Occurrence, Biosynthesis and Function of Isoprenoid Quinones
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1797 (2010) 1587–1605 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Biochimica et Biophysica Acta journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bbabio Review Occurrence, biosynthesis and function of isoprenoid quinones Beatrycze Nowicka, Jerzy Kruk ⁎ Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland article info abstract Article history: Isoprenoid quinones are one of the most important groups of compounds occurring in membranes of living Received 13 April 2010 organisms. These compounds are composed of a hydrophilic head group and an apolar isoprenoid side chain, Received in revised form 9 June 2010 giving the molecules a lipid-soluble character. Isoprenoid quinones function mainly as electron and proton Accepted 14 June 2010 carriers in photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport chains and these compounds show also Available online 19 June 2010 additional functions, such as antioxidant function. Most of naturally occurring isoprenoid quinones belong to naphthoquinones or evolutionary younger benzoquinones. Among benzoquinones, the most widespread and Keywords: Biosynthesis important are ubiquinones and plastoquinones. Menaquinones, belonging to naphthoquinones, function in Electron transport chain respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains of bacteria. Phylloquinone K1,aphytyl Isoprenoid quinone naphthoquinone, functions in the photosynthetic electron transport in photosystem I. Ubiquinones Naphthoquinone participate in respiratory chains of eukaryotic mitochondria and some bacteria. Plastoquinones are Plastoquinone components of photosynthetic electron transport chains of cyanobacteria and plant chloroplasts. Ubiquinone Biosynthetic pathway of isoprenoid quinones has been described, as well as their additional, recently recognized, diverse functions in bacterial, plant and animal metabolism. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction quinones is more polar and the quinol head group is thought to preferentially localize in polar, interphase region of membranes [3,4]. Isoprenoid quinones are membrane-bound compounds found in The ability of reversible reduction and the presence of the lipid- nearly all living organisms. The only exception presently known is soluble side chain make the isoprenoid quinones ideal candidates for some obligatory fermentative bacteria that lost the ability of synthesis their function as hydrogen shuttles between different protein of isoprenoid quinones [1] and methanogenic Archea, belonging to complexes of biological membranes. Isoprenoid quinones, which are Methanosarcinales [2]. Isoprenoid quinones are composed of a polar also termed prenylquinones [5,6], function in electron transport head group and a hydrophobic side chain. The apolar isoprenoid side chains as membrane-bound, mobile hydrogen carriers but some of chain gives the molecules a lipid-soluble character and anchors them these molecules are permanently associated with proteins and par- in membrane lipid bilayers, whereas the hydrophilic head group ticipate in electron transport within protein complexes. Such protein- enables interaction with hydrophilic parts of proteins. It is generally bound prenylquinones, where semiquinone form is stabilized, often accepted that long-chain, isoprenoid quinones localize in the hydro- act as a “gates” between one and two-electron processes. The reduced phobic mid-plane region of the lipid bilayer, whereas the polar head forms of isoprenoid quinones have pronounced antioxidant proper- can oscillate between mid-plane and polar interphase of the mem- ties and protect membranes from lipid peroxidation and deleterious brane [3]. The quinone ring can undergo two-step reversible reduc- effects of reactive oxygen species on membrane components. During tion leading to quinol form (Fig. 1). The reduced form of isoprenoid recent years, a vast number of data concerning function of isoprenoid quinones as enzyme cofactors accumulated. These compounds were also postulated to participate in regulation of gene expression and Abbreviations: DHFL, dehypoxanthinylfutalosine; DHNA, 1,4-dihydroxy-2- signal transduction within cells [7]. naphthoate; DMK, demethylmenaquinone; DXP, 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate; The great majority of biological isoprenoid quinones belong to fl + ETF-QU, electron transfer avoprotein:UQ oxidoreductase; FNR, ferredoxin:NADP naphthoquinones or benzoquinones. The two most important groups oxidoreductase; GGCX, γ-glutamyl carboxylase; Gla, γ-carboxyglutamate; HGA, of benzoquinones are ubiquinones and plastoquinones, differing in