PMID:3516219
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Karsten, WE, Gates, RB and Viola, RE (1986) Kinetic studies of L-aspartase from Escherichia coli: substrate activation. Biochemistry 25:1299-303 |
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| Abstract |
The enzyme L-aspartase from Escherichia coli was observed to have a time lag during the production of aspartic acid from fumarate and ammonia. This time lag is pH dependent, with little lag observed below pH 7.0 and a very extensive lag observed above pH 8.0. This time lag was also found to be dependent on both substrate and divalent metal ion concentrations and on the degree of proteolysis of L-aspartase. The observed lag, in the reaction examined in the amination direction, has been found to be correlated with the nonlinear kinetics seen at higher pH in the deamination direction. Both phenomena are consistent with a model in which there is a separate activator site for the substrate, L-aspartic acid, that is distinct from the enzyme active site. Occupation of this site by the substrate, or by various substrate analogues, eliminates both the nonlinearity and the time lag. The D isomer of aspartic acid, which does not bind at the active site, can bind at this newly identified activator site. |
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Ammonia-Lyases/metabolism; Aspartate Ammonia-Lyase/isolation & purification; Aspartate Ammonia-Lyase/metabolism; Aspartic Acid/pharmacology; Enzyme Activation; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Kinetics; Stereoisomerism; Trypsin |
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