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  • Title: Evidence for a peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation involving D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoAs. Characterization of two forms of hydro-lyase that convert D-(-)-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA into 2-trans-enoyl-CoA.
    Author: Engeland K, Kindl H.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1991 Aug 15; 200(1):171-8. PubMed ID: 1879422.
    Abstract:
    A novel D-(-)-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA hydro-lyase, forming 2-trans-enoyl-CoA and formerly designated as epimerase (EC 5.1.2.3), was extracted from fat-degrading cotyledons of cucumber seedlings. The enzyme, called D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA hydro-lyase or D-specific 2-trans-enoyl-CoA hydratase, is shown to be required for the degradation of unsaturated fatty acids that contain double bonds extending from even-numbered C atoms. The D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA hydro-lyase was exclusively localized within peroxisomes. A 10,000-fold purification by chromatography on a hydrophobic matrix, a cation exchanger, on hydroxyapatite and Mono S led to two proteins of apparent homogeneity, both exhibiting Mr of 65,000. The D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA hydro-lyases are homodimers with slightly differing isoelectric points around pH = 9.0. They catalyze the conversion of 2-trans-enoyl-CoA into D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA. The reverse reaction was observed but no reaction with 2-cis-enoyl-CoAs or L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoAs. 2-trans-Decenoyl-CoA was converted 10-times faster than 2-trans-butenoyl-CoA. The conversion of 4-cis-decenoyl-CoA into octenoyl-CoA was demonstrated in vitro with purified proteins with an assay mixture containing acyl-CoA oxidase, multifunctional protein, thiolase and the D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA hydro-lyase. Comparisons of enzyme activities present in the cotyledons or isolated peroxisomes clearly show that the pathway via dienoyl-CoA reductase is much less effective than the sequence involving D-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA hydro-lyase.
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