scholarly journals Steady-state kinetics of malonyl-CoA synthetase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum and evidence for malonyl-AMP formation in the reaction

1994 ◽  
Vol 297 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y S Kim ◽  
S W Kang

Malonyl-CoA synthetase catalyses the formation of malonyl-CoA directly from malonate and CoA with hydrolysis of ATP into AMP and PP1. The catalytic mechanism of malonyl-CoA synthetase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum was investigated by steady-state kinetics. Initial-velocity studies and the product-inhibition studies with AMP and PPi strongly suggested ordered Bi Uni Uni Bi Ping Pong Ter Ter system as the most probable steady-state kinetic mechanism of malonyl-CoA synthetase. Michaelis constants were 61 microM, 260 microM and 42 microM for ATP, malonate and CoA respectively, and the value for Vmax, was 11.2 microM/min. The t.l.c. analysis of the 32P-labelled products in a reaction mixture containing [gamma-32P]ATP in the absence of CoA showed that PPi was produced after the sequential addition of ATP and malonate. Formation of malonyl-AMP, suggested as an intermediate in the kinetically deduced mechanism, was confirmed by the analysis of 31P-n.m.r. spectra of an AMP product isolated from the 18O-transfer experiment using [18O]malonate. The 31P-n.m.r. signal of the AMP product appeared at 0.024 p.p.m. apart from that of [16O4]AMP, indicating that one atom of 18O transferred from [18O]malonate to AMP through the formation of malonyl-AMP. Formation of malonyl-AMP was also confirmed through the t.l.c. analysis of reaction mixture containing [alpha-32P]ATP. These results strongly support the ordered Bi Uni Uni Bi Pin Pong Ter Ter mechanism deduced from initial-velocity and product-inhibition studies.

1982 ◽  
Vol 205 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann K. Daly ◽  
Timothy J. Mantle

The steady-state kinetics of the major form of ox kidney aldehyde reductase with d-glucuronic acid have been determined at pH7. Initial rate and product inhibition studies performed in both directions are consistent with a Di-Iso Ordered Bi Bi mechanism. The mechanism of inhibition by sodium valproate and benzoic acid is shown to involve flux through an alternative pathway.


1986 ◽  
Vol 234 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
H G Nimmo

The inhibition of Escherichia coli isocitrate dehydrogenase by glyoxylate and oxaloacetate was examined. The shapes of the progress curves in the presence of the inhibitors depended on the order of addition of the assay components. When isocitrate dehydrogenase or NADP+ was added last, the rate slowly decreased until a new, inhibited, steady state was obtained. When isocitrate was added last, the initial rate was almost zero, but the rate increased slowly until the same steady-state value was obtained. Glyoxylate and oxaloacetate gave competitive inhibition against isocitrate and uncompetitive inhibition against NADP+. Product-inhibition studies showed that isocitrate dehydrogenase obeys a compulsory-order mechanism, with coenzyme binding first. Glyoxylate and oxaloacetate bind to and dissociate from isocitrate dehydrogenase slowly. These observations can account for the shapes of the progress curves observed in the presence of the inhibitors. Condensation of glyoxylate and oxaloacetate produced an extremely potent inhibitor of isocitrate dehydrogenase. Analysis of the reaction by h.p.l.c. showed that this correlated with the formation of oxalomalate. This compound decomposed spontaneously in assay mixtures, giving 4-hydroxy-2-oxoglutarate, which was a much less potent inhibitor of the enzyme. Oxalomalate inhibited isocitrate dehydrogenase competitively with respect to isocitrate and was a very poor substrate for the enzyme. The data suggest that the inhibition of isocitrate dehydrogenase by glyoxylate and oxaloacetate is not physiologically significant.


