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Heterotropic effectors promote a global conformational change in aspartate transcarbamoylase.

Abstract：

:The sigmoidal dependence of activity on substrate concentration exhibited by the regulatory enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase) of Escherichia coli is generally attributed to a ligand-promoted change in the quaternary structure of the enzyme. Although a global conformational change in ATCase upon the binding of ligands to some of the six active sites is well documented, a corresponding alteration in the structure of the wild-type enzyme upon the addition of the inhibitor, CTP, or the activator, ATP, has not been detected. Such evidence is essential for testing whether heterotropic, as well as homotropic, effects can be accounted for quantitatively in terms of coupled equilibria involving a conformational change in the enzyme and preferential binding of ligands to one conformation or the other. This evidence has now been obtained with a mutant form of ATCase in which Lys 143 in the regulatory chain was replaced by Ala, thereby perturbing interactions at the interface between the regulatory and catalytic chains in the enzyme and destabilizing the low-activity, compact (T) conformation relative to the high-activity, swollen (R) state. Difference sedimentation velocity experiments involving measurements of the changes caused by the binding of the bisubstrate analogue N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate demonstrated that the sedimentation coefficient of the mutant enzyme was intermediate between that observed for the T and R states of wild-type ATCase. We interpret the results as indicating that the [T]/[R] ratio in phosphate buffer at pH 7.0 is reduced from about 2 X 10(2) for the wild-type enzyme to 2.7 for r143Ala ATCase.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Eisenstein E,Markby DW,Schachman HK

doi

10.1021/bi00467a019

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-04-17 00:00:00

pages

3724-31

issue

15

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

journal_volume

29

pub_type

杂志文章

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