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Analyses were made of the structures and levels of folates and modified folates present in extremely thermophilic bacteria. These procedures involved the chemical analysis of products resulting from the oxidative cleavage of the 6-substituted, folatelike tetrahydropterins present in the cells. Air-oxidized cell extracts of extreme thermophiles from two members of the archaebacterial order Thermococcales, Thermococcus celer and Pyrococcus furiosus, contained only 7-methylpterin, indicating that these cells contain a modified folate with a methylated pterin. Cell extracts also contained 6-acetyl-7-methyl-7,8-dihydropterin, another product derived from the oxidative cleavage of a dimethylated folate, demonstrating that both the C-7 and C-9 carbons of the pterin were methylated. Extracts, however, contained neither p-aminobenzoylpolyglutamates nor methaniline, the oxidative cleavage products of folates and methanopterin, respectively, indicating that they contain a previously undescribed C1 carrier(s). On the basis of the level of the 7-methylpterin isolated, the levels of modified folate were 2 to 10 times higher than those typically found in mesophilic bacteria and 10 to 100 times le

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Author

R H White

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology (ISSN 0021-9193)

Published

1991

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)