Chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydrogenase from Aerobacter aerogenes: evidence that the two reactions occur at one active site

Biochemistry ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 2766-2775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Heyde
Keyword(s):  
Active Site ◽  
Chorismate Mutase ◽  
Aerobacter Aerogenes ◽  
Prephenate Dehydrogenase

scholarly journals Affinity chromatography and inhibition of chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydrogenase by derivatives of phenylalanine and tyrosine

1977 ◽  
Vol 165 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
G D Smith ◽  
D V Roberts ◽  
A Daday
Keyword(s):  
Affinity Chromatography ◽  
Competitive Inhibitor ◽  
Chorismate Mutase ◽  
Prephenate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
One Step ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Sepharose 4B ◽  
Derivatives Of

Several derivatives of phenylalanine and tyrosine were prepared and tested for inhibition of chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.1.12) from Escherichia coli K12 (strain JP 232). The best inhibitors were N-toluene-p-sulphonyl-L-phenylalanine, N-benzenesulphonyl-L-phenylalanine and N-benzloxycarbonyl-L-phenylalanine. Consequently two compounds, N-toluene-sulphonyl-L-p-aminophenylalanine and N-p-aminobenzenesulphonyl-L-phenylalanine, were synthesized for coupling to CNBr-activated Sepharose-4B. The N-toluene-p-sulphonyl-L-p-aminophenylalanine-Sepharose-4B conjugate was shown to bind the enzyme very strongly at pH 7.5. The enzyme was not eluted by various eluents, including 1 M-NaCl, but could be quantitatively recovered by washing with buffer of pH9. Elution was more effective in the presence of 10 mM-1-adamantaneacetic acid, a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme. This affinity-chromatography procedure results in a high degree of purification of the enzyme and can be used to prepare the enzyme in a one-step procedure from the bacterial crude extract. Such a procedure may therefore prove useful in studying this enzyme in a state that closely resembles that in vivo.

Phenylalanine and Tyrosine Biosynthesis in Sporeforming Members of the Order Actinomycetales

1987 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda-K. Hund ◽  
Brigitte Keller ◽  
Franz Lingens
Keyword(s):  
Anion Exchange ◽  
Deae Cellulose ◽  
Anion Exchange Chromatography ◽  
Exchange Chromatography ◽  
Chorismate Mutase ◽  
Biosynthetic Enzymes ◽  
Prephenate Dehydratase ◽  
Prephenate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Arogenate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Tyrosine Biosynthesis

Abstract The enzymes of the terminal steps of phenylalanine and tyrosine biosynthesis, chorismate mutase, prephenate dehydratase, arogenate dehydratase, prephenate dehydrogenase and aroge­ nate dehydrogenase were studied in 13 sporeforming members of the order Actinomycetales. In these organisms tyrosine is synthesized exclusively via arogenate, phenylalanine, however, via phenylpyruvate. The regulation pattern of the corresponding enzymes was determined: No feed­ back inhibition of arogenate dehydrogenase by L-phenylalanine and ʟ-tyrosine was observed. Chorismate mutase was found to be inhibited in all organisms by ʟ-tyrosine and in most organisms by ʟ-tryptophan. ʟ-Phenylalanine was shown to inhibit prephenate dehydratase in the majority of bacteria tested and ʟ-tyrosine activated this enzyme in most cases. The elution profiles for the phenylalanine and tyrosine biosynthetic enzymes were studied in three members of the order Actinomycetales by anion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose.

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