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The nitrogen-fixing, aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium Alcaligenes latus forms hydrogenase when growing lithoautotrophically with hydrogen as electron donor and carbon dioxide as sole carbon source or when growing heterotrophically with N2 as sole nitrogen source. The hydrogenase is membrane-bound and relatively oxygen-sensitive. The enzymes formed under both conditions are identical on the basis of the following criteria: molecular mass, mobility in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Km value for hydrogen (methylene blue reduction), stability properties, localization, and cross-reactivity to antibodies raised against the 'autotrophic' hydrogenase. The hydrogenase was solubilized by Triton X-100 and deoxycholate treatment and purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatography on Phenyl-Sepharose C1-4B, DEAE-Sephacel and Matrix Gel Red A under hydrogen to homogeneity to a specific activity of 113 mumol H2 oxidized/min per mg protein (methylene blue reduction).
SDS
gel electrophoresis revealed two nonidentical subunits of molecular weights of 67 000 and 34 000, corresponding to a total molecular weight of 101 000. The pure enzyme was able to reduce
FAD
, FMN, riboflavin, flavodoxin isolated from Megasphaera elsdenii, menadione and horse heart cytochrome c as well as various artificial electron acceptors. The reversibility of the hydrogenase function was demonstrated by H2 evolution from reduced methyl viologen.
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PMID:Purification and properties of the membrane-bound hydrogenase from N2-fixing Alcaligenes latus. 630 22
The clinical and biochemical phenotype of glutaric acidaemia type II (GAII) has led to the suggestion that the defect in the disorder affects electron transfer from primary
FAD
-containing dehydrogenases into the respiratory chain. Two proteins are involved in this process, i.e. electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF) and ETF dehydrogenase, an iron--sulphur flavoprotein with a distinctive EPR signal. Reliable catalytic assays for these proteins are not available, but both proteins have been purified and antisera against them prepared in rabbits.
SDS
-PAG electrophoresis of liver mitochondrial membranes from a GAII infant with congenital anomalies, locating ETF dehydrogenase with specific antiserum, showed no cross-reactive material. EPR of the same membranes showed a marked decrease in the ETF dehydrogenase signal. These results suggest that the defect in GAII in some patients is indeed in electron transport, and specifically in ETF dehydrogenase.
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PMID:Glutaric acidaemia type II (multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenation deficiency). 643 42
Ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase (native enzyme) [EC 1.4.7.1] of spinach has been purified to homogeneity in the presence of 2-oxoglutarate and sodium chloride and the properties of the enzyme have been studied. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 140,000 by gel filtration. Subunit analysis by
SDS
-gel electrophoresis yielded a single protein band whose molecular weight was about 170,000. This purified enzyme showed a flavo-protein-like absorption spectrum having maxima at 279 and 438 nm with shoulders at 415 and 460 nm and a broad band around 360 nm. Fluorometric data indicated the presence of 2 mol of flavin per mol of the enzyme. Preliminary paper chromatography results indicated the presence of
FAD
and FMN in the purified enzyme. The enzyme also contained 4 mol of acid-labile sulfide and 4 g-atoms iron per mol of enzyme. In the absence of 2-oxoglutarate and/or sodium chloride, the purified enzyme was separated by either DE-52 cellulose chromatography or gel filtration with Ultrogel AcA 34 into two molecular forms (modified enzymes) with considerable inactivation. When reduced methyl viologen plus ferredoxin was used as the electron donor, the purified (native) enzyme showed high ferredoxin-dependent activity with a specific activity of 100 units/mg protein. Methyl viologen-dependent activity was negligible in the absence of ferredoxin. Kinetic properties and results of ESR studies were described. The results indicate that ferredoxin-linked glutamate synthase of spinach leaves is an iron-sulfur flavoprotein.
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PMID:Flavin and iron-sulfur containing ferredoxin-linked glutamate synthase from spinach leaves. 674 4
An L-amino acid oxidase (L-amino-acid oxygen oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.3.2) from the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans has been purified to homogeneity with an overall yield of about 10%. Purification included ammonium sulfate fractionation and CM-Sephadex, DEAE-Sephadex, and hydroxyapatite chromatography. The purified enzyme has an absorption spectrum which is characteristic of a flavoprotein, and contains 1 mol
FAD
per mol enzyme. The native enzyme has a molecular weight of 98 000 as determined by gel exclusion chromatography. Electrophoresis in
SDS
-polyacrylamide gels gives a single protein band corresponding to a molecular weight of 49 000, which suggests that the native enzyme is composed of 2 subunits of equal molecular weight. As previously demonstrated, the enzyme catalyzes the oxidative deamination of the basic amino acids: L-arginine, L-lysine, L-ornithine and L-histidine. In the presence of catalase and of any of these amino acids, 0.5 mol O2 is consumed, and 1 mol ammonia is formed for each mol amino acid oxidized. HCN is formed from L-histidine when the L-amino acid oxidase is supplemented with peroxidase. In addition to the unusual substrate specificity of this L-amino acid ozidase, it also has an unusual set of inhibitors including o-phenanthroline as well as divalent cations of which Cu2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+ are the most effective ones, but Mg2+ and Ca2+ also inhibit. This inhibition can be reversed by chelating agents such as EDTA. ATP and ADP, but not AMP, can also overcome the inhibition caused by Mg2+, for example. The inhibitory effect of cations can be demonstrated in vivo.