1983 ◽  
Vol 215 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
R L Pajula

A kinetic analysis including initial-velocity and product-inhibition studies were performed with spermine synthase purified from bovine brain. The enzyme activity was assayed in the presence of 5′-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase as an auxiliary enzyme to prevent the accumulation of the inhibitory product, 5′-methylthioadenosine, and thus to obtain linearity of the reaction with time. Initial-velocity studies gave intersecting or converging linear double-reciprocal plots. No substrate inhibition by decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine was observed at concentrations up to 0.4 mM. Apparent Michaelis constants were 60 microM for spermidine and 0.1 microM for decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine. Spermine was a competitive product inhibitor with respect to decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine, but a mixed one with respect to the other substrate, spermidine. 5′-Methylthioadenosine showed a mixed inhibition with both substrates, predominantly competitive with respect to decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine and predominantly uncompetitive with respect to spermidine. The observed kinetic and inhibition patterns are consistent with a compulsory-order mechanism, where both substrates add to the enzyme before products can be released.


1989 ◽  
Vol 261 (3) ◽  
pp. 853-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
N D Priestley ◽  
J A Robinson

NAD+-dependent L-valine dehydrogenase was purified 180-fold from Streptomyces cinnamonensis, and to homogeneity, as judged by gel electrophoresis. The enzyme has an Mr of 88,000, and appears to be composed of subunits of Mr 41,200. The enzyme catalyses the oxidative deamination of L-valine, L-leucine, L-2-aminobutyric acid, L-norvaline and L-isoleucine, as well as the reductive amination of their 2-oxo analogues. The enzyme requires NAD+ as the only cofactor, which cannot be replaced by NADP+. The enzyme activity is significantly decreased by thiol-reactive reagents, although purine and pyrimidine bases, and nucleotides, do not affect activity. Initial-velocity and product-inhibition studies show that the reductive amination proceeds through a sequential ordered ternary-binary mechanism; NADH binds to the enzyme first, followed by 2-oxoisovalerate and NH3, and valine is released first, followed by NAD+. The Michaelis constants are as follows; L-valine, 1.3 mM; NAD+, 0.18 mM; NADH, 74 microM; 2-oxoisovalerate, 0.81 mM; and NH3, 55 mM. The pro-S hydrogen at C-4′ of NADH is transferred to the substrate; the enzyme is B-stereospecific. It is proposed that the enzyme catalyses the first step of valine catabolism in this organism.


1976 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
D F Brook ◽  
P J Large

1. Secondary-amine mono-oxygenase (proposed EC group 1.14.99.-) was partially purified from trimethylamine-grown Pseudomonas aminovorans by (NH4)2SO4 fractionation, gel filtration, hydrophobic chromatography on 5-aminopentylamino-Sepharose, and affinity chromatography on Sepharose-bound NADH. 2. Some problems in the affinity-chromatography step are discussed. 3. A steady-state kinetic analysis varying substrate, oxygen and electron-donor concentrations was performed, which, over the concentration range studied, gave a series of families of approximately parallel double-reciprocal plots. From secondary and tertiary plots, Michaelis constants of 0.160 mM, 0.086 mM and 0.121 mM were obtained for dimethylamine, NADPH and oxygen respectively. 4. Product-inhibition studies supported the postulated Hexa Uni Ping Pong (triple-transfer) reaction mechanism.


1994 ◽  
Vol 301 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Lyle ◽  
D H Geller ◽  
K Ng ◽  
J Stanczak ◽  
J Westley ◽  
...  

Biosynthesis of the activated sulphate donor adenosine 3′-phosphate 5′-phosphosulphate (PAPS) involves the sequential action of two enzyme activities. ATP-sulphurylase catalyses the formation of APS (adenosine 5′-phosphosulphate) from ATP and free sulphate, and APS is then phosphorylated by APS kinase to produce PAPS. Initial-velocity patterns for rat chondrosarcoma APS kinase indicate a single-displacement formal mechanism with KmAPS 76 nM and KmATP = 24 microM. Inhibition studies using analogues of substrates and products were carried out to determine the reaction mechanism. An analogue of PAPS, adenosine 3′-phosphate 5′-[beta-methylene]phosphosulphate, exhibited competitive inhibition with APS and non-competitive inhibition with ATP. An analogue of APS, adenosine 5′-[beta-methylene]phosphosulphate was also competitive with APS and non-competitive with ATP. Adenosine 5′-[beta gamma-imido]triphosphate showed competitive inhibition with respect to ATP and produced mixed-type inhibition, with a pronounced intercept effect and a small slope effect, with respect to APS. These results are in accord with the formulation of the predominant pathway as a steady-state ordered mechanism with APS as the leading substrate and PAPS as the final product released.


