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Query: EC:1.4.1.2 (glutamate dehydrogenase)
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The rate of the depolymerization of beef liver glutamate dehydrogenase induced by coenzyme and the purine nucleotides guanosine 5'-diphosphate and guanosine 5'-triphosphate, which are potent inhibitors of enzymatic activity, has been measured by rapid light scattering techniques and by absorbancy changes with stop flow. It is shown that the rate constant for this process may vary from several milliseconds to several seconds depending upon the nucleotides used. The widely varying rate constants for the nucleotide-induced depolymerization may serve a role in determining the nature of the regulation of enzyme activity by nucleotides. Depolymerization induced by guanosine 5'-diphosphate in the presence of diphosphopyridine nucleotide is slower than in the presence of triphosphopyridine nucleotide as coenzyme, and this difference is apparently due to the isomerization of the enzyme as a result of diphosphopyridine nucleotide binding to a second, nonactive site. This binding, as well as binding of the coenzyme to the active site, may be conveniently measured by a purine nucleotide-induced spectral shift in the coenzyme absorption spectrum. It is also shown that complete depolymerization of the enzyme in the presence of guanosine 5'-triphosphate is accomplished by about half saturation of the coenzyme active sites (6-8 active "monomer").
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1969 Sep
PMID:Rates of GDP-induced and GTP-induced depolymerization of glutamate dehydrogenase: a possible factor in metabolic regulation. 431 53

1. Glutamate dehydrogenase was subject to rapid inactivation when irradiated in the presence of Rose Bengal or incubated in the presence of ethoxyformic anhydride. 2. Inactivation in the presence of Rose Bengal led to the photo-oxidation of four histidine residues. Oxidation of three histidine residues had little effect on enzyme activity, but oxidation of the fourth residue led to the almost total loss of activity. 3. Acylation of glutamate dehydrogenase with ethoxyformic anhydride at pH6.1 led to the modification of three histidine residues with a corresponding loss of half the original activity. Acylation at pH7.5 led to the modification of two histidine residues and a total loss of enzyme activity. 4. One of the histidine residues undergoing reaction at pH6.1 also undergoes reaction at pH7.5. 5. The presence of either glutamate or NAD(+) in the reaction mixtures at pH6.1 had no appreciable effect. At pH7.5 glutamate caused a marked decrease in both the degree of alkylation and degree of inactivation. NAD(+) had no effect on the degree of inactivation at pH7.5 but did modify the extent of acylation. 6. The normal response of the enzyme towards ADP was unaffected by acylation at pH6.1 or 7.5. 7. The normal response of the enzyme towards GTP was altered by treatment at both pH6.1 and 7.5.
Biochem J 1972 Sep
PMID:The role of histidine residues in glutamate dehydrogenase. 434 75

When Neurospora mycelium is transferred from a medium containing sucrose to one containing acetate as sole source of carbon, a preferential synthesis of many Krebs cycle, glyoxylate cycle, and associated enzymes occurs. Respiration was inhibited during preferential enzyme synthesis in the following ways. (i) The amount of aeration (shaking) was reduced, (ii) cyanide was added to the culture, (iii) the carbon source, acetate, was removed, (iv) a mutant strain was starved of its Krebs cycle intermediates, and (v) respiration was inhibited by mutation. The effect of this respiratory inhibition on the synthesis of a number of enzymes was measured. It was found that the synthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-linked glutamate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase was significantly less inhibited under conditions of respiratory inhibition than was the synthesis of Krebs cycle, glyoxylate cycle, and most other cell proteins synthesized during the adaptation period. This differential inhibition of enzyme synthesis was almost certainly not due to differential repression by regulatory metabolic end product effectors. Inhibition of mitochondrial respiration under these conditions most likely results in a limitation of the energy supply of the cell. Thus, it is suggested that the inhibition of synthesis of most proteins after inhibition of mitochondrial respiration results from a lack of energy in a utilizable form. Possible reasons to account for the relative insensitivity of NAD-linked glutamate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase to inhibition under these conditions are discussed.
J Bacteriol 1971 Sep
PMID:Selective inhibition of enzyme synthesis under conditions of respiratory inhibition. 509 92

1. delta-Aminolaevulate synthetase was detected in liver and kidney mitochondria prepared from normal rats. 2. The administration of allylisopropylacetamide induced an increase in delta-aminolaevulate synthetase in both liver and kidney mitochondria and the enzyme also appeared in the cytosol fraction of both tissues. Comparison with the distribution of glutamate dehydrogenase indicated that this soluble kidney delta-aminolaevulate synthetase was truly of cytosol origin and did not arise from disrupted mitochondria. The kidney cytosol enzyme was inhibited by 50% by 50mum-protohaem. 3. delta-Aminolaevulate synthetase could not be detected in mitochondria or cytosol from heart or brain from normal or porphyric rats. 4. The administration of allylisopropylacetamide caused little or no increase in ferrochelatase or cytochrome content of liver, kidney, heart or brain mitochondria.
Biochem J 1971 Sep
PMID:Ferrochelatase and -aminolaevulate synthetase in brain, heart, kidney and liver of normal and porphyric rats. The induction of -aminolaevulate synthetase in kidney cytosol and mitochondria by allylisopropylacetamide. 513 47

The enzymes phosphohexose isomerase, lactate dehydrogenase, hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, isocitric dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, and sorbital dehydrogenase were assayed in cases of known carcinoma of the cervix and of carcinoma in situ. Phosphohexose isomerase, lactate dehydrogenase, and isocitric dehydrogenase were also assayed in a number of normal women and in those with benign lesions. It is unlikely that vaginal fluid enzymology will provide a screening test for cervical carcinoma.
J Clin Pathol 1969 Sep
PMID:Vaginal fluid enzyme patterns in benign and malignant lesions of the female genital tract. 536 45

