PMID:9457846
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Bucurenci, N, Serina, L, Zaharia, C, Landais, S, Danchin, A and Bârzu, O (1998) Mutational analysis of UMP kinase from Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 180:473-7 |
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| Abstract |
UMP kinase from Escherichia coli is one of the four regulatory enzymes involved in the de novo biosynthetic pathway of pyrimidine nucleotides. This homohexamer, with no counterpart in eukarya, might serve as a target for new antibacterial drugs. Although the bacterial enzyme does not show sequence similarity with any other known nucleoside monophosphate kinase, two segments between amino acids 35 to 78 and 145 to 194 exhibit 28% identity with phosphoglycerate kinase and 30% identity with aspartokinase, respectively. Based on these similarities, a number of residues of E. coli UMP kinase were selected for site-directed mutagenesis experiments. Biochemical, kinetic, and spectroscopic analysis of the modified proteins identified residues essential for catalysis (Asp146), binding of UMP (Asp174), and interaction with the allosteric effectors, GTP and UTP (Arg62 and Asp77). |
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| Keywords |
Amino Acid Sequence; Catalysis; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Guanidine; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism; Guanosine Triphosphate/pharmacology; Kinetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/chemistry; Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/genetics; Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/isolation & purification; Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/metabolism; Protein Denaturation; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Temperature; Uridine Monophosphate/metabolism; Uridine Monophosphate/pharmacology; Uridine Triphosphate/metabolism; Uridine Triphosphate/pharmacology |
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