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Query: EC:1.2.1.13 (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase)
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We have determined the amounts of a number of small molecules and enzymes in the mother cell compartment and the developing forespore during sporulation of Bacillus megaterium. Significant amounts of adenosine 5'-triphosphate and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide were present in the forespore compartment before accumulation of dipicolinic acid (DPA), but these compounds disappeared as DPA was accumulated. 3-Phosphoglyceric acid (3-PGA) accumulated only within the developing forespore, beginning 1 to 2 h before DPA accumulation. Throughout its development the forespore contained constant levels of enzymes of both 3-PGA synthesis (phosphoglycerate kinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase) and 3-PGA utilization (phosphoglycerate mutase, enolase, and pyruvate kinase) at levels similar to those in the mother cell and the dormant spore. Despite the presence of enzymes for 3-PGA utilization, this compound was stable within isolated forespores. Two acid-soluble proteins (A and B proteins) also accumulated only in the forespore, beginning 1 to 2 h before DPA accumulation. At this time the specific protease involved in degradation of the A and B proteins during germination also appeared, but only in the forespore compartment. Nevertheless, the A and B proteins were stable within isolated forespores. Arginine and glutamic acid accumulated within the forespore in parallel with DPA accumulation. The forespore also contained the enzyme arginase at a level similar to that in the mother cell and a level of glutamic acid decarboxylase 2- to 25-fold higher than that in the mother cell, depending on when in sporulation the forespores were isolated. The specific activities of several other enzymes (protease active on hemoglobin, ornithine transcarbamylase, malate dehydrogenase, aconitase, and isocitrate dehydrogenase) in forespores were about 10% or less of the values in the mother cell. Aminopeptidase was present at similar levels in both compartments; threonine deaminase was not found in either compartment.
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PMID:Levels of small molecules and enzymes in the mother cell compartment and the forespore of sporulating Bacillus megaterium. 19 30

The time course of the conversion of 3-phospho-D-glycerate (GriP) to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (GraP) catalyzed by 3-phospho-D-glycerate kinase (GriP kinase) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GraPDH) couple has been reinvestigated. The dependence of the steady-state rate on the dehydrogenase concentration is fully compatible with the consecutive nature of the reaction and therefore is not necessarily related to a complex formation of the two enzymes. To derive a Kd value of a bienzyme complex, as was done by Sukhodolets et al. [Sukhodolets, M. V., Muronetz, V. I. & Nagradova, N. K. (1987) Biochem. Int. 15, 373-379], is basically erroneous. In contrast with some previous reports, the maximal activity of GriP kinase is not influenced by the auxiliary enzyme present in the coupled assay system. Thus, no special accelerating effect can be attributed to GraPDH. 1,3-Bisphospho-D-glycerate (GriP2) bound to GriP kinase does not seem to be a substrate for GraPDH, providing evidence against channelling of GriP2 between the two enzymes.
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PMID:Kinetic misinterpretation of a coupled enzyme reaction can lead to the assumption of an enzyme-enzyme interaction. The example of 3-phospho-D-glycerate kinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase couple. 239 Sep 92

To localise the controlling point of the glycolytic system, the temporal changes in concentrations of glycolytic intermediates have been analysed after addition of glycogen to a substrate-depleted yeast extract. Three sequential metabolic states are clearly observable: a transition state at which there is continuous accumulation of the intermediates before the glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, EC 1.2.1.12) step; a stationary state with all glycolytic intermediates having concentrations oscillating at nearly stationary mean values; and a depletion state at which the intermediates before the GAPDH step are being depleted due to the exhaustion of glycogen. In all these states, the mean ethanol production rate and the concentration of ATP and the intermediates beyond the GAPDH-step are maintained fairly constant, while the glycogen consumption rate and intermediate concentrations of the upper part of the glycolytic system changes considerably: the glycogen consumption rate varies 4-fold and fructose-bis-phosphate concentration more than 10-fold. Doubling of the initial glycogen concentration and the addition of a great excess of fructose-bis-phosphate do not affect the ethanol production rate and the mean glycerate-3-phosphate (3-PGA) and pyruvate levels. By contrast, ethanol production was accelerated by an increase of the net ATP consumption rate resulting from either the addition of apyrase or by substitution of trehalose for glycogen. Neither the mean absolute ATP level nor the adenylate energy charge were measurably affected, however, all this data can be interpreted in terms of a very strong stoichiometric regulation and stabilization of the lower part of the glycolytic system.
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PMID:Flux regulation in glycogen-induced oscillatory glycolysis in cell-free extracts of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis. 708 84

