The 5-methylthio-D-ribose moiety of 5`-(methylthio)-adenosine is converted to methionine in a wide variety of organisms. 1,2-Dihydroxy-3-keto-5-methylthiopentene anion (an aci-reductone) is an advanced intermediate in the methionine salvage pathway present in the Gram-negative bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae and rat liver. This metabolite is oxidized spontaneously in air to formate and 2-keto-4-methylthiobutyric acid (the -keto acid precursor of methionine). Previously, we had purified an enzyme (E2) from Klebsiella which catalyzes the oxidative degradation of the aci-reductone to formate, CO, and methylthiopropionic acid. To further characterize the reactions of the aci-reductone we used its desthio analog, 1-2-dihydroxy-3-ketohexene anion (III), which was described previously. This molecule undergoes the analogous enzymatic and non-enzymatic reactions of the natural substrate, namely the formation of formate, CO, and butyrate from III. Experiments with O show that E2 is a dioxygenase which incorporates one molecule of O into formate and butyric acid. No cofactor has been identified. We were unable to find an enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of 1,2-dihydroxy-3-keto-5-methylthiopentane to a keto acid precursor of methionine. The keto acid is probably produced non-enzymically in Klebsiella. We have, however, identified and purified an enzyme (E3) from rat liver, which catalyzes the formation of formate and 2-oxopentanoic acid from III. This enzyme has a monomeric molecular mass of 28,000 daltons, and no chromophoric cofactor has been identified. Experiments with O show that E3 is a dioxygenase which incorporates an O molecule into formate and the -keto acid. In rat liver CO formation was not detected.

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