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Query: EC:2.6.1.1 (aspartate aminotransferase)
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Fractionation of cell organelles of nitrogen-fixing nodules of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) by discontinuous and continuous sucrose density centrifugation indicated that starch-containing plastids possessed the complete pathway for purine nucleotide synthesis together with significant activities of some other enzymes associated with the provision of substrates in purine synthesis; triosephosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.1), NADH-glutamate synthase (EC 2.6.1.53), aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1), phosphoglycerate oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.95), and methylene tetrahydrofolate oxidoreductase (EC 1.5.1.5). Enzymes of purine oxidation, xanthine oxidoreductase (EC 1.2.3.2), and urate oxidase (EC 1.7.3.3) were recovered in the soluble fraction; glutamine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.2) occurred in bacteroids and in the cytosol. Intact, infected (bacteroid-containing) and uninfected cells were prepared by enzymatic maceration of the central zone of the nodule and partially separated by centrifugation on discontinuous sucrose gradients. Glutamine synthetase was largely restricted to infected cells whereas plastid enzymes, de novo purine synthesis, and urate oxidase were present in both cell types. Although the levels of all enzymes assayed were higher in infected cells, both cell types possessed the necessary enzyme complement for ureide formation. A model for the cellular and subcellular organization of nitrogen metabolism and the transport of nitrogenous solutes in cowpea nodules is proposed.
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PMID:Cellular and subcellular organization of pathways of ammonia assimilation and ureide synthesis in nodules of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.). 687 Feb 68

Subcellular organelle fractionation of nitrogen-fixing nodules of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) indicates that a number of enzymes involved in the assimilation of ammonia into amino acids and purines are located in the proplastids. These include asparagine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.1), phosphoribosyl amidotransferase (EC 2.4.2.14), phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.95), serine hydroxymethylase (EC 2.1.2.1), and methylene-tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (EC 1.5.1.5). Of the two isoenzymes of asparate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) in the nodule, only one was located in the proplastid fraction. Both glutamate synthase (EC 1.4.1.14) and triosephosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.1) were associated at least in part with the proplastids. Glutamine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.2) and xanthine dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.37) were found in significant quantities only in the soluble fraction. Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase (EC 2.7.6.1) was found mostly in the soluble fraction, although small amounts of it were detected in other organelle fractions. These results together with recent organelle fractionation and electron microscopic studies form the basis for a model of the subcellular distribution of ammonium assimilation, amide synthesis and uredie biogenesis in the nodule.
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PMID:Subcellular organization of ureide biogenesis from glycolytic intermediates and ammonium in nitrogen-fixing soybean nodules. 2427 25