. Several attempts to assign a role to component A2 are reported.

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