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. 1981 Nov;78(11):6759–6763. doi: 10.1073/pnas.78.11.6759

Changes in the hydrogen exchange kinetics of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamylase produced by effector binding and subunit association.

M Lennick, N M Allewell
PMCID: PMC349129  PMID: 7031660

Abstract

Large changes in solvent accessibility to aspartate transcarbamylase (aspartate carbamoyltransferase, carbamoylphosphate:L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2), as monitored by tritium exchange, result from binding of substrates and substrate analogs to the catalytic subunit (c3), binding of nucleoside triphosphates to the regulatory subunit (r2), and subunit association. Rates of exchange are reduced in each of these cases, although to different degrees. Succinate, in the presence of carbamoyl phosphate, retards exchange from c3 no more than carbamoyl phosphate alone, and less than N-phosphonacetyl-L-aspartate, a bisubstrate analog. Larger changes in rates of exchange from r2 are produced by CTP than by ATP; however, both CTP and ATP accelerate exchange from c3 to the same extent. The changes in the kinetics of exchange that result from binding of both substrate analogs and nucleoside triphosphates to the native enzyme (c6r6) are much smaller. Carbamoyl phosphate, with or without succinate, retards exchange only slightly, while the bisubstrate analog has a somewhat larger effect. Experiments with reconstituted enzyme, in which only c3 is tritium labeled, indicate that changes in solvent accessibility produced by active site ligands are largely confined to c3. Neither CTP nor ATP alters the overall rate of exchange from c6r6 significantly. The possibility of opposing changes in the two types of subunits was ruled out in experiments in which only one subunit was labeled. The nonadditive effects of ligation and subunit association imply a set of responsive protons common to both processes and suggest that they are linked not only thermodynamically and functionally but also dynamically.

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