The structure of the key glycolytic enzyme 3-phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) is known in detail, but there is little information on its reaction pathway. We have studied its equilibrium and transient kinetics in the direction of 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate (1,3-bis-P-glycerate) production: ATP + 3-P-glycerate<==>ADP + 1,3-bis-P-glycerate. We devised a sensitive method for following this production. PGK is mixed with 3-P-glycerate and [gamma-32P]ATP in a rapid flow quench apparatus. The reaction mixtures are aged for 4 ms or more and then quenched in acid in which any [1-32P]-1,3-P-glycerate decomposes to 3-P-glycerate and 32Pi, which is determined specifically. The Pi reflects accurately the 1,3-bis-P-glycerate in the original reaction mixture, and the kcat obtained is identical to that obtained by the conventional linked assay method with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. This does not support the postulate of a rapid direct transfer of the 1,3-bis-P-glycerate between the kinase and the dehydrogenase [Srivastava, D. K., & Bernhard, S. A. (1986) Science 234, 1081-1086]. We fitted our data to a simple scheme with the formation of binary complexes, the interconversion of substrates to products via ternary complexes, and the release of products. Because of the high turnover of PGK, the work was carried out under cryoenzymic conditions with 40% ethylene glycol in the buffer. The glycol decreased kcat from 80 to 8.5 s-1 (pH 7.5, 4 degrees C), but the Km for 3-P-glycerate and ATP and the equilibrium constants in the scheme were little affected. We carried out two types of experiment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Transient and equilibrium kinetic studies on yeast 3-phosphoglycerate kinase. Evidence that an intermediate containing 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate accumulates in the steady state. 782 41

A cDNA fragment containing the Pisum sativum GapN gene, which encodes the non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, was cloned in a prokaryote expression vector. This construct enabled Escherichia coli strain W3CG, a mutant which lacks the glycolytic phosphorylating G3P dehydrogenase, to grow aerobically on sugars. The functionally complemented mutant exhibited high levels of the catalytically active plant enzyme, which renders 3-phosphoglycerate and NADPH, thus bypassing the first substrate level phosphorylation step of the glycolysis. As expected if such a glycolytic bypass would be operative in vivo, this clone failed to grow anaerobically on sugars in contrast to W3CG clones complemented with phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases. According to the irreversible catabolic character of the non-phosphorylating reaction, the GapN-complemented clone was unable to grow on gluconeogenic substrates. This metabolic engineering approach demonstrates that a pure catabolic Embden-Meyerhof pathway with no net energy yield is feasible.
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PMID:Engineering a central metabolic pathway: glycolysis with no net phosphorylation in an Escherichia coli gap mutant complemented with a plant GapN gene. 1033 22

Rate studies using phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK)--glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) enzyme pair have been carried out to distinguish between the two mechanisms of intermediate metabolite transfer, namely diffusion through the solvent versus "substrate channelling" within an enzyme-enzyme complex. A procedure has been described for the assay of the rates of PGK-catalysed and the PGK-GPDH coupled reactions at high (saturating) GPDH concentration. With PGKs of rabbit muscle and yeast, the coupled reaction proceeded faster than the PGK-catalysed reaction. At a high salt concentration (0.5 M KCl), where a PGK-GPDH complex is known to dissociate, the two reactions proceeded at almost equal rates. At fixed PGK concentration, the rate of the coupled reaction at high (saturating) GPDH concentration varied with the nature (biological origin) of the latter enzyme. In the presence of 0.5 M KCl, the saturating rate values with different GPDHs were almost equal. The PGK-catalysed reaction exhibited typical Michaelian behaviour on varying the substrate concentrations (linear double reciprocal plots). The Km values for 3-PGA (0.51 mM) and ATP (0.40 mM) were independent of the concentration of the second substrate. The double reciprocal plots for the coupled reaction showed downward curvature, i.e. activation at higher substrate concentrations. The ratio of the rate of the coupled reaction: the rate of the PGK catalysed reaction was found to be a function of the nature of PGK, nature of GPDH, nature of buffer, pH, salt concentration and substrate concentrations. The ratio varied between close to unity at low substrate concentrations, to three when the Vmax values of the two reactions were compared. At low substrate concentrations, the rate of the coupled reaction became independent of the nature of GPDH. It has been suggested that in the PGK-GPDH pair, the intermediate metabolite (BPG) is transferred directly from one enzyme to the other within an enzyme-enzyme complex, except at high salt or low substrate concentrations. Under the latter conditions, data were consistent with metabolite transfer by diffusion. Implications of these results for coupled enzyme assays have been discussed.
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PMID:Phosphoglycerate kinase--glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase interaction: reaction rate studies. 1054 68

