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. 1990 Jul 1;269(1):247–253. doi: 10.1042/bj2690247

Homocitrate synthase from Penicillium chrysogenum. Localization, purification of the cytosolic isoenzyme, and sensitivity to lysine.

W M Jaklitsch 1, C P Kubicek 1
PMCID: PMC1131560  PMID: 2115771

Abstract

Subcellular fractionation of cell-free extracts obtained by nitrogen cavitation showed that Penicillium chrysogenum Q176 contains a cytosolic as well as a mitochondrial homocitrate synthase activity. The cytosolic isoenzyme was purified about 500-fold, and its kinetic and molecular properties were investigated. Native homocitrate synthase shows a molecular mass of 155 +/- 10 kDa as determined by gel filtration and a pH of 4.9 +/- 0.1 as determined by chromatofocusing. The kinetic behaviour towards 2-oxoglutarate is hyperbolic, with Km = 2.2 mM; with respect to acetyl-CoA the enzyme shows sigmoidal saturation kinetics, with [S]0.5 = 41 microM and h = 2.6. The enzyme was inhibited strongly by L-lysine (Ki = 8 +/- 2 microM; 50% inhibition by 53 microM at 6 mM-2-oxoglutarate), competitively with 2-oxoglutarate, in protamine sulphate-treated and desalted cell-free extracts and in partially purified preparations. The extent of this inhibition was strongly pH-dependent. Both isoenzymes are equally susceptible to inhibition by lysine. The same inhibition pattern is shown by the enzyme from strain D6/1014A, which is a better producer of penicillin than strain Q176.

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