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PMID:Some properties of a basic L-amino-acid oxidase from Anacystis nidulans. 676 43
Squalene epoxidase (EC 1.14.99.7, squalene 2,3-monooxygenase (epoxidizing) was purified to an apparent homogeneity from rat liver microsomes. The purification was carried out by solubilization of microsomes by Triton X-100, fractionation with ion exchangers, hydroxyapatite, Cibacron Blue Sepharose 4B, and chromatofocusing column chromatography. A total purification of 143-fold over the first DEAE-cellulose fraction was achieved. The purified enzyme gave a single major band on
SDS
-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and the Mr was estimated to be 51 000 as a single polypeptide chain. The enzyme showed no distinct absorption spectrum in the visible regions. The squalene epoxidase activity was reconstituted with the purified enzyme, NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase (EC 1.6.2.4),
FAD
, NADPH and molecular oxygen in the presence of Triton X-100. The apparent Michaelis constants for squalene and
FAD
were 13 microM and 5 microM, respectively. The Vmax was about 186 nmol per mg protein per 30 min for 2,3-oxidosqualene. The enzyme activity was not inhibited by potent inhibitors of cytochrome P-450. It is suggested that squalene epoxidase is distinct from cytochrome P-450 isozymes.
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PMID:Purification and partial characterization of squalene epoxidase from rat liver microsomes. 681 96
NADH-cytochrome b5 reductases purified from human red cell membranes and cytosol were compared with those prepared from human liver microsomes. Minimal molecular weights of the membrane and the cytosol enzymes as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) were 36,000 and 32,000 daltons, respectively, which are comparable to those of the detergent-solubilized reductase (dfp) and the protease-solubilized one (tfp) of liver microsomes, respectively. All the enzymes contained
FAD
and had essentially the same turnover numbers and apparent Km values for NADH and protease-solubilized cytochrome b5. The membrane enzyme and liver dfp reduced cytochrome c in the presence of detergent-solubilized cytochrome b5 70-80 times faster than in the presence of trypsin-solubilized cytochrome b5, whereas the cytosol enzyme and liver tfp showed essentially the same low activities with both preparations of cytochrome b5.
SDS
-PAGE mapping of the limited proteolytic products of the reductases obtained by digestion with staphylococcal protease or a-chymotrypsin showed essentially the same patterns of peptides between the red cell membrane enzyme and liver dfp and between the red cell cytosol enzyme and liver tfp. These results suggest that the NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase of human red cell membranes is identical with that of liver microsomes and that the enzyme of red cell cytosol is a proteolytic product of the membrane enzyme.
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PMID:Human NADH-cytochrome b5 reductases: comparison among those of erythrocyte membrane, erythrocyte cytosol, and liver microsomes. 684 58
Choline oxidase from Alcaligenes sp. catalyzed the oxidation of choline and betaine aldehyde to betaine with concomitant consumption of oxygen and production of hydrogen peroxide. The values of Km for choline and betaine aldehyde were 0.87 and 6.2 mM, respectively. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 66,000 by
SDS
-gel electrophoresis and 72,000 by gel-filtration using a high performance liquid chromatograph. The prosthetic group of the enzyme was identified as 8 alpha-[N(3)-histidyl]-
FAD
from the electrophoretic mobility at pH 6.25 of the hydrolysate of the methylated histidylflavin. The visible absorption spectrum of the enzyme showed peaks at 358 and 453 nm and a shoulder at about 480 nm. The covalently bound
FAD
was reduced on addition of either choline or betaine aldehyde under anaerobic conditions and was reoxidized by aeration. The enzyme was found to contain 1 mol of
FAD
per mol enzyme. Amino acid analysis of a purified flavin peptide gave the following molar ratios of amino acids to flavin: pro(1), Asp + Asn(3), Ser(1), His(1), and Arg(1). Aspartic acid was the N-terminal amino acid. The partial sequence of amino acids in the flavin peptide was as follows: Formula (See Text).
