Abstract：
:Data has been published showing that in heterotetrameric liver mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase composed of the active (E487) and the inactive Oriental-variant (K487) subunit, the Oriental variant was dominant and caused the inactivation of the E487 subunit. The published structures of the enzyme showed that the glutamate at position 487 is salt bonded to an arginine (475) in a different subunit. Arg475 was mutated to a glutamine to test for its importance in causing the Oriental variant to be an enzyme with a high Km for NAD and a low specific activity. Unexpectedly, the R475Q mutant exhibited positive cooperativity in NAD binding with a Hill coefficient of 2. Individual heterotetramers composed of subunits of E487 and K487 were produced by making changes to two residues on the surface of the enzyme and then co-expressing both cDNAs in E. coli. The E(3)K form had essentially 50% the activity of the E(4) homotetrameric form while EK(3) had essentially the same properties as did the homotetrameric K(4) Oriental variant. This showed that in a dimer pair composed of one K- and one E- subunit the K-subunit became dominant and caused the inactivation of its E-partner. Further, pre-steady state burst data and steady state kinetic data make it appear that there was one functioning active subunit in each of the dimer pairs that made up the tetrameric enzyme. Thus, the half-of-the-site reactivity is a result of having one functioning and one non-functioning subunit in each dimer pair. The actual structural basis for this is still not understood, but could be related to the E487-R475 inter-dimer salt bond.
journal_name
Chem Biol Interactjournal_title
Chemico-biological interactionsauthors
Weiner H,Wei B,Zhou Jdoi
10.1016/s0009-2797(00)00221-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-01-30 00:00:00pages
47-56issue
1-3eissn
0009-2797issn
1872-7786pii
S0009279700002210journal_volume
130-132pub_type
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