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Query: EC:6.4.1.2 (acetyl-CoA carboxylase)
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Biotin localized in barley chloroplast lamellae is covalently bound to a single protein with an approximate molecular weight of 21 000. It contains one mole of biotin per mole of protein and functions as a carboxyl carrier in the acetyl-CoA carboxylase reaction. The protein was obtained by solubilization of the lamellae in phenol/acetic acid/8 M urea. Feeding barley seedlings with [14C]-biotin revealed that the vitamin is not degraded into respiratory substrates by the plant, but is specifically incorporated into biotin carboxyl carrier protein.
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PMID:Biotin carboxyl carrier protein in barley chloroplast membranes. 23 45

This article reviews current knowledge concerning the dermatologic manifestations of biotin deficiency. Biotin is a water-soluble vitamin that acts as an essential cofactor for four carboxylases, each of which catalyzes an essential step in intermediary metabolism. For example, acetyl-CoA carboxylase catalyzes the rate-limiting step in fatty acid elongation. In infants, children, and adults, deficiency of biotin causes alopecia and a characteristic scaly, erythematous dermatitis distributed around body orifices. The rash closely resembles that of zinc deficiency. Candida albicans often can be cultured from the skin lesions. Biotinidase deficiency, an inborn error, causes biotin deficiency, probably as a consequence of unpaired intestinal absorption, cellular salvage, and renal reclamation of biotin; biotinidase deficiency causes dermatologic manifestations similar to biotin deficiency. There is evidence that impaired fatty acid metabolism secondary to reduced activities of the biotin-dependent carboxylases (especially acetyl-CoA carboxylase) plays an etiologic role in the dermatologic manifestations of biotin deficiency. Candida infections secondary to impaired immune function might also contribute to the dermatitis of biotin deficiency.
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PMID:Skin manifestations of biotin deficiency. 176 57

Biotin uptake, utilization, and efflux were studied in normal and biotin-deficient cultured rat hepatocytes. Biotin-deficient cells accumulate about 16-fold more biotin than do normal cells when incubated with a physiological concentration of biotin for 24 h. This difference is due to the greater amount of protein-bound biotin relative to free biotin in biotin-deficient hepatocytes, and is attributable to the presence of more apocarboxylases in deficient cells. The rate of biotin uptake and the rate of activation of the carboxylases, acetyl-CoA carboxylase, pyruvate carboxylase, propionyl-CoA carboxylase, and beta-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase, are proportional to the concentration of exogenous biotin. Increases in carboxylase activities are proportional to the concentration of biotin only at exogenous biotin concentrations of less than 410 nM. Concentrations of 410 nM or more biotin increase carboxylase activities to normal or near normal. Biocytin inhibits biotin uptake at very high concentrations, whereas desthiobiotin and lipoic acid have no effect. Biocytin in the medium results in carboxylase activation either intracellularly or extracellularly by conversion to biotin by biotinidase. Investigation of the efflux of biotin from normal and biotin-deficient cells preincubated with the vitamin showed greater retention of biotin by biotin-deficient cells than by normal cells over 24 h. Retention of free biotin is similar in biotin-deficient and normal cells. The greater amount of biotin retained by biotin-deficient cells is accounted for by the greater amount of bound biotin in these cells. These results suggest that the free and bound biotin pools are independently regulated. The ready loss of free biotin from these cells has implications for the treatment of inherited, biotin-responsive carboxylase deficiencies.
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PMID:Biotin uptake, utilization, and efflux in normal and biotin-deficient rat hepatocytes. 179 12

The biotin-binding site of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from rat was characterized as to its amino acid sequence and relative position in the enzyme molecule. Biotin binds to the lysyl residue in the tetrapeptide Val-Met-Lys-Met; this tetrapeptide is located in close proximity to the NH2 terminus. In all other biotin-containing enzymes, the conserved tetrapeptide Ala-Met-Lys-Met is the counterpart to that of rat acetyl-CoA carboxylase; and the lysyl residue is 35 residues from the COOH terminus. To examine the significance of these unusual features of the biotinylation site of animal acetyl-CoA carboxylase, cDNA fragments were expressed in a bacterial system and the effects of specific site-directed mutagenesis were examined. Replacement of Val by Ala in the conserved tetrapeptide abolished biotinylation of the expressed protein. However, introduction of a termination codon at residue 36, in such a way that the distance between the lysine on which biotin binds and the COOH-terminal amino acid was 35 residues and the penultimate amino acid was the hydrophobic residue leucine, increased the efficiency of biotinylation, provided a substantial portion of the NH2-terminal peptide was removed.
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PMID:Analysis of the biotin-binding site on acetyl-CoA carboxylase from rat. 256 68

