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Query: EC:4.1.1.49 (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase)
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1. Rat liver mitochondria oxidizing malate produce PEP (phosphoenolpyruvate) without the addition of ATP or other nucleotides. 2. The addition of oligomycin in the presence of 2,4-dinitrophenol did not abolish PEP formation and in some instances stimulated its formation. 3. Formation of PEP was inhibited by arsenate. 4. Arsenite decreased PEP formation and caused accumulation of pyruvate. 5. Added GTP and ITP had no effect on PEP formation. 6. PEP formed from malate in the presence of GTP and labelled P(i) had a specific radioactivity approximately the same as the P(i) with no contribution from the phosphate of the added GTP. 7. There was no parallelism between the effects of inhibitors on PEP formation from malate and their effects on the assayed activity of PEP carboxykinase. 8. In a direct comparison it was shown that the PEP carboxykinase content of mitochondria was insufficient to account for the PEP formation from malate. 9. Consideration of the kinetic characteristics of PEP carboxykinase and mitochondrial content of oxaloacetate and GTP show that this enzyme cannot account for the PEP formed from malate by mitochondria.
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PMID:The effect of inhibitors on the formation of phosphoenolpyruvate by rat liver mitochondria. 418 46

The presence of high phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (EC 4.1.1.32) activity in mouse islet cytosol has been demonstrated. The enzyme was activated by Mn2+ with a Ka of 100 X 10(-6) mol/l. The mean total activity of the Mn2+-stimulated phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in islet cytosol estimated at 22 degrees C with saturating concentrations of the substrates oxaloacetate and ITP was 146 pmol/min per micrograms DNA. Km was calculated to be 6 X 10(-6) mol/l for oxaloacetate and 140 X 10(-6) mol/l for ITP. The islet phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity was not increased after starvation of the animals for 48 h. Preincubation of the cytosol at 4 degrees C with Fe2+, quinolinate, ATP, Pi, glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, NAD+, NADH, oxaloacetate, ITP, cyclic AMP and Ca2+ had no effect on the enzyme activity. However, preincubation of the cytosol at 37 degrees C with ATP-Mg inhibited the Mn2+-stimulated phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity progressively with time and in a concentration-dependent manner. A similar but weaker inhibitory effect was observed with p[NH]ppA, whereas p[CH2]ppA, ADP, AMP, adenosine and Pi had no effect. It is tentatively suggested that ATP and p[NH]ppA either by adenylation or otherwise affect the interaction between islet phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and the recently discovered Mr = 29000 protein modulator of the enzyme in such a way - perhaps by causing a dissociation between them - that phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase loses its sensitivity to Mn2+ activation.
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PMID:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in mouse pancreatic islets. ATP-induced changes in sensitivity to Mn2+ activation. 638 41

The interactions of nucleotide substrates with the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and its Mn2+ complex were investigated by several methods. Direct binding shows the formation of stoichiometric complexes. The presence of Mn2+ increases the affinity of the enzyme for nucleotide. A higher affinity for GTP (Kd less than 2 microM) than for GDP (Kd = 15 microM) was determined. Solvent proton relaxation rate studies indicate no substantial difference in titration curves for free nucleotide or for Mg-nucleotide to the enzyme-Mn complex. The effect of Mn2+ on the 31P relaxation rates of IDP and of ITP in the binary Mn-nucleotide complex indicates the formation of direct coordination complexes. The distances of the alpha- and beta-31P of IDP to Mn2+ are identical (3.5 A). The Mn2+ distance to the beta- and gamma-31P of ITP is also identical (3.7 A) and is 0.2 A further from the alpha-phosphorus. In the presence of P-enolpyruvate carboxykinase, the effect of Mn2+ on the 31P relaxation rates was measured at 40.5 MHz and at 121.5 MHz. The dipolar correlation time was calculated to be 0.6-5.4 ns, depending upon assumptions made. The Mn2+ to phosphorus distances indicate the nucleotide substrates form a second sphere complex to the bound Mn2+. From 1/T2 measurements, electron delocalization from Mn2+ to the phosphorus atoms is indicated; this effect occurs although direct coordination does not take place. The exchange rate of GTP from the enzyme-Mn complex (koff = 4 X 10(4) s-1) is rapid compared to kcat with a lower energy of activation (9.2 kcal/mol) than for catalytic turnover.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Phosphorus-31 nuclear relaxation rate studies of the nucleotides on phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. 652 66

