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. 1996 Dec;5(12):2545–2551. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560051217

The ubiquitous cofactor NADH protects against substrate-induced inhibition of a pyridoxal enzyme.

W M Jones 1, P W van Ophem 1, M A Pospischil 1, D Ringe 1, G Petsko 1, K Soda 1, J M Manning 1
PMCID: PMC2143306  PMID: 8976563

Abstract

In the usual reaction catalyzed by D-amino acid transaminase, cleavage of the alpha-H bond is followed by the reversible transfer of the alpha-NH2 to a keto acid cosubstrate in a two-step reaction mediated by the two vitamin B6 forms pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) and pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate (PMP). We report here a reaction not on the main pathway, i.e., beta-decarboxylation of D-aspartate to D-alanine, which occurs at 0.01% the rate of the major transaminase reaction. In this reaction, beta-C-C bond cleavage of the single substrate D-aspartate occurs rather than the usual alpha-bond cleavage in the transaminase reaction. The D-alanine produced from D-aspartate slowly inhibits both transaminase and decarboxylase activities, but NADH or NADPH instantaneously prevent D-aspartate turnover and D-alanine formation, thereby protecting the enzyme against inhibition. NADH has no effect on the enzyme spectrum itself in the absence of substrates, but it acts on the enzyme.D-aspartate complex with an apparent dissociation constant of 16 microM. Equivalent concentrations of NAD or thiols have no such effect. The suppression of beta-decarboxylase activity by NADH occurs concomitant with a reduction in the 415-nm absorbance due to the PLP form of the enzyme and an increase at 330 nm due to the PMP form of the enzyme. alpha-Ketoglutarate reverses the spectral changes caused by NADH and regenerates the active PLP form of the enzyme from the PMP form with an equilibrium constant of 10 microM. In addition to its known role in shuttling electrons in oxidation-reduction reactions, the niacin derivative NADH may also function by preventing aberrant damaging reactions for some enzyme-substrate intermediates. The D-aspartate-induced effect of NADH may indicate a slow transition between protein conformational studies if the reaction catalyzed is also slow.

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