PYRUVATE-CARBOXYLASE FROM THIOBACILLUS-NOVELLUS - PROPERTIES AND POSSIBLE FUNCTION
PYRUVATE-CARBOXYLASE FROM THIOBACILLUS-NOVELLUS - PROPERTIES AND POSSIBLE FUNCTION
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DOI:
10.1139/m84-081
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
WILLER, DW
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作者:
CHARLES, AM;WILLER, DW
Pyruvate carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.1) from T. novellus (ATCC 8093) was highly purified and had a pH optimum of 7.6, a temperature optimum of 25.degree.-35.degree. C and a requirement for a monovalent and a divalent cation and a CoA derivative for maximum activity. These were best served by K+, Mg2+ and acetyl-CoA. Km values for pyruvate, ATP, HCO3- and Mg2+ were 0.25, 0.04, 0.27 and 0.44 mM, respectively. Initial velocity plots of increasing acetyl-CoA concentrations gave a sigmoidal curve with Ka of 4.2 .mu.M and Hill coefficients of 2.2. Plots of fixed acetyl-CoA concentrations against varying concentrations of pyruvate, ATP or CO2 all gave rectangular hyperbolae. Apart from end products, only hydropyruvic acid was inhibitory. The enzyme was very sensitive to mercurials. This enzyme is not believed to serve an anaplerotic function because of the simultaneous presence of the highly regulated phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in the organism. It may function to supply oxaloacetate to the citrate cycle or as part of the system that provides reduced NADP+.