The inhibition of chicken liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase by 3-mercaptopicolinic acid (3-MP) has been investigated. Kinetic studies show 3-MP to be a noncompetitive inhibitor relative to all substrates and to the activator, Mn2+. EPR studies demonstrate that Mn2+ binding to the enzyme is unaffected by 3-MP. Proton relaxation rate studies demonstrate that 3-MP binds to the binary E X Mn complex with a KD of 0.5 X 10(-6) M and gives a ternary enhancement of 8.0. Additional proton relaxation rate studies detected formation of the quaternary complexes E X Mn X IDP X 3-MP, E X Mn X ITP X 3-MP, and E X Mn X CO2 X 3-MP. High resolution 1H nuclear relaxation rate studies suggest that 3-MP binds in close proximity to the activator cation, Mn2+, but not in the first coordination sphere. Active site models suggest that the 3-MP-binding site may partially overlap the phosphoenolpyruvate-binding site. The NMR studies, which detected formation of the quaternary E X Mn X 3-MP X phosphoenolpyruvate complex, also demonstrated that the binding of one of these ligands affects the interactions of the other ligand with E X Mn. Calorimetric studies of the E X Mn complex demonstrated that 3-MP causes an increase in the transition temperature midpoint without an increase in enthalpy. These results indicate that 3-MP causes a conformational change in the enzyme but does not increase the thermostability of the ternary complex. The experiments reported herein suggest that inhibition by 3-MP is due to specific and reversible binding within the active site of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase.
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PMID:3-Mercaptopicolinate. A reversible active site inhibitor of avian liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase. 661 35

The activation of the avian liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase catalyzed reversible decarboxylation of oxalacetate by Mn2+ has been studied. The Mn2+ facilitates the interaction of oxalacetate to the enzyme. At saturating ITP and oxalacetate concentrations, Mn2+ has a Km = 2 microM. The cation Mg2+ can substitute for Mn2+ with 50% Vmax in the oxalacetate decarboxylation and 2% Vmax in the oxalacetate formation. The Km for Mg2+ is 3 orders of magnitude greater than the Km of Mn2+, however. Of the other cations tested (Ca2+, Zn2+, Fe2+, and Cd2+), Co2+ was the only other cation found to activate the enzyme in both directions. In the presence of Mg2+, the enzyme is extremely sensitive to trace metal contaminants which can cause activation. At 1 mM Mg2+, 20 microM Mn2+ causes a 15-fold activation of activity. The apparent Km for Mn2+ (2 microM) at high concentrations of Mg2+ is the identical value calculated for free Mn2+. In a mixed metal (Mg2+ and Mn2+) assay, the Km values for phosphoenolpyruvate and for oxalacetate are independent of the concentration of Mg2+ but decrease upon an increase in Mn2+. The kinetic results demonstrate two roles for the divalent cations for activity. The cation forms a metal . nucleotide complex which serves as the substrate. The results indicate that MgITP is a better substrate than MnITP, but MnIDP is a better substrate than MgIDP. The cation also binds to the enzyme to form an enzyme . metal complex which is the active form of the enzyme. This cation functions to aid in the interaction of either oxalacetate or phosphoenolpyruvate to the enzyme. The activation by micromolar amounts of Mn2+ at millimolar concentrations of Mg2+ suggests that this enzyme, and thus the pathway of gluconeogenesis, can be modulated by changes in concentration of Mn2+ within mitochondria.
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PMID:The role of cations in avian liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase catalysis. Activation and regulation. 679 77

The enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase has been purified from chicken liver mitochondria. This purification includes a pseudo-affinity column step utilizing Sepharose 4B-blue dextran which binds the enzyme. The enzyme elutes with ITP to yield protein which is greater than 98% pure. The enzyme has Mr = 75,400 +/- 200 estimated by high speed sedimentation equilibrium and 70,500 +/- 500 estimated by reduced sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. The enzyme is abnormally retarded on molecular exclusion resins yielding low apparent molecular weight values. The amino acid analysis indicates that the enzyme has a high proline content and a high tryptophan content and contains 9 mol of cysteine/mol of enzyme. No disulfide bonds were detected. The extinction coefficient (epsilon 1% 280 = 16.5 +/- 0.1) reflects the high tryptophan content. The Svedberg coefficient (s20,w = 4.63 +/- 0.03 S) is consistent with a globular protein of Mr = 70,500-75,400. The activation of the enzyme was investigated by steady state kinetics. The carboxylation reaction has an activation energy of 17.6 kcal/mol. There is no requirement of a monovalent cation for activity. A thiol is necessary for maximal activity, although apparently not to reduce disulfide bonds within the enzyme. Incubation with dithiothreitol stabilizes enzymatic activity but beta-mercaptoethanol facilitates loss of activity. The kinetics of activation by Mn2+ was performed. The Ks value for phosphoenolpyruvate (300 microM) decreases to an apparent Km of 67 microM with increasing concentrations of Mn2+. The concentration of Mn2+ does not affect the interaction of HCO-3 with the enzyme, however. Analysis of data in terms of free IDP indicates that increasing Mn2+ decreases the Km of IDP but analysis as MnIDP indicates the Km,app of MnIDP is independent of the Mn2+ concentration. The enzyme interacts with Mn2+ with a KA = 67 microM and the Km,app decreases to a value of 8 microM with saturating substrates. The substrate analogue (Z)-3-fluorophosphoenolpyruvate is a good substrate for the reaction (Km = 30 microM) with 27% Vmax compared to P-enolpyruvate (Km = 180 microM). Except for 3-bromophosphoenolpyruvate, other analogues have shown weak competitive or noncompetitive inhibition. Potential analogues of oxalacetate (succinate, citrate, isocitrate, malate, and alpha-ketoglutarate) all elicit weak (greater than 15 mM) inhibition.
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PMID:The purification, characterization, and activation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from chicken liver mitochondria. 706 3

Streptonigrin, an antibiotic with antineoplastic activity, inhibited rat liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase with an I50 of 0.3 microM when excess FeCl2 was present. No inhibition occurred in the absence of added metal ion. Inhibition was partial and noncompetitive versus ITP and oxalacetic acid. The enzyme was more susceptible to inhibition by streptonigrin in the absence of substrates. Fe2+ supported inhibition by streptonigrin to a greater extent than did Fe3+, while Mn2+ activated the enzyme in the presence of streptonigrin. For maximum inhibition, at least a 3-fold molar excess of iron over streptonigrin was required. The methyl ester of streptonigrin was also an inhibitor (I50 = 4 microM) while the fragment containing the C and D rings was not, indicating that inhibition did not depend solely on the presence of the picolinic acid moiety. When oxalacetate synthesis was measured, streptonigrin plus iron had no more effect on enzymatic activity than iron alone, and Mn2+ was capable of stimulating the streptonigrin-Fe2+ inhibited enzyme.
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PMID:Inhibition of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase by streptonigrin. 708 67

A method is described for the purification of the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) from the cestode Hymenolepis diminuta. When purified to electrophoretic homogeneity, the enzyme had a molecular weight of 70,600 and an isoelectric point of 7.5. Kinetic studies indicated that the pH 5.6 was optimal for the carboxylation reaction and that Mn++ was the preferred divalent cation; there was no activity of the enzyme in the presence of Mg++. Apparent Km values for the carboxylation reaction were determined; those for GDP (20.6 muM) and PEP (38.9 muM) were lower than the values previously reported. GTP, GMP, ITP, IMP, fumarate, succinate and alpha-ketoglutarate were found to be competitive inhibitors and their Ki values determined.
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PMID:Purification and properties of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda). 732 56

