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. 1983 Aug 1;213(2):331–338. doi: 10.1042/bj2130331

Temperature-dependence of intramolecular coupling of active sites in pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes.

L C Packman, C J Stanley, R N Perham
PMCID: PMC1152132  PMID: 6351839

Abstract

Intramolecular coupling of active sites in the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes of Escherichia coli, ox heart and Bacillus stearothermophilus was measured at various temperatures. As the temperature was raised, the extent of active-site coupling was found to increase, approaching a maximum near the physiological growth temperature of the organism. Under these conditions, a single pyruvate dehydrogenase (lipoamide) dimer appeared able to cause a rapid (20s) reductive acetylation of probably all 24 polypeptide chains in the dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase core of the enzyme complex from E. coli at 37 degrees C, and of most if not all of the 60 polypeptide chains in the dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase cores of the enzymes from ox heart and B. stearothermophilus at 37 degrees C and 60 degrees C respectively. Experiments designed to measure the inter-core and intra-core migration of enzyme subunits suggested that, in the bacterial enzymes at least, this was not a major contributor to active-site coupling.

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