MECHANISM OF D-CYCLOSERINE ACTION - ALANINE RACEMASE FROM ESCHERICHIA-COLI W
MECHANISM OF D-CYCLOSERINE ACTION - ALANINE RACEMASE FROM ESCHERICHIA-COLI W
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.110.3.978-987.1972
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
NEUHAUS, FC
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作者:
LAMBERT, MP;NEUHAUS, FC
The antibioticd-cycloserine is an effective inhibitor of alanine racemase. The lack of inhibition byl-cycloserine of alanine racemase fromStaphylococcus aureusled Roze and Strominger to formulate the cycloserine hypothesis. This hypothesis states thatd-cycloserine has the conformation required of the substrates on the enzyme surface and thatl-cycloserine cannot have this conformation. Alanine racemase fromEscherichia coliW has been examined to establish whether these observations are a general feature of all alanine racemases. The enzyme (molecular weight = 95,000) has Michaelis-Menten constants of 4.6 × 10−4mand 9.7 × 10−4mford- andl-alanine, respectively. The ratio ofVmaxin thed- tol-direction is 2.3. The equilibrium constant calculated from the Haldane relationship is 1.11 ± 0.15. Bothd- andl-cycloserine are competitive inhibitors with constants (Ki) of 6.5 × 10−4mand 2.1 × 10−3m, respectively. The ratio ofKmd-alanine toKid-cycloserine is 0.71, and the ratio ofKml-alanine toKil-cycloserine is 0.46. Sincel-cycloserine is an effective inhibitor, it is concluded that the cycloserine hypothesis does not apply to the enzyme fromE. coliW.