2007 ◽  
Vol 404 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Brendza ◽  
William Haakenson ◽  
Rebecca E. Cahoon ◽  
Leslie M. Hicks ◽  
Lavanya H. Palavalli ◽  
...  

The development of nematicides targeting parasitic nematodes of animals and plants requires the identification of biochemical targets not found in host organisms. Recent studies suggest that Caenorhabditis elegans synthesizes phosphocholine through the action of PEAMT (S-adenosyl-L-methionine:phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferases) that convert phosphoethanolamine into phosphocholine. Here, we examine the function of a PEAMT from C. elegans (gene: pmt-1; protein: PMT-1). Our analysis shows that PMT-1 only catalyses the conversion of phosphoethanolamine into phospho-monomethylethanolamine, which is the first step in the PEAMT pathway. This is in contrast with the multifunctional PEAMT from plants and Plasmodium that perform multiple methylations in the pathway using a single enzyme. Initial velocity and product inhibition studies indicate that PMT-1 uses a random sequential kinetic mechanism and is feedback inhibited by phosphocholine. To examine the effect of abrogating PMT-1 activity in C. elegans, RNAi (RNA interference) experiments demonstrate that pmt-1 is required for worm growth and development and validate PMT-1 as a potential target for inhibition. Moreover, providing pathway metabolites downstream of PMT-1 reverses the RNAi phenotype of pmt-1. Because PMT-1 is not found in mammals, is only distantly related to the plant PEAMT and is conserved in multiple parasitic nematodes of humans, animals and crop plants, inhibitors targeting it may prove valuable in human and veterinary medicine and agriculture.


1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Lyric ◽  
Isamu Suzuki

Kinetic studies were carried out on three enzymes purified from Thiobacillus thioparus: sulfite: cytochrome c oxidoreductase, thiosulfate-oxidizing enzyme, and adenosine-5′-phosphosulfate reductase. From the initial velocity and product inhibition studies a tentative kinetic mechanism was proposed for each enzyme reaction.


1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Rej ◽  
R E Vanderlinde

Abstract We examined the effects of temperature on the activity and steady-state kinetics of aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1), using purified human soluble (s-AspAT) and mitochondrial (m-AspAT) isoenzymes, human serum, and porcine s-AspAT. All enzymes obeyed similar linear Arrhenius relationships over the range 20-40 degrees C. Apparent energies of activation (52.3 kJ.mol-1) and ratios of activity between 30 and 37 degrees C (0.626) were identical for the human s- and m-AspAT. This ratio was 0.623 (SEM 0.004) for human sera; deviation from the predicted ratio by individual sera was within analytical error. Similar activity/temperature relationships were observed for porcine s-AspAT. The use of factors to convert AspAT activities at 30 and 37 degrees C influenced neither precision of measurement of frequency distributions of results. The apparent Michaelis constants for the human isoenzymes increased with temperature. The least-influenced Km was for 2-oxoglutarate and s-AspAT: K2-oxoglutarate was 0.24 mmol.L-1 at 25 degrees C and 0.29 mmol.L-1 at 37 degrees C; apparent enthalpy change for substrate binding (delta HS) was 12.1 kJ.mol-1. The largest variation was for 2-oxoglutarate and m-AspAT: K2-oxoglutarate was 0.46 mmol.L-1 at 25 degrees C and 1.02 mmol.L-1 at 37 degrees C; delta HS was 50.8 kJ.mol-1. Incubation of the human isoenzymes with substrate mixture (without 2-oxoglutarate) at 23 and 37 degrees C did not affect activity during 60 min if tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane buffer was used. When the isoenzymes were diluted to 10 nmol-L-1 (about 200 U.L-1) in buffer alone and incubated at 50 degrees C, m-AspAT activity was decreased by 20% after 120 min; the cytoplasmic enzyme was unaffected.


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