Reaction: (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate + H2O + 2 oxidized ferredoxin = 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate + 2 reduced ferredoxin
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Other name(s): 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate synthase (ambiguous); (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl-diphosphate:protein-disulfide oxidoreductase (hydrating) (incorrect); (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate synthase (ambiguous); gcpE (gene name); ISPG (gene name); (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl-diphosphate synthase
Systematic name: (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl-diphosphate:oxidized ferredoxin oxidoreductase
Comments: An iron-sulfur protein found in plant chloroplasts and cyanobacteria that contains a [4Fe-4S] cluster [1]. Forms part of an alternative non-mevalonate pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis [3]. Bacteria have a similar enzyme that uses flavodoxin rather than ferredoxin (cf. EC 1.17.7.3). The enzyme from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana is active with photoreduced 5-deazaflavin but not with flavodoxin [1].
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References:
1. Okada, K. and Hase, T. Cyanobacterial non-mevalonate pathway: (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate synthase interacts with ferredoxin in Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1. J. Biol. Chem. 280 (2005) 20672-20679. [PMID: 15792953]
2. Seemann, M., Wegner, P., Schünemann, V., Tse Sum Bui, B., Wolff, M., Marquet, A., Trautwein, A.X. and Rohmer, M. Isoprenoid biosynthesis in chloroplasts via the methylerythritol phosphate pathway: the (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate synthase (GcpE) from Arabidopsis thaliana is a [4Fe-4S] protein. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 10 (2005) 131-137. [PMID: 15650872]
3. Seemann, M., Tse Sum Bui, B., Wolff, M., Tritsch, D., Campos, N., Boronat, A., Marquet, A. and Rohmer, M. Isoprenoid biosynthesis through the methylerythritol phosphate pathway: the (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate synthase (GcpE) is a [4Fe-4S] protein. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 41 (2002) 4337-4339. [PMID: 12434382]
4. Seemann, M., Tse Sum Bui, B., Wolff, M., Miginiac-Maslow, M. and Rohmer, M. Isoprenoid biosynthesis in plant chloroplasts via the MEP pathway: direct thylakoid/ferredoxin-dependent photoreduction of GcpE/IspG. FEBS Lett. 580 (2006) 1547-1552. [PMID: 16480720]