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In Escherichia coli K12 the biosynthetic pathway of lysine, methionine and threonine is characterized by three isofunctional aspartokinases and two homoserine dehydrogenases. A single polypeptide chain carries the threonine-sensitive aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase (AK I-HDH I), and a different polypeptide chain carries the methionine-repressible aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase (AK II-HDH II). Immuno-adsorbants prepared with rabbit antibodies against AK I-HDH I bind the lysine-sensitive aspartokinase (AK III), the AK II-HDH II, and the homoserine kinase (HSK), an enzyme of the threonine biosynthetic pathway. Saturation of the immunoadsorbant with AK I-HDH I results in a decreased binding capacity for the other enzymes. Displacement of bound AK III or HSK can be obtained with pure AK I-HDH I, showing that the affinity of the antibodies to homologous antigens is higher than to heterologous ones. Immunoadsorbants prepared with anti-HSK antibodies show the same type of recognition: binding of the three aspartkinases and a capacity to displace the heterologous antigens bound. Accordingly, the same antibodies, implicated in the binding of the homologous antigen, bind the other enzymes. None of the other enzymes of the pathway, or the other kinases tested are recognized by the two immunoadsorbants. It can be postulated that in E. coli K12, duplication of a common ancestor gene gave rise to the three aspartokinases and to the homoserine kinase; two of the genes coding for the aspartokinases fused with those coding for the homoserine dehydrogenases. Indicating that only few epitopes are shared by these enzymes, by conventional immuno-diffusion techniques no precipitation lines appeared with antibodies against AK I-HDH I and the other proteins.
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PMID:Immunological cross reactivity of four enzymes involved in the biosynthetic pathway of lysine, methionine and threonine in Escherichia coli K12. 6 12

The regulation of aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase has been studied in three Acetobacter and two Gluconobacter species. Both enzymes were regulated by feedback inhibition. Aspartokinase was inhibited by L-threonine and concertedly inhibited by L-threonine plus L-lysine. The homoserine dehydrogenase was NADP-specific and was inhibited by L-threonine. Separation of the two enzymes by ammonium sulphate fractionation was possible in Acetobacter peroxydans, A. rancens and Gluconobacter melanogenus but not in A. liquefaciens or G. oxydans.
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PMID:Regulation of aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase in acetic acid bacteria. 16 8

S-2-Aminoethyl cysteine (AEC) reduced both growth rate and final growth level of Serratia marcescens Sr41. The growth inhibition was completely reversed by lysine. AEC inhibited the activity of lysine-sensitive aspartokinase to a lesser extent than lysine. The AEC addition to the medium lowered not only the level of lysine-sensite aspartokinase but also those of homoserine dehydrogenase and threonine deaminase, whereas lysine repressed the aspartokinase alone. To select mutations releasing lysine-sensitive aspartokinase from feedback controls, AEC-resistant colonies were isolated from strains HNr31 and HNr53, both of which were previously found to excrete threonine on the minimal plates but not on the plates containing excess lysine. Two of 280 resistant colonies excreted large amounts of threonine. Strains AECr174 and AECr301, derived from strains HNr31 and HNr53, respectively, lacked both feedback inhibition and repression of lysine-sensitive aspartokinase. These strains produced about 7 mg of threonine per ml in the medium containing glucose and urea.
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PMID:Participation of lysine-sensitive aspartokinase in threonine production by S-2-aminoethyl cysteine-resistant mutants of Serratia marcescens. 23 91

