Biosynthesis of dicarboxylic acids by carbon dioxide fixation; isolation and properties of an enzyme from pigeon liver catalyzing the reversible oxidative decarboxylation of 1-malic acid.
Biosynthesis of dicarboxylic acids by carbon dioxide fixation; isolation and properties of an enzyme from pigeon liver catalyzing the reversible oxidative decarboxylation of 1-malic acid.
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10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55935-4
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1948-07
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S. Ochoa;A. Mehler;A. Kornberg
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S. Ochoa;A. Mehler;A. Kornberg
BIOSYNTHESIS OF DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS DIOXIDE FIXATION VI. ISOLATION OF MALIC AND York, BY CARBON ACID* KAUFMAN College BY SEVER0 OCHOA New SEYMOUR New York)(From the Department of Pharmacology,(Received New York University April 2, 1951) of Medicine, for publication, The biosynthesis of L-malic acid by reductive carboxylation of pyruvic acid has been previously described (1). Malate is readily formed, in the presence of pigeon liver" malic" enzyme and glucose phosphate dehydrogenase, as a result of the TPN-linked dismutation Glucose-6-phosphate+ pyruvate+ CO2 (TPN, Mn++)+ 6-phosphogluconate+ n-malate While in the previous work L-malic acid had been identified and determined by enzymatic methods (1)) it has now been isolated and identified chemically. Enzyme Reaction-The reaction mixture was as follows: glucoseB-phosphate, 10 mM; pyruvate, 10 mM; NaHC03, 15 mM; MnC&, 0.2 mM; triphosphopyridine nucleotide (TPN), 0.027 mM; glucose phosphate dehydrogenase, 1250 units; pigeon liver" malie" enzyme (2)) 8000 units. The volume was made up to 101 cc. with water and the solution equilibrated with a gas mixture containing 75 per cent carbon dioxide and 25 per cent nitrogen, bringing the pH to 7.0. The mixture was incubated with shaking at 25" for 4 hours. The course of the reaction was followed manometrically, on a 1.0 cc. aliquot of the above reaction mixture, as already described (1). In 4 hours, 3.15 mM of phosphogluconate were produced in 100 cc. of the main reaction mixture. At this time the solution was brought to pH 5.5 with 2.7 cc. of 10.0 N sulfuric acid, heated at 100" for 8 minutes, and then cooled in ice. The protein precipitate was removed by centrifugation. Since the crude preparation of glucose phosphate dehydrogenase used was contaminated with fumarase, the formation of a mixture of fumarate and n-malate was expected as a result of the reaction. Determination of* Aided by grants from the United States Public Health Service, the American Cancer Society (recommended by the Committee on Growth of the National Research Council), the Office of Naval Research, and the Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company. 313 This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license. 314 BIOSYNTHESIS OF DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS. VI the sum of the two dicarboxylic acids with Lactobacillus arabinosus" malic" enzyme in the presence of fumarase (1) showed that 2.56 mM (81 per cent of the phosphogluconate formed (cf.(1)) had been produced. Thus, 25 per cent of the pyruvate was converted to dicarboxylic acids. Isolation of L-Ma& A&--The solution, which was not quite proteinfree, was completely deproteinized with tungstic acid and filtered. An aliquot of the filtrate containing 1.95 mM of fumaric+ L-malic acid (or about 1.45 mM of n-malic acid if fumarase equilibrium had been established) was brought to pH 1.0 with sulfuric acid and extracted continuously with ether for 100 hours. The ether was evaporated, the residue taken up in water, and the volume made up to 25 cc. This solution contained 0.92 mM of n-malic acid, as determined spectrophotometrically with fumarase-free, pigeon liver" malic" enzyme (3), and 1.09 mu of pyruvic acid, as determined with lactic dehydrogenase (3). A 10 cc. aliquot of the above solution (-0.37 mu of n-malic acid) was lyophilized at pH 8.0 and chromatographed on a silica gel column as described in Paper V (4). 0.17 mM of malic acid was obtained. Cinchonine Salt-The cinchonine salt was prepared (5) on an aliquot of the effluent containing 0.1 mM of malic acid. 18.4 mg. of the crude salt were obtained. After one recrystallization from …