Keywords :
Butanones; Protein Subunits; Acetone; methylethyl ketone; Carboxy-Lyases; acetone carboxylase; Acetone/metabolism; Butanones/metabolism; Carboxy-Lyases/chemistry; Carboxy-Lyases/isolation & purification; Carboxy-Lyases/metabolism; Cupriavidus/enzymology; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Enzyme Stability; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Protein Multimerization; Substrate Specificity; Temperature; 2-butanone; Genome analysis; Key enzymes; Biotechnology; Food Science; Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology; Ecology
Abstract :
[en] Acetone carboxylase (Acx) is a key enzyme involved in the biodegradation of acetone by bacteria. Except for the Helicobacteraceae family, genome analyses revealed that bacteria that possess an Acx, such as Cupriavidus metallidurans strain CH34, are associated with soil. The Acx of CH34 forms the heterohexameric complex α(2)β(2)γ(2) and can carboxylate only acetone and 2-butanone in an ATP-dependent reaction to acetoacetate and 3-keto-2-methylbutyrate, respectively.
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