Reduction in the amounts of activity of the first enzyme, aspartokinase (EC 2.7.2.4) and two branch-point enzymes, dihydrodipicolinic acid synthase (EC 4.2.1.52) and homoserine dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.3), located in the pathway for the synthesis of aspartate-family amino acids, occurred when cell suspension cultures of Daucus carota L. var. Danvers were grown in media containing 2 mM threonine or 2 mM lysine, endproducts of the pathway. Activity of the lysine-sensitive form of aspartokinase was decreased when cells were grown in medium containing lysine and the activity of the threonine-sensitive form was decreased when cells were grown in medium containing threonine. Activity of the branch-point enzyme leading to threonine synthesis, homoserine dehydrogenase, was decreased up to 70% in specific activity (units/mg protein) and relative activity (units/g fresh weight) when cells were grown in media containing lysine or threonine. Threonine had no effect on the relative activity of dihydrodipicolinic acid synthase, but decreased its specific activity. Lysine decreased the relative activity of the synthase by up to 40%, but had little effect on its specific activity. The decreased activities of the enzymes were apparently not due to binding of the inhibitory amino acids to the enzymes since homogenization of cells in buffer with 2 mM lysine and threonine did not decrease the measurable enzyme activities. These and other results presented suggest that both forms of the aspartokinase activity and homoserine dehydrogenase activity can be altered by supplementing the growth medium with lysine or threonine.
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PMID:Expression of aspartokinase, dihydrodipicolinic acid synthase and homoserine dehydrogenase during growth of carrot cell suspension cultures on lysine- and threonine-supplemented media. 23 96

A threonine-producing strain of Serratia marcescens Sr41 was constructed according to the following process. Thr- strain E-60 was derived from strain HNr59 having constitutive levels of threonine-sensitive aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase. Thr+ transductant T-570 was constructed from strain E-60 and phage grown on strain HNr21 having feedback-resistant threonine-sensitive aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase. This transductant lacked both feedback inhibition and repression for the two enzymes. Thr- strain N-11 was derived from strain AECr174 lacking feedback inhibition and repression of lysine-sensitive aspartokinase. Subsequently, the threonine region of strain T-570 was transduced into strain N-11. One of the THR+ transductants, strain T-693, produced markedly high levels of the two aspartokinases and homoserine dehydrogenase, which were insensitive to feedback inhibition. This strain produced about 25 mg of threonine per ml in the medium containing sucrose and urea.
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PMID:Transductional construction of a threonine-producing strain of Serratia marcescens. 39 67

A mutant of Salmonella typhimurium was selected for its spontaneous resistance to the lysine analog, thialysine (S-2-aminoethyl cysteine). This strain, JB585, exhibits a number of pleiotropic properties including a partial growth requirement for threonine, resistance to thiaisoleucine and azaleucine, excretion of lysine and valine, and inhibition of growth by methionine. Genetic studies show that these properties are caused by a single mutation in the thrA gene which encodes the threonine-controlled aspartokinase-homoserine dehydrogenase activities. Enzyme assays demonstrated that the aspartokinase activity is unstable and the threonine-controlled homoserine dehydrogenase activity absent in extracts prepared from the mutant. These results explain the growth inhibition by methionine because the remaining homoserine dehydrogenase isoenzyme would be repressed by methionine, causing a limitation for threonine. The partial growth requirement for threonine during growth in glucose minimal medium may also, by producing an isoleucine limitation, cause derepression of the isoleucine-valine enzymes and provide an explanation for both the valine excretion, and azaleucine and thiaisoleucine resistance. The overproduction of lysine may confer the thialysine resistance.
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PMID:Thialysine-resistant mutant of Salmonella typhimurium with a lesion in the thrA gene. 78 77

The hom-thrB operon (homoserine dehydrogenase/homoserine kinase) and the thrC gene (threonine synthase) of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13,032 and the homFBR (homoserine dehydrogenase resistant to feedback inhibition by threonine) alone as well as homFBR-thrB operon of C. glutamicum DM 368-3 were cloned separately and in combination in the Escherichia coli/C. glutamicum shuttle vector pEK0 and introduced into different corynebacterial strains. All recombinant strains showed 8- to 20-fold higher specific activities of homoserine dehydrogenase, homoserine kinase, and/or threonine synthase compared to the respective host. In wild-type C. glutamicum, amplification of the threonine genes did not result in secretion of threonine. In the lysine producer C. glutamicum DG 52-5 and in the lysine-plus-threonine producer C. glutamicum DM 368-3 overexpression of hom-thrB resulted in a notable shift of carbon flux from lysine to threonine whereas cloning of homFBR-thrB as well as of homFBR in C. glutamicum DM 368-3 led to a complete shift towards threonine or towards threonine and its precursor homoserine, respectively. Overexpression of thrC alone or in combination with that of homFBR and thrB had no effect on threonine or lysine formation in all recombinant strains tested.
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PMID:Amplification of three threonine biosynthesis genes in Corynebacterium glutamicum and its influence on carbon flux in different strains. 136 20

In Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Corynebacterium glutamicum, homoserine dehydrogenase (HD), the enzyme after the branch point of the threonine/methionine and lysine biosynthetic pathways, is allosterically inhibited by L-threonine. To investigate the regulation of the C. glutamicum HD enzyme by L-threonine, the structural gene, hom, was mutated by UV irradiation of whole cells to obtain a deregulated allele, homdr. L-Threonine inhibits the wild-type (wt) enzyme with a Ki of 0.16 mM. The deregulated enzyme remains 80% active in the presence of 50 mM L-threonine. The homdr gene mutant was isolated and cloned in E. coli. In a C. glutamicum wt host background, but not in E. coli, the cloned homdr gene is genetically unstable. The cloned homdr gene is overexpressed tenfold in C. glutamicum and is active in the presence of over 60 mM L-threonine. Sequence analysis revealed that the homdr mutation is a single nucleotide (G1964) deletion in codon 429 within the hom reading frame. The resulting frame-shift mutation radically alters the structure of the C terminus, resulting in ten amino acid (aa) changes and a deletion of the last 7 aa relative to the wt protein. These observations suggest that the C terminus may be associated with the L-threonine allosteric response. The homdr mutation is unstable and probably deleterious to the cell. This may explain why only one mutation was obtained despite repeated mutagenesis.
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PMID:A C-terminal deletion in Corynebacterium glutamicum homoserine dehydrogenase abolishes allosteric inhibition by L-threonine. 174 20

Some Bacillus subtilis mutants with different levels of homoserine dehydrogenase were described. Strains that do not accumulate methionine have a high homoserine dehydrogenase activity. Low activity was detected in mutants where cell growth was completely inhibited by 0.7 mmol/L methionine. A low concentration of dimethyl sulfoxide had a stimulatory effect on lysine production by the methionine-sensitive mutant of Bacillus subtilis.
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PMID:Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on lysine production by a mutant of Bacillus subtilis with homoserine dehydrogenase activity. 182 70

Rat liver 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3 alpha-HSD, EC 1.1.1.50) is an NAD(P)(+)-dependent oxidoreductase which will terminate androgen action by converting 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone to 3 alpha-androstanediol. It is identical to dihydrodiol dehydrogenase and it can function as a 9-, 11-, and 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase. Its reactions are potently inhibited by the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). A cDNA (2.1 kilobases) for 3 alpha-HSD was cloned from a rat liver cDNA expression library in lambda gt11. Portions of the cDNA insert which contained an internal EcoRI site were subcloned into pGEM3, and dideoxysequencing revealed that the cDNA contains an open reading frame of 966 nucleotides which encode a protein of 322 amino acids with a monomer Mr of 37,029. The identity of this clone was confirmed by locating two tryptic peptides and two endoproteinase Lys-C peptides from purified 3 alpha-HSD within the nucleotide sequence. The amino acid sequence of rat liver 3 alpha-HSD bears no significant homology with 3 beta-, 17 beta- or 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases but has striking homology with bovine lung prostaglandin F synthase (69% homology at the amino acid level and 74% homology at the nucleotide level) which is a member of the aldehyde/aldose reductase family. This sequence homology supports previous correlates which suggest that in rat 3 alpha-HSD may represent an important target for NSAIDs. The nucleotide sequence also contains three peptides that have been identified by affinity labeling with either 3 alpha-bromoacetoxyandrosterone (substrate analog) or 11 alpha-bromoacetoxyprogesterone (glucocorticoid analog) to comprise the active site (see accompanying article (Penning, T. M., Abrams, W. R., and Pawlowski, J. E. (1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 8826-8834]. The sequence data presented suggests that 3 alpha-HSD, prostaglandin F synthase, and aldehyde/aldose reductases are members of a common gene family.
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PMID:Cloning and sequencing of the cDNA for rat liver 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid/dihydrodiol dehydrogenase. 184 Jun 1


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