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PMID:Identification and properties of the prosthetic group of choline oxidase from Alcaligenes sp. 699 83
NADPH-nitrate reductase [NADPH : nitrate oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.6.3] was purified 500-fold from Aspergillus nidulans with an overall yield of about 20%. The purified enzyme catalyzed NADPH-nitrate, NADPH-cytochrome c, FADH2-nitrate and reduced methyl viologen-nitrate reductase activities. Its molecular weight was estimated to be 180,000 from the Stokes radius and sedimentation coefficient. The oxidized enzyme exhibited an absorption spectrum having a peak at 412 nm and a broad shoulder at about 450 nm. When reduced with NADPH, absorption peaks appeared at 423 (Soret), 527 (beta) and 557 (alpha) nm, and absorption in the 450 nm region decreased. Upon treatment of the reduced enzyme with KNO3, the spectrum returned to that of the oxidized enzyme. The presence of protoheme in the enzyme was confirmed by the absorption spectrum of reduced pyridine hemochromogen. It was concluded that a b-type cytochrome ("cytochrome b-557") is present in the enzyme and is involved in the intramolecular electron transport from NADPH to nitrate. The NADPH-nitrate and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activities, but not the other two activities, were significantly decreased by incubation of the enzyme at 37 degrees C in the absence of
FAD
. Analysis by
SDS
slab gel electrophoresis suggested that the nitrate reductase consists of two each of two subunits of 59,000 and 38,000 daltons and that a dissociation of 38,000 subunits from the native enzyme occurs during heat treatment, resulting in alteration of the catalytic activity.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of the assimilatory NADPH-nitrate reductase of Aspergillus nidulans. 704 1
1. Putrescine oxidase [EC 1.4.3.10] was partially inactivated by reaction with 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC), rapidly. The activity of the modified enzyme toward putrescine was 5.6% of that of the native enzyme. Moreover, the optimal pH and Km value of the modified enzyme for putrescine changed from 9.0 to 10.5 and from 0.23 to 3.4 mM, respectively. This modified enzyme showed activity toward monoamines such as n-butylamine, n-hexylamine, and n-octylamine, which are not substrates of the native enzyme. 2. Heavy metal ions inactivated putrescine oxidase completely. Hg2+ had the stronger ability to inactivate it. This inactivation was due to the dissociation of
FAD
from the enzyme molecule. The Fad-free enzyme had no ability to reassociate
FAD
, in contrast to the apoenzyme. The enzyme treated with Hg2+ showed characteristic behavior on
SDS
-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. 3. From the results of chemical modification it was deduced that a carboxyl group plays an important role in binding the substrate.
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PMID:Mode of inactivation of putrescine oxidase by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide or metal ions. 741 7
Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) catalyzes the NADPH-dependent, Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent formation of NO and citrulline from L-arginine and molecular oxygen. The localization of the heme-binding consensus sequence in the NH2-terminal half of NOS and of the binding sequences for nucleotides (FMN and
FAD
) in the COOH-terminal half suggests a bidomain structure. In addition, the presence of a putative calmodulin-binding sequence between the heme- and flavin-binding domains of the enzyme suggests a role for calmodulin in modulating a spatial orientation of these domains that is required for catalytic activity. First, to determine the effects of calmodulin and the functionality of the separated domains, Ca2+/calmodulin binding-induced conformational changes in NOS were measured by fluorescence quenching, from which a binding constant of approximately 1 nM for calmodulin was calculated. Second, electron transport to various artificial acceptors was measured. The addition of Ca2+/calmodulin increased cytochrome c reduction from 10-15-fold while stimulating the rate of 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol and ferricyanide reduction only slightly, if at all. Calmodulin stimulation of NOS results in NADPH-mediated cytochrome c reduction, which is sensitive to superoxide dismutase, and the reduction of acetylated cytochrome c, which is only weakly reducible by unstimulated NOS. Thus, this stimulated activity is presumably superoxide anion-mediated. Third, limited proteolysis of NOS in the absence of calmodulin resulted in a time-dependent increase in cytochrome c reductase activity, which was not inhibitable by superoxide dismutase, and a decrease in catalysis of NO formation.
SDS
-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of the tryptic digest demonstrated the formation of approximately 89- and approximately 79-kDa fragments. Sequence analysis of the peptides confirmed that trypsin cleaves the enzyme in the putative calmodulin-binding region beginning with Ala728. This region was protected from proteolysis by the addition of Ca2+/calmodulin. The separated NH2-terminal domain exhibited the characteristic spectrum of bound heme, while the COOH-terminal domain showed the characteristic spectrum of bound flavins. Other cleavage patterns were obtained in the presence of calmodulin. The data demonstrate that the heme- and flavin-binding domains of NOS can be isolated in functionally intact forms.
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PMID:Evidence for a bidomain structure of constitutive cerebellar nitric oxide synthase. 751 50
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