RACEMIZATION OF ALANINE BY THE ALANINE RACEMASES FROM SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM AND BACILLUS-STEAROTHERMOPHILUS - ENERGETIC REACTION PROFILES
RACEMIZATION OF ALANINE BY THE ALANINE RACEMASES FROM SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM AND BACILLUS-STEAROTHERMOPHILUS - ENERGETIC REACTION PROFILES
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00409a022
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发表时间:
1988-05-03
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
WALSH, CT
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作者:
FARACI, WS;WALSH, CT
Alanine racemases are bacterial pyridoxal 5''-phosphate (PLP) dependent enzymes providing D-alanine as an essential building block for biosynthesis of the peptidoglycan layer of the cell wall. Two isozymic alanine racemases, encoded by the dadB gene and the alr gene, from the Gram-negative mesophilic Salmonella typhimurium and one from the Gram-positive thermophlic Bacillus stearothermophilus have been examined for the racemization mechanism. Substrate deuterium isotope effects and solvent deuterium isotope effects have been measured in both L .fwdarw. D and D .fwdarw. L directions for all three enzymes to assess the degree to which abstraction of the .alpha.-proton or protonation of substrate PLP carbanion is limiting in catalysis. Additionally, experiments measuring internal return of .alpha.-3H from substrate to product and solvent exchange/substrate conversion experiments in 3H2O have been used with each enzyme to examine the partitioning of substrate PLP carbanion intermediates and to obtain the relative heights of kinetically significant energy barriers in alanine racemase catalysis.