Data are summarized from several papers on the effects of biotin deficiency on lipid metabolism, especially fatty acid synthesis, in chicks. Biotin deficiency inhibits in vivo lipogenesis and hepatic acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) activity. Although acetate incorporation into fatty acids is inhibited in biotin-deficient chicks, malonate incorporation is not inhibited. In fact, dietary malonic acid stimulates lipogenesis during biotin deficiency as measured by total carcass fatty acid content. Biotin-deficient chicks exhibit altered hepatic and whole body fatty acid composition in comparison with control chicks. The deficiency results in an increased proportion of the 16-carbon to 18-carbon fatty acids, and the most striking increase is for palmitoleic (16:1) acid. Biotin deficiency increases the relative incorporation of palmitate and stearate into phospholipids and decreases the relative incorporation of these fatty acids into triglycerides. Finally, mercury stimulates lipogenesis in biotin-deficient, but not in control, chicks by an unknown mechanism.
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PMID:Biotin effects on fatty acid synthesis in chicks. 286 76

Biotin-dependent carboxylases require covalently bound biotin for enzymatic activity. The biotin is attached through a lysine residue, which in a number of bacterial, avian, and mammalian carboxylases, is found within the conserved sequence Ala-Met-Lys-Met. We have determined the partial nucleotide sequence of cDNA clones for human propionyl-CoA carboxylase and pyruvate carboxylase. The predicted amino acid sequence of both these proteins contains the conserved tetrapeptide 35 residues from the carboxy terminus. In addition, both proteins contain the tripeptide, Pro-Met-Pro, 26 residues toward the amino terminus from the biotin attachment site. The overall amino acid homology through this region is 43%. Similar findings have been made for the biotin-containing polypeptides of transcarboxylase of Propionibacterium shermanii and acetyl-CoA carboxylase of Escherichia coli (W. L. Maloy, B. U. Bowien, G. K. Zwolinski, K. G. Kumar, and H. G. Wood (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254, 11615-11622). The implications of this sequence conservation with regard to the function and evolution of biotin-dependent carboxylases is discussed. We propose that the 60 amino acids surrounding the biotin site are bounded by a proline "hinge" and the carboxy terminus has remained conserved as a result of constraints imposed by biotinylation of the enzyme.
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PMID:Sequence homology around the biotin-binding site of human propionyl-CoA carboxylase and pyruvate carboxylase. 355 48

Biotin-binding antibodies were raised in rabbits by injecting biotin-bovine serum albumin conjugate. Neither the protomer nor the polymer of rat mammary-gland acetyl-CoA carboxylase formed precipitin bands with the anti-biotin. By virtue of its ability to bind biotin (apparent binding constant for free biotin about 1mum), the anti-biotin inhibited the carboxylase activity under certain conditions. This property of the antibody was employed to detect the ligand-induced changes affecting the biotinyl group in different conformational states of mammalian carboxylase. Depending on the ligand present, the biotinyl group in the protomeric form was either accessible or inaccessible to the antibody. The biotinyl group of the protomer generated by a relatively high concentration of NaCl (0.5m) reacted with the antibody, and the antibody-carboxylase complex could not be converted into active enzyme by citrate. Further experiments showed that citrate failed to induce polymerization in this protomer-antibody complex and that anti-biotin could be displaced rapidly from this complex with excess of biotin. The resulting protomer was converted into the polymeric state on citrate addition, with parallel regain of enzyme activity. In the presence of ADP+Mg(2+), ATP+Mg(2+) or ATP+Mg(2+)+HCO(3) (-), however, the enzyme remained as a protomer, but its configuration was such that the biotinyl group was essentially inaccessible to the antibody. Likewise, the biotinyl group of the different polymeric forms of the carboxylase (s approximately 30-45S) engendered by phosphate, malonyl-CoA, acetyl-CoA or citrate remained essentially inaccessible, since their activity was minimally affected by the anti-biotin. In the presence of 0.15m-NaCl, the phosphate-induced polymer reverted to a approximately 19S form with concomitant appearance of anti-biotin-sensitivity, whereas the other polymeric forms remained unaffected under similar experimental conditions.
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PMID:Detection of ligand-induced perturbations affecting the biotinyl group of mammalian acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase by using biotin-binding antibodies. 611 76

