Purification and properties of the inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase from Chlorella sorokiniana.
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Gronostajski, R M
RESUMO
The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP-GDH) of Chlorella sorokiniana was purified 260-fold to electrophoretic homogeneity in six steps. Depending on the techniques used, the native enzyme appeared to have a molecular weight of 290,000 or 410,000 and to be composed of five to seven identical subunits with a molecular weight of 58,000. The amino acid composition of this enzyme was shown to differ considerably from that of the NAD-GDH in this organism. The NH2-terminal amino acid was unavailable to dansylation. All six cysteines in the native enzyme were in the free sulfhydryl form. The pH optima for the aminating and deaminating reactions were 7.2 and 9.2, respectively. The Km values for NH4+, alpha-ketoglutarate, NADPH, L-glutamate, and NADP+ were 68, 12, 0.13, and 0.038 mM, respectively. At low substrate concentrations, no cooperativity was seen; however, severe inhibition of enzyme activity was observed at high alpha-ketoglutarate concentrations. Nucleotides did not affect enzyme activity. Antiserum produced in rabbits to the subunits of the enzyme yielded a single precipitin band with the purified enzyme in Ouchterlony double-diffusion analysis. Immunoelectrophoresis was used to confirm the purity of the enzyme and also to quantify the amount of enzyme antigen. These studies indicate that the NADPH-GDH and NAD-GDH isozymes are distinct molecular species in this organism.
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