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(1) An unusual accumulation of S-adenosyl-L-methionine in Chromatium D was associated with a marked growth inhibition by L-methionine. The inhibition was overcome by L-isoleucine, L-leucine, L-phyenylalanine, L-threonine, L-valine and putrescien. Based on their effects, these compounds are classified into 3 types. (2) L-Isoleucine, L-leucine, L-phyenylalanine and L-valine (Type I) inhibited the L-methionine uptake and consequently prevented the bacterium from the unusual accumulation of S-adenosyl-L-methionine even in the presence of L-methionine in the medium. Putrescine (Type II) stimulated the consumption of S-adenosyl-L-methionine, but did not influence the L-methionine uptake. Hence, the effect of putrescine would be explained by the action to diminish the intracellular level of S-adenosyl-L-methionine. L-Threonine (Type III) neither inhibited the L-methionine uptake nor affected the content of S-adenoxyl-L-methionine due to the addition of L-methionine. (3) The specific activity of homoserine kinase (EC 2.7.1.39) was greatly lowered by the addition of L-methionine under conditions in which Chromatium D unusually accumulates S-adenoxyl-L-methionine. Homoserine dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.3) activity was inhbitied by S-adenosyl-L-methionine (50% inhibition index, 3.5 mM). These facts strongly suggest that the growth inhibition by L-methionine is associated with the L-threonine deficiency caused by the unusual accumulation of S-adenosyl-L-methionine.
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PMID:Mechanism of inhibition of Chromatium D growth by L-methionine. Regulation of L-threonine biosynthesis by the intracellular level of S-adenosylmethionine. 0 2

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

Serratia marcescens Sa-3 possesses two homoserine dehydrogenases and neither has any aspartokinase activity unlike the case of Escherichia coli enzymes. The two enzymes have been separated. One of them is active with either NAD+ or NADP+ and has been purified about 180-fold to homogeneity. This enzyme is completely repressed by the presence of 1 mM methionine or homoserine in the growth medium, but its activity is unaffected by any amino acid of the aspartate family either singly or together. In many of its properties (such as pH optimum, Km for substrate and cofactors), it resembles its counterpart in E. coli K12. Potassium ions stabilize the enzyme but are not essential for activity. Its molecular weight is around 155,000 as determined by gel filtration and approximately 76,000 by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This suggests that the enzyme has two subunits (polypeptide chains) in the molecule: 8 M urea has no effect on enzyme activity. This enzyme represents approximately 30% of the total homoserine dehydrogenase activity of S. marcescens unlike in Salmonella typhimurium and E. coli K12 where it is a minor or a negligible component.
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PMID:Methionine-repressible homoserine dehydrogenase of Serratia marcescens: purification and properties. 18 74

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

LH is required to maintain the activity of 3 beta-hydroxysteriod dehydrogenase/delta 5----4-isomerase (3 beta HSD) in testicular Leydig cells. The objective of the present study was to determine whether LH and effectors such as forskolin, which act via the intracellular cAMP signal transduction pathway, can regulate the expression of 3 beta HSD in rat Leydig cells in vitro. Primary cultures of Leydig cells were prepared from testes of adult rats and treated with oLH, forskolin, (Bu)2cAMP, or cholera toxin. The effects of treatment on 3 beta HSD activity were measured using [3 alpha-3H]dehydroepiandrosterone as substrate. Immunoreactive 3 beta HSD was quantified by denaturing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting with a polyclonal antiserum against 3 beta HSD. The synthesis of 3 beta HSD was quantified after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of immunoprecipitated cellular lysates of Leydig cells radiolabeled with L-[35S]methionine. The levels of 3 beta HSD mRNA were quantified by Northern analysis and hybridization with a cDNA encoding testicular 3 beta HSD (rat type I). A cell-free protein-synthesizing system was used to test the ability of 3 beta HSD mRNA to be translated into immunoreactive 3 beta HSD. 3 beta HSD activity increased 3.5- and 5.0-fold in Leydig cell cultures treated with forskolin (1 microM) and (Bu)2cAMP (1 mM), respectively, compared with control cultures. Maximal activity was attained after 48-72 h and maintained through 120 h of treatment. The increase in 3 beta HSD activity could be accounted for quantitatively by increases in the steady state levels and the rates of synthesis of 3 beta HSD. The cellular levels of immunoreactive 3 beta HSD increased 4.0- and 7.6-fold in Leydig cells treated with forskolin and (Bu)2cAMP, respectively. Moreover, both of these effectors increased by 6- to 8-fold the levels of newly synthesized 3 beta HSD after 24-72 h of treatment. Ovine LH, forskolin, cholera toxin, and (Bu)2cAMP increased the cellular levels of 3 beta HSD mRNA in a dose-dependent manner. The magnitude of the increases ranged from 2- to 42-fold, compared with that in control cultures, after 12 h of treatment. Maximal responses were effected by 1 ng/ml ovine LH, 1 microM forskolin, 1 ng/ml cholera toxin, and 1 mM (Bu)2cAMP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Expression of testicular 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/delta 5----4-isomerase: regulation by luteinizing hormone and forskolin in Leydig cells of adult rats. 131 36

An antifungal antibiotic (S) 2-amino-4-oxo-5-hydroxypentanoic acid, inhibited the biosynthesis of the aspartate family of amino acids (methionine, isoleucine and threonine) followed by the inhibition of protein biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This inhibition was effected by impeding the biosynthesis of their common intermediate precursor, homoserine. The inhibition of biosynthesis of homoserine by the antibiotic was attributable to inactivation of homoserine dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.3], which is involved in the conversion of aspartate semialdehyde to homoserine in the metabolic pathway leading to threonine, methionine and isoleucine. Since such enzymic activity is not present in animal cells, the selective antifungal activity of the antibiotic is thus explained.
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PMID:Mechanism of action of an antifungal antibiotic, RI-331, (S) 2-amino-4-oxo-5-hydroxypentanoic acid; kinetics of inactivation of homoserine dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 135 15

Different strains of Corynebacterium glutamicum, Brevibacterium flavum, and Brevibacterium lactofermentum were analysed for restriction fragment length polymorphism using the homoserine dehydrogenase gene (hom) as a probe. The hybridization patterns obtained PvuII- or Asp700-restriction of chromosomal DNA were specific and distinguishable for each of the three species and identical for the different strains of each species. Thus, the method employed allows rapid distinction of Corynebacterium glutamicum, Brevibacterium flavum, and Brevibacterium lactofermentum. The former species could also be discriminated from the latter two by its resistance to 0.5 g/l of the methionine analog ethionine.
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PMID:Discrimination of Corynebacterium glutamicum, Brevibacterium flavum and Brevibacterium lactofermentum by restriction pattern analysis of DNA adjacent to the hom gene. 168 8

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

We have explored the mechanism by which an antifungal antibiotic, (S)-2-amino-4-oxo-5-hydroxypentanoic acid, RI-331, preferentially inhibits protein biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by inhibiting the biosynthesis of the aspartate family of amino acids, methionine, isoleucine and threonine. This inhibition was effected by inhibiting the biosynthesis of their common intermediate precursor homoserine. The target enzyme of RI-331 was homoserine dehydrogenase (EC.1.1.1.3) which is involved in converting aspartate semialdehyde to homoserine in the pathway from aspartate to homoserine. The enzyme is lacking in animals. So the antibiotic is selectively toxic to prototrophic fungi.
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PMID:The mechanism of antifungal action of (S)-2-amino-4-oxo-5-hydroxypentanoic acid, RI-331: the inhibition of homoserine dehydrogenase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 197 Jul 30


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