PMID:210911
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Narindrasorasak, S and Bridger, WA (1978) Probes of the structure of phosphoenolpyruvate synthetase: effects of a transition state analogue on enzyme conformation. Can. J. Biochem. 56:816-9 |
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| Abstract |
Phosphoenolpyruvate synthetase of Escherichia coli is strongly inhibited by oxalate. The magnitude of the inhibition constant for oxalate suggests that this compound acts to produce a transition state analogue, in keeping with the suggestion of others that oxalate mimics the structure of enolpyruvate, a presumed catalytic intermediate in the enzymatic reaction. The addition of oxalate together with ATP results in a dramatic shielding of sensitive amino acid residues from reaction with both N-ethyl maleimide and phenylglyoxal. Thus, under conditions otherwise giving rise to almost complete inactivation by either reagent, no loss of activity is detectable in the presence of oxalate and ATP. These results indicate the formation of an enclosed structure during catalysis in which reactive groups are rendered quite inaccessible to solvent. |
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Adenosine Triphosphate/pharmacology; Ethylmaleimide/pharmacology; Glyoxal/pharmacology; Kinetics; Molecular Conformation; Oxalates/pharmacology; Phosphotransferases/metabolism; Pyruvate, Orthophosphate Dikinase/antagonists & inhibitors; Pyruvate, Orthophosphate Dikinase/metabolism |
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