The thiamine pyrophosphatase technique as an indicator of the morphology of the Golgi apparatus in the neurons. 3. Studies on the olfactory bulb.
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Branched-chain 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase complex is inactivated by phosphorylation of the alpha-subunit of the E1 component of the complex. High-speed supernatant from rat liver mitochondria contains an activator protein which can restore activity to the phosphorylated complex without concomitant dephosphorylation [(1982) FEBS Lett. 147, 35-39]. We report here several lines of evidence which indicate that activator is the dissociated non-phosphorylated form of the E1 component.
The contribution of pyruvate to the formation of N6-acetyl-N6-hydroxylysine by a cell-free system of Aerobacter aerogenes 62-1 involved in the production of the dihydroxamate siderophore, aerobactin, has been assessed by a study of the influence of its analogs as well as of inhibitors of thiamine pyrophosphate-dependent decarboxylation reactions. These studies have provided unequivocal evidence for pyruvate functioning not only as a source of reducing equivalents in the initial step of N-hydroxylation of lysine but also as a precursor of the acetyl moiety in the subsequent conversion of the N-hydroxy amino to its N6-acetyl derivative.
Equilibrium binding experiments were carried out with lipoyl domains and the pyruvate decarboxylase [pyruvate dehydrogenase (lipoamide), E1p, EC 1.2.4.1)] component of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Escherichia coli. The dissociation constant (Ks) was estimated to be not less than 0.3 mM, exceeding the Km value (33 microM) for reductive acetylation of the domains by an order of magnitude. Thus, the lipoyl domain, which is required to promote reductive acetylation of the lipoyl group, does not appear to do this simply by enhancing the binding to E1p. The difference between Ks and Km suggests that the formation and release of reductively acetylated lipoyl domains from the enzyme may be a relatively rapid step in the mechanism.
Structure and activation pattern of pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) from yeast was studied by synchrotron radiation X-ray solution scattering. The results give a direct proof that the reversible deactivation of PDC at pH 8.0 is accompanied by the dissociation of the tetrameric holoenzyme into dimeric halves. The kinetics of this process was followed. At pH 6.5 the dimeric halves reassociate to a tetramer even in the absence of cofactors. The changes of the scattering pattern upon binding of the substrate-like activator pyruvamide indicate that the structure expands in the course of the enzyme activation.
A tryptophan residue at position 487 in Zymomonas mobilis pyruvate decarboxylase was altered to leucine by site-directed mutagenesis. This modified Z. mobilis pyruvate decarboxylase was active when expressed in Escherichia coli and had unchanged kinetics towards pyruvate. The enzyme showed a decreased affinity for the cofactors with the half-saturating concentrations increasing from 0.64 to 9.0 microM for thiamin diphosphate and from 4.21 to 45 microM for Mg2+. Unlike the wild-type enzyme, there was little quenching of tryptophan fluorescence upon adding cofactors to this modified form. The data suggest that tryptophan-487 is close to the cofactor binding site but is not required absolutely for pyruvate decarboxylase activity. Substitution of asparagine, threonine or glycine for aspartate-440, a residue which is conserved between many thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzymes, completely abolishes enzyme activity.
The crystal structure of the complex of transketolase and thiamine thiazolone diphosphate has been determined at 2.3 A resolution. The complex has a structure which closely resembles that of this enzyme with the cofactor ThDP. This is consistent with the observation that the binding of the analogue to transketolase involves ground state rather than transition state interactions. Since thiamine thiazolone diphosphate resembles an expected intermediate in the catalytic pathway, the structure of the intermediate was modelled from the crystal structure. Based on this model, enzymic groups responsible for binding of the intermediate and proton transfer during catalysis are suggested.
The mechanism of regulatory phosphorylation of the pyruvate dehydrogenase component (E1) of muscle pyruvate dehydrogenase complex was studied. Chemical modification of the arginine residues essential for substrate binding was shown to prevent incorporation of 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP into E1 catalyzed by kinase and to exclude completely the interaction of holo-E1 with pyruvate. It is proposed that negatively charged phosphoseryl residues may compete with pyruvate for the active site arginine and thereby block the substrate binding.
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