PMID:13678294

Citation	Ravanal, MC, Goldie, H and Cardemil, E (2003) Thermal stability of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases from Escherichia coli, Trypanosoma brucei, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Protein Chem. 22:311-5
Abstract	The quaternary structure of ATP-dependent phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxykinases is variable. Thus, the carboxykinases from Escherichia coli, Trypanosoma brucei, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae are monomer, homodimer, and homotetramer, respectively. In this work, we studied the effect of temperature on the stability of the enzyme activity of these three carboxykinases, and have found that it follows the order monomer > dimer > tetramer. The inactivation processes are first order with respect to active enzyme. The presence of substrates leads to an increase in the thermal stability of all three PEP carboxykinases. The protection effect of the substrates on the thermal inactivation of these enzymes suggests similarities in the substrate-bound form of these proteins. We propose that the higher structural complexity of some PEP carboxykinases could be related to the acquisition of properties of relevance in vivo.
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Keywords	Animals; Dimerization; Enzyme Stability; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP)/chemistry; Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP)/metabolism; Protein Binding; Protein Structure, Quaternary; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology; Temperature; Time Factors; Trypanosoma brucei brucei/enzymology
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