Biotin carboxylases in mammalian cells are regulatory enzymes in lipogenesis and gluconeogenesis. In this study, endogenous biotin in skeletal and cardiac muscle was detected using avidin conjugated with alkaline phosphatase and applied in high concentrations to muscle sections. The avidin binding was subsequently visualized by histochemical demonstration of the alkaline phosphatase activity. All cardiac muscle cells showed high affinity for avidin with only the nuclei and the intercalated discs remaining unstained. In skeletal muscle a diffuse reaction could be detected in the sarcoplasm of the muscle fibres. A granular reaction was noted in the same fibres that showed activity for succinic dehydrogenase. The specificity of the coloured reaction product in the muscle sections was investigated and is suggested to be caused by avidin binding to biotin moieties in mitochondria and the cytosol. Mitochondrial and cytosolic preparations of skeletal muscle were electrophoresed in sodium dodecyl sulphate gels. After blotting and incubation with conjugated avidin, two bands with molecular weights of 75 kDa and 130 kDa respectively were evident in the mitochondrial preparation. It is suggested that the 75-kDa band represents comigration of the biotin-containing subunits of propionyl-CoA carboxylase and methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase. The 130-kDa band may represent the biotin-containing pyruvate carboxylase. In the cytosolic preparation a 270-kDa band was stained in blots that had been incubated with conjugated avidin; this band is suggested to represent acetyl-CoA carboxylase. A 190-kDa cytosolic band might be a cleavage product of acetyl-CoA carboxylase. We propose that using alkaline phosphatase-conjugated avidin it is possible to detect the mitochondrial and cytosolic biotin-dependent carboxylases in striated muscle.
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PMID:Biotin carboxylases in mitochondria and the cytosol from skeletal and cardiac muscle as detected by avidin binding. 816 85

Biotin biosynthesis and retention in Escherichia coli is regulated by the multifunctional protein, BirA. The protein acts as both the transcriptional repressor of the biotin biosynthetic operon and as a ligase for covalent attachment of biotin to a unique lysine residue of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase. Biotinyl-5'-AMP is the activated intermediate for the ligase reaction and the allosteric effector for DNA binding. We have purified and characterized apoBCCP and a truncated form containing the COOH-terminal 87 residues (apoBCCP87). Molecular masses of the proteins measured using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry conformed to the expected values. The assembly states of apoBCCP and apoBCCP87 were determined using sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation. Nearly quantitative enzymatic transfer of biotin from BirA-biotinyl-5'-AMP to the apoBCCP forms was assessed using two methods, mass spectrometric analysis of acceptor proteins after incubation with BirA-bio-5'-AMP and a steady state fluorescence assay. The BirA catalyzed rates of transfer of biotin from bio-5'-AMP to apoBCCP and apoBCCP87 were measured by stopped-flow fluorescence. Kinetic parameters estimated from these measurements indicate that the intact and truncated forms of the acceptor protein are functionally identical.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of intact and truncated forms of the Escherichia coli biotin carboxyl carrier subunit of acetyl-CoA carboxylase. 863 88

Biotin-dependent enzymes contain a biotinyl-lysine residue in a conserved sequence motif, MKM, located in a surface hairpin turn in one of the two beta-sheets that make up the domain. A sub-gene encoding the 82-residue C-terminal biotinyl domain from the biotin carboxy carrier protein of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with glutathione S-transferase was created and over-expressed in E. coli. The biotinyl domain was readily released by cleavage with thrombin. Five mutant domains were created in which the conserved MKM motif was systematically replaced: by MAK and KAM, in which the target lysine is moved one place; by KKM and MKK, in which a second potential site for biotinylation is introduced; and by DKA, the motif found in the correspondingly conserved site of lipoylation in the structurally related lipoyl domains of 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes. No biotinylation of the MAK or KAM mutants was observed in vivo or by purified biotinyl protein ligase in vitro; in the KKM and MKK mutants, only one lysine residue, presumed to be that in its native position in the hairpin turn, was found to be biotinylated in vivo and in vitro. The DKA mutant was not biotinylated in vivo, but was partly lipoylated and octanoylated. It was also a poor substrate for lipoylation in vitro catalysed by the E. coli lipoyl protein ligase encoded by the lplA gene. The flanking sequence in the MKM motif is important, but not crucial, and appears to have been conserved in part to be compatible with the subsequent carboxylation reactions of biotin-dependent enzymes. The DKA motif, displayed in the hairpin loop, is sufficient to address lipoylation in E. coli but probably by a pathway different from that mediated by the lplA-dependent ligase. The recognition of the structurally homologous lipoyl and biotinyl domains by the appropriate ligase evidently has a major structural component to it, notably the positioning of the target lysine residue in the exposed hairpin loop, but there appear to be additional recognition sites elsewhere on the domains.
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PMID:Selectivity of post-translational modification in biotinylated proteins: the carboxy carrier protein of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase of Escherichia coli. 944 86


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