PMID:2540841
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Mizote, T and Nakayama, H (1989) Purification and properties of hydroxymethylpyrimidine kinase from Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 991:109-13 |
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| Abstract |
Hydroxymethylpyrimidine kinase, which catalyzes the conversion of 2-methyl-4-amino-5-hydroxymethylpyrimidine (hydroxymethylpyrimidine) to its monophosphate, is purified about 3300-fold to apparent homogeneity from the cell-free extracts of E. coli K-12 through four successive steps of column chromatographies. The purified enzyme gave a single protein band on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and its molecular weight is estimated to be 43 000-44 000. The enzyme phosphorylated each of the pyridoxine substrates, pyridoxine, pyridoxal and pyridoxamine as well as hydroxymethylpyrimidine, and the reaction gave rise to a corresponding 5'-phosphate compound. The Km values of the purified enzyme for hydroxymethylpyrimidine and for pyridoxine are 1.1.10(-4) and 6.6.10(-5) M, respectively. Pyridoxine inhibits competitively the phosphorylation of hydroxymethylpyrimidine with a Ki value of 2.7.10(-6) M and hydroxymethylpyrimidine shows the same for that of pyridoxine with a Ki value of 9.0.10(-5) M. A similarity in enzymic properties between the hydroxymethylpyrimidine kinase and an enzyme which has been characterized as pyridoxal kinase leads to the assumption that both hydroxymethylpyrimidine and pyridoxine might be phosphorylated by the same enzyme species. |
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Cell-Free System; Chromatography, Gel; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Kinetics; Molecular Weight; Phosphorylation; Phosphotransferases/antagonists & inhibitors; Phosphotransferases/isolation & purification; Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); Pyridoxal/metabolism; Pyridoxal Kinase/isolation & purification; Pyridoxamine/metabolism; Pyridoxine/metabolism; Pyrimidines/metabolism |
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