Two members of the ATP-dependent class of phospho enol pyruvate (PEP) carboxykinases (Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli PEP carboxykinase), and one member of the GTP-dependent class (the cytosolic rat liver enzyme) have been comparatively analyzed by taking advantage of their intrinsic fluorescence. The S. cerevisiae and the rat liver enzymes show intrinsic fluorescence with a maximum emission characteristic of moderately buried tryptophan residues, while the E. coli carboxykinase shows somewhat more average exposure for these fluorophores. The fluorescence of the three proteins was similarly quenched by the polar compound acrylamide, but differences were observed for the ionic quencher iodide. For the ATP-dependent enzymes, these last experiments indicate more exposure to the aqueous media of the tryptophan population of the E. coli than of the S. cerevisiae enzyme. The effect of nucleotides on the emission intensities and quenching efficiencies revealed substrate-induced conformational changes in the E. coli and cytosolic rat liver PEP carboxykinases. The addition of Mn2+ or of the adenosine nucleotides in the presence of Mg2+ induced an enhancement in the fluorescence of the E. coli enzyme. The addition of guanosine or inosine nucleotides to the rat liver enzyme quenched its fluorescence. From the ligand-induced fluorescence changes, dissociation constants of 40 +/- 6 microM, 10 +/- 0.8 microM, and 15 +/- 1 microM were obtained for Mn2+, MgATP and MgADP binding to the E. coli enzyme, respectively. For the cytosolic rat liver PEP carboxykinase, the respective values for GDP, IDP and ITP binding are 6 +/- 0.5 microM, 6.7 +/- 0.4 microM and 10.1 +/- 1.7 microM. A comparison of the dissociation constants obtained in this work with those reported for other PEP carboxykinases is presented.
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PMID:Comparative steady-state fluorescence studies of cytosolic rat liver (GTP), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ATP) and Escherichia coli (ATP) phospho enol pyruvate carboxykinases. 844 84

A cytosolic cell-free system prepared from rat liver was used to study the effect of bivalent cations on the activity of the gluconeogenic enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK). Steady-state concentrations of oxaloacetate in the range 5-50 microM were generated from increasing concentrations of malate+fumarate (10:1); 2 mM ITP and 3 mM Mg2+ were added as cofactors. Micromolar concentrations of Mn2+, Fe2+ and, to a lesser extent, of Zn2+ and Co2+ were shown to stimulate PEPCK activity. Vmax. (mumol/min per g of liver) increased from 0.67 to 1.68 on addition of 5 microM Fe2+ and to 2.34 with 2 microM Mn2+, whereas no significant effect on the Km for oxaloacetate was observed. The apparent K(a) values (total) were 0.62 microM for Mn2+, 1.48 microM for Zn2+, 1.92 microM for Co2+ and 3.37 microM for Fe2+, being 2-8-fold lower than the corresponding published values. Variations of the free Mn2+ concentration were obtained (a) by increasing the Mn2+ concentration (i.e. activation curve) and (b) by simultaneous addition of Mn2+ and increasing concentrations of the chelating agent EGTA (i.e. inactivation curve). Different results were obtained for the activation and inactivation curves. The inactivation curve showed that PEPCK activity was almost unaffected by variations of the free Mn2+ concentration over the range 0.05-0.15 microM. Under comparable experimental conditions, rat liver arginase (another Mn(2+)-dependent enzyme) was completely inactivated. From kinetic evidence, the existence of two distinct molecular forms of cytosolic rat liver PEPCK with different Mn2+ affinities is postulated. Considering the high affinity of PEPCK for Mn2+ and its relative insensitivity to changes in the free Mn2+ concentration, it seems rather unlikely that changes in the free cation concentration play a major role in regulating PEPCK activity in vivo.
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PMID:A physiological role of Mn2+ in the regulation of cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from rat liver is unlikely. 850 71


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