Molecular Diversity of Alkenal Double Bond Reductases in the Liverwort Marchantia paleacea.

ABSTRACT: Alkenal double bond reductases (DBRs), capable of catalyzing the NADPH-dependent reduction of the α,β-unsaturated double bond, play key roles in the detoxication of alkenal carbonyls. Here, the isolation and characterization of two DBRs encoded by the liverwort species Marchantia paleacea are described. The two DBRs share a relatively low similarity, and phylogenetic analysis indicated that MpMDBRL is more closely related to microbial DBRs than to other plant DBRs, while MpDBR shares common ancestry with typical plant DBRs. Both DBR proteins exhibited hydrogenation ability towards hydroxycinnamyl aldehydes; however, their temperature optimums were strikingly different. MpMDBRL demonstrated slightly weaker catalytic efficiency compared to MpDBR, and the structural models of their act

SUBMITTER: Wu YF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6099575 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature