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Two types of malonate decarboxylase are currently known, both of which form multienzyme complexes. The enzyme described here is a membrane-bound biotin-dependent, Na+-translocating enzyme [6]. The other type is a biotin-independent cytosolic protein (cf. EC?4.1.1.88, biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase). As free malonate is chemically rather inert, it has to be activated prior to decarboxylation. Both enzymes achieve this by exchanging malonate with an acetyl group bound to an acyl-carrier protiein (ACP), to form malonyl-ACP and acetate, with subsequent decarboxylation regenerating the acetyl-bound form of the enzyme. The ACP subunit of both enzymes differs from that found in fatty-acid biosynthesis by having phosphopantethine attached to a serine side-chain as 2-(5-triphosphoribosyl)-3-dephospho-CoA rather than as phosphopantetheine 4′-phosphate. In the anaerobic bacterium?Malonomonas rubra, the components of the multienzyme complex/enzymes involved in carrying out the reactions of this enzyme are as follows: MadA (EC?2.3.1.187, acetyl-S-ACP:malonate ACP transferase), MadB (EC?7.2.4.1, carboxybiotin decarboxylase), MadC/MadD (EC?2.1.3.10, malonyl-S-ACP:biotin-protein carboxyltransferase) and MadH (EC?6.2.1.35, acetate–[acyl-carrier protein] ligase). Two other components that are involved are MadE, the acyl-carrier protein and MadF, the biotin protein. The carboxy group is lost with retention of configuration [5]. |
