Implications of macromolecular crowding for signal transduction and metabolite channeling.

Abstract:

:The effect of different total enzyme concentrations on the flux through the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) in vitro was determined by measuring PTS-mediated carbohydrate phosphorylation at different dilutions of cell-free extract of Escherichia coli. The dependence of the flux on the protein concentration was more than linear but less than quadratic. The combined flux-response coefficient of the four enzymes constituting the glucose PTS decreased slightly from values of approximately 1.8 with increasing protein concentrations in the assay. Addition of the macromolecular crowding agents polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 and PEG 35000 led to a sharper decrease in the combined flux-response coefficient, in one case to values of approximately 1. PEG 6000 stimulated the PTS flux at lower protein concentrations and inhibited the flux at higher protein concentrations, with the transition depending on the PEG 6000 concentration. This suggests that macromolecular crowding decreases the dissociation rate constants of enzyme complexes. High concentrations of the microsolute glycerol did not affect the combined flux-response coefficient. The data could be explained with a kinetic model of macromolecular crowding in a two-enzyme group-transfer pathway. Our results suggest that, because of the crowded environment in the cell, the different PTS enzymes form complexes that live long on the time-scale of their turnover. The implications for the metabolic behavior and control properties of the PTS, and for the effect of macromolecular crowding on nonequilibrium processes, are discussed.

authors

Rohwer JM,Postma PW,Kholodenko BN,Westerhoff HV

doi

10.1073/pnas.95.18.10547

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-09-01 00:00:00

pages

10547-52

issue

18

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

95

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