Publication Date:
1990-08-31
Description:
The isocitrate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli is regulated by covalent modification at the active site rather than, as expected, at an allosteric site. As a means of evaluating the mechanism of regulation, the kinetics of the substrate, 2R,3S-isocitrate, and a substrate analog, 2R-malate, were compared for the native, phosphorylated, and mutant enzymes. Phosphorylation decreases activity by more than a factor of 10(6) for the true substrate, but causes minor changes in the activity of the substrate analog. The kinetic results indicate that electrostatic repulsion and steric hindrance between the phosphoryl moiety and the gamma carboxyl group of 2R,3S-isocitrate are the major causes of the inactivation, with a lesser contribution from the loss of a hydrogen bond.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dean, A M -- Koshland, D E Jr -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Aug 31;249(4972):1044-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2204110" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Allosteric Site
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Escherichia coli/*enzymology/genetics
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Isocitrate Dehydrogenase/genetics/*metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Mutation
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Protein Conformation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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