homogentisate; K1, phylloquinone; MK, menaquinone; MKH2, menaquinol; MTQ, methionaquinone; MVA, mevalonate; NDH-2, type II dehydrogenase; PHB, p-hydro- the pattern of ring substitution. Besides, the hydrophobic side chains xybenzoate; PS, photosystem; PQ, plastoquinone; PQH2, plastoquinol; QFR, quinol: of isoprenoid quinones can vary not only in the length but also in a fumarate oxidoreductase; ROS, reactive oxygen species; RQ, rhodoquinone; RQH2, degree of saturation, as well as in the presence of additional groups. rhodoquinol; SQR, sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase; TPQ, thermoplasmaquinone; TQ, Different groups of isoprenoid quinones occur in different taxonomic tocopherol quinone; TQH , tocopherol quinol; UQ, ubiquinone; UQH , ubiquinol 2 2 fi ⁎ Corresponding author. groups of organisms, making isoprenoid quinone pro le a useful E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Kruk). taxonomic tool [1]. 0005-2728/$ – see front matter © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.06.007 1588 B. Nowicka, J. Kruk / Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1797 (2010) 1587–1605 –· Fig. 1. Redox reactions of the quinone ring, Q—oxidized form, Q —charged, semiquinone radical, unstable, can be stabilized by interaction with proteins, QH2—stable, non-charged hydroquinone form. 2. Isoprenoid naphthoquinones mentioned, that some obligatory fermentative bacteria had lost the ability to synthesize menaquinones—most of bacteria of genus 2.1. Menaquinones and related compounds Lactobacillus and Streptococcus, but genes of menaquinone biosyn- thetic pathway can be found in some of the species [1,12]. The 2.1.1. Occurrence isoprenoid side chain of menaquinones is most frequently composed Menaquinones (MK) (Fig. 2) are the most widespread microbial of 6–10 prenyl units but also homologues with one to 14 prenyl units respiratory quinones that are evolutionary most ancient type of were found in some species [1]. The side chain is most often fully isoprenoid quinones [8]. These compounds can be found in many unsaturated, but it can be also partially or fully saturated in some groups of Archaea [9] and bacteria, such as γ- δ- ε-proteobacteria, organisms [1]. The length and degree of saturation of the side chain gram-positive bacteria, green sulfur bacteria, green filamentous are often dependent on the growth temperature of a given species. bacteria, deinococci and flavobacteria [8,10,11]. Menaquinones have Menaquinones contain methyl-naphthoquinone as a head group, but low midpoint redox potential, and their appearance in early phase of in some prokaryotes compounds with different modifications of evolution can be connected with the reducing character of atmo- the head group were identified (Fig. 2). Among the Archea, ther- sphere before appearance of oxygenic photosynthesis and the moplasmaquinone (TPQ) and methionaquinone (MTQ) occur in following increase in oxygen concentration in the environment. The Thermoplasma [9,13]. Demethylmenaquinones (DMKs) and methyl- “transition” from naphthoquinones to other quinones, showing menaquinones are often used by proteobacteria and gram-positive higher midpoint redox potential, occurred independently in a few bacteria [1,14]. Chlorobiumquinone (1′-oxo-menaquinone-7) was groups of Prokaryota as an adaptation to aerobic metabolism. The found in photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria—it is only known reduced menaquinones become rapidly and noncatalytically oxidized isoprenoid naphthoquinone containing carbonyl group in the side in the presence of oxygen [11], therefore these compounds cannot chain [1]. Surprisingly, chlorobiumquinone was also identified as a efficiently operate in an atmosphere containing oxygen. It should be major isoprenoid quinone in parasitic protozoan Leischmania Fig. 2. Isoprenoid naphthoquinones: MK-8, menaquinone-8 and DMK-8, demethylmenaquinone-8 present in E. coli; TPQ-7, thermoplasmaquinone-7 and MTQ-7, methionaquinone- 7 found in Thermoplasma acidophilum; ChQ, chlorobiumquinone (1′-oxo-menaquinone-7) occurring in Chlorobium tepidum, PhQ—phylloquinone. B. Nowicka, J. Kruk / Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1797 (2010) 1587–1605 1589 donovani [15]. It is thought to act in plasma membrane of the parasite of certain men genes. After extensive studies including bioinformatic as a part of defense system against oxidative burst of the host. analysis, mutagenesis, radioisotope labeling and genetic engineering, Moreover, the presence of homologues of the genes found in the alternative, so called “futalosine pathway” has been identified photosynthetic bacteria was discovered in trypanosomatids, which (Fig. 3B) [22]. In this pathway, four enzymes are engaged in DHNA let to hypothesize that ancestors of Leishmania could have had biosynthesis: MqnA