Abstract
Tropine dehydrogenase was induced by growth of Pseudomonas AT3 on atropine, tropine or tropinone. It was NADP(+)-dependent and gave no activity with NAD+. The enzyme was very unstable but a rapid purification procedure using affinity chromatography that gave highly purified enzyme was developed. The enzyme gave a single band on isoelectric focusing with an isoelectric point at approximately pH 4. The native enzyme had an M(r) of 58,000 by gel filtration and 28,000 by SDS/PAGE and therefore consists of two subunits of equal size. The enzyme displayed a narrow range of specificity and was active with tropine and nortropine but not with pseudotropine, pseudonortropine, or a number of related compounds. The apparent Kms were 6.06 microM for tropine and 73.4 microM for nortropine with the specificity constant (Vmax/Km) for tropine 7.8 times that for pseudotropine. The apparent Km for NADP+ was 48 microM. The deuterium of [3-2H]tropine and [3-2H]pseudotropine was retained when these compounds were converted into 6-hydroxycyclohepta-1,4-dione, an intermediate in tropine catabolism, showing that the tropine dehydrogenase, although induced by growth on tropine, is not involved in the catabolic pathway for this compound. 6-Hydroxycyclohepta-1,4-dione was also implicated as an intermediate in the pathways for pseudotropine and tropinone catabolism.
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