Tetrameric phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from Bacillus stearothermophilus has been described as a "dimer of dimers" with three nonequivalent interfaces, P-axis (between subunits O and P and between subunits Q and R), Q-axis (between subunits O and Q and between subunits P and R), and R-axis interface (between subunits O and R and between subunits P and Q). O-P dimers, the most stable and the easiest to generate, have been created by selective disruption of hydrogen bonds across the R- and Q-axis interfaces by site-directed mutagenesis. Asp-186 and Ser-48, and Glu-276 and Tyr-46, which are hydrogen bond partners across the R- and Q-axis interfaces, respectively, have been replaced with glycine residues. All mutated residues are highly conserved among GAPDHs from different species and are located in loops. Both double mutants D186G/E276G and Y46G/S48G were dimeric, while all single mutants remained tetrameric. As previously described [Clermont, S., Corbier, C., Mely, Y., Gerard, D., Wonacott, A., and Branlant, G. (1993) Biochemistry 32, 10178-10184], NAD binding to wild type GAPDH (wtGAPDH) was interpreted according to the induced-fit model and exhibited negative cooperativity. However, NAD binding to wtGAPDH can be adequately described in terms of two independent dimers with two interacting binding sites in each dimer. Single mutants D186G, E276G, and Y46G exhibited behavior in NAD binding similar to that of the wild type, while both dimeric mutants D186G/E276G and Y46G/S48G exhibited positive cooperativity in binding the coenzyme NAD. The fact that O-P dimer mutants retained cooperative behavior shows that (1) the P-axis interface is important in transmitting the information induced upon NAD binding inside the O-P dimer from one subunit to the other and (2) the S-loop of the R-axis-related subunit is not directly involved in cooperative binding of NAD in the O-P dimer. In both O-P dimer mutants, the absorption band of the binary enzyme-NAD complex had a highly decreased intensity compared to that of the wild type and, in addition, totally disappeared in the presence of G3P or 1,3-dPG. However, no enzymatic activity was detected, indicating that the formed ternary enzyme-NAD-G3P or -1, 3-dPG complex was not catalytically efficient. In the O-P dimers, the interaction with the S-loop of the R-axis-related subunit is disrupted, and therefore, the S-loop should be less structured. This resulted in increased accessibility of the active site to the solvent, particularly for the adenosine-binding site of NAD. Thus, together, this is likely to explain both the lowered affinity of the dimeric enzyme for NAD and the absence of activity.
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PMID:Dimers generated from tetrameric phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Bacillus stearothermophilus are inactive but exhibit cooperativity in NAD binding. 1058 31

Clostridium acetobutylicum gapN was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL-21. The IPTG-induced nonphosphorylating NADP-dependent GAPDH (GAPN) has been purified about 34-fold from E. coli cells and its physical and kinetic properties were investigated. The purification method consisted of a rapid and straightforward procedure involving anion-exchange and hydroxyapatite chromatographies. The purified protein is an homotetrameric of 204kDa exhibiting absolute specificity for NADP. Chromatofocusing analysis showed the presence of only one acidic GAPN isoform with an acid isoelectric point of 4.2. The optimum pH of purified enzyme was 8.2. Studies on the effect of assay temperature on enzyme activity revealed an optimal value of about 65 degrees C with activation energy of 18KJmol(-1). The apparent K(m) values for NADP and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (D-G3P) or DL-G3P were estimated to be 0.200+/-0.05 and 0.545+/-0.1 mM, respectively. No inhibition was observed with L-D3P. The V(max) of the purified protein was estimated to be 78.8 U mg(-1). The Cl. acetobutylicum GAPN was markedly inhibited by sulfhydryl-modifying reagent iodoacetamide, these results suggest the participation of essential sulfhydryl groups in the catalytic activity.
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PMID:Expression, purification, and characterization of recombinant nonphosphorylating NADP-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Clostridium acetobutylicum. 1218 34

The crystal structure of the phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from Bacillus stearothermophilus was solved in complex with its cofactor, NAD, and its physiological substrate, D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (D-G3P). To isolate a stable ternary complex, the nucleophilic residue of the active site, Cys(149), was substituted with alanine or serine. The C149A and C149S GAPDH ternary complexes were obtained by soaking the crystals of the corresponding binary complexes (enzyme.NAD) in a solution containing G3P. The structures of the two binary and the two ternary complexes are presented. The D-G3P adopts the same conformation in the two ternary complexes. It is bound in a non-covalent way, in the free aldehyde form, its C-3 phosphate group being positioned in the P(s) site and not in the P(i) site. Its C-1 carbonyl oxygen points toward the essential His(176), which supports the role proposed for this residue along the two steps of the catalytic pathway. Arguments are provided that the structures reported here are representative of a productive enzyme.NAD.D-G3P complex in the ground state (Michaelis complex).
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PMID:Crystal structure of two ternary complexes of phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Bacillus stearothermophilus with NAD and D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. 1256

Streprococcus pyogenes gapN was cloned and expressed by functional complementation of the Escherichia gap mutant W3CG. The IPTG-induced NADP non-phosphorylating GAPDH (GAPN) has been purified about 75.4 fold from E. coli cells, using a procedure involving conventional ammonium sulfate fractionation, anion-exchange chromatography, hydrophobic chromatography and hydroxyapatite chromatography. The purified protein was characterised: it's an homotetrameric structure with a native molecular mass of 224 kDa, have an acid pI of 4.9 and optimum pH of 8.5. Studies on the effect of assay temperature on enzyme activity revealed an optimal value of about 60 degrees C with activation energy of 51 KJ mole(-1). The apparent Km values for NADP and D-G3P or DL-G3P were estimated to be 0.385 +/- 0.05 and 0.666 +/- 0.1 mM, respectively and the Vmax of the purified protein was estimated to be 162.5 U mg(-1). The S. pyogenes GAPN was markedly inhibited by sulfydryl-modifying reagent iodoacetamide, these results suggest the participation of essential sulfydryl groups in the catalytic activity.
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PMID:Purification of recombinant non-phosphorylating NADP-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Streptococcus pyogenes expressed in E. coli. 1284 48


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