1. The reaction of glutamate dehydrogenase with N-acetylimidazole and with tetranitromethane leads to modification of tyrosine residues. 2. Modification of 1 tyrosine residue/subunit does not affect the enzymic activity but decreases the response of the enzyme to the allosteric inhibitor, GTP. 3. The physical properties of the enzyme (sedimentation coefficient and optical rotatory dispersion) remain unaltered. 4. GTP partially protects against desensitization. 5. The diminished responses of the modified enzymes to GTP are also detected by using the fluorescence of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonate as a conformational probe. 6. Difficulties that generally arise in chemical modifications from inhomogeneous distributions of products are discussed.
Biochem J 1969 Sep
PMID:Desensitization of glutamate dehydrogenase by reaction of tyrosne residues. 581 Jan 6

Intramitochondrial loci for delta-aminolaevulate synthetase and ferrochelatase, the initial and final enzymes in haem synthesis, have been found in rat liver. Two different methods of fractionation were applied to mitochondria: (a) sonication and density-gradient centrifugation; (b) treatment with digitonin and differential centrifugation. Similar results were obtained with each technique. delta-Aminolaevulate synthetase is distributed similarly to two known matrix enzymes, malate dehydrogenase and glutamate dehydrogenase. Ferrochelatase is firmly bound to the the inner mitochondrial membrane. These results are considered in terms of the regulation of haem synthesis and in relation to mitochondrial biogenesis.
Biochem J 1969 Sep
PMID:Intramitochondrial localization of delta-aminolaevulate synthetase and ferrochelatase in rat liver. 582 Jun 34

1. Correlation between elution volume, V(e), and molecular weight was investigated for gel filtration of proteins of molecular weights ranging from 3500 (glucagon) to 820000 (alpha-crystallin) on Sephadex G-200 columns at pH7.5. 2. Allowing for uncertainties in the molecular weights, the results for most of the carbohydrate-free globular proteins fitted a smooth V(e)-log(mol.wt.) curve. In the lower part of the molecular-weight range the results were similar to those obtained with Sephadex G-75 and G-100 gels. 3. V(e)-log(mol.wt.) curves based on results with the three gels are taken to represent the behaviour of ;typical' globular proteins, and are proposed as standard data for the uniform interpretation of gel-filtration experiments. 4. Some glycoproteins, including gamma-globulins and fibrinogen, do not conform to the standard relationship. The effect of shape and carbohydrate content on the gel-filtration behaviour of proteins is discussed. 5. As predicted by the theoretical studies of other authors, correlation exists between the gel-filtration behaviour and diffusion coefficients of proteins. 6. The lower molecular-weight limit for complete exclusion of typical globular proteins from Sephadex G-200 varies with the swelling of the gel, but is usually >10(6). 7. The concentration-dependent dissociation of glutamate dehydrogenase was observed in experiments with Sephadex G-200, and the sub-unit molecular weight estimated as 250000. The free sub-units readily lose enzymic activity. 8. Recognition of the atypical gel-filtration behaviour of gamma-globulins necessitates an alteration to several molecular weights previously estimated with Sephadex G-100 (Andrews, 1964). New values are: yeast glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 128000; bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase, 130000; Aerobacter aerogenes glycerol dehydrogenase, 140000; milk alkaline phosphatase, 180000.
Biochem J 1965 Sep
PMID:The gel-filtration behaviour of proteins related to their molecular weights over a wide range. 586 1

The subcellular localization of glutamine synthetase, an enzyme fundamental to the compartmentation of glutamate hypothesis, was investigated using brain tissue of adult rats. The distribution of this enzyme in relation to the distribution of glucose-6-phosphatase, glutamate dehydrogenase and acetycholine esterase was studied using a fractionation scheme which had been previously extensively characterized in terms of intramitochondrial enzyme complements. Glutamine synthetase was found to be predominantly localized at the nerve terminal and a number of results suggested a possibble association with the synaptic membrane. The observations are discussed in relation to the compartmentation of glutamate metabolism. Acetate and ammonia are precursors of the 'small' pool of glutamate from which most of the synthesis of glutamine occurs. Since one population of synaptic mitochondria has previously been shown to be enriched in glutamate dehydrogenase and acetyl CoA synthetase and in view of the current observtions that synaptosomes are probably in association with a large proportion of brain glutamine synthetase, it is tentatively suggested that the synaptic complex represents at least in part the site of the 'small' glutamate pool.
Brain Res 1980 Sep 22
PMID:The distribution of glutamine synthetase in subcellular fractions of rat brain. 610 1

We have characterized a mutant of Rhizobium meliloti strain 2011 which cannot use ammonium as a nitrogen source. This mutant, RTm2620, was found to have significantly altered glutamate synthase activity. Both the mutant and the wild-type strains had glutamate dehydrogenase activity, which, although stimulated in the presence of glutamate and ammonium, was apparently insufficient to allow ammonium assimmilation. We conclude that the glutamine synthetase-glutamate synthase pathway may be the normal mode of ammonium assimilation by this strain in the free-living state. Independent revertants of Rm2620 were isolated and fell into two classes. Class I revertants regained partial glutamate synthase activity and had the same levels of glutamate dehydrogenase activity as Rm2620. Class II revertants retained the altered glutamate synthase activity but acquired a very high level of assimilatory glutamate dehydrogenase activity. Both classes were found to be altered in their symbiotic properties, although the original Rm2620 mutant was normal in this regard.
J Bacteriol 1980 Sep
PMID:Ammonium assimilation in Rhizobium meliloti. 610 11


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