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. 1971 Dec;68(12):2949–2953. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.12.2949

Modulation of Glutamine Synthetase Adenylylation and Deadenylylation Is Mediated by Metabolic Transformation of the PII-Regulatory Protein

M S Brown 1, A Segal 1, E R Stadtman 1
PMCID: PMC389567  PMID: 4399832

Abstract

Earlier studies showed that two protein components, PI and PII, are concerned with the adenylylation and deadenylylation of Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.2). PI by itself catalyzes both adenylylation and deadenylylation, but its activity is modulated by the PII-protein and by glutamine, 2-oxoglutarate, ATP, and UTP, The PII-protein exists in two forms: one form, PII-AT, stimulates PI-catalyzed adenylylation activity in the absence of glutamine and makes this activity very sensitive to inhibition by 2-oxoglutarate; it does not affect deadenylylation activity. The other form, PII-DA, stimulates adenylylation only if glutamine is present, and also stimulates the deadenylylation activity of PI, which is then dependent upon the presence of ATP and 2-oxoglutarate. Conversion of PII-AT to PII-DA requires the presence of UTP, ATP, and 2-oxoglutarate; it is catalyzed by an enzyme present in PI preparations. UTP may be directly involved in this conversion since PII-DA fractions reisolated by filtration through Sephadex G-100 contain small quantities of a bound uridine derivative that lacks the γ-phosphoryl group of UTP. The activity of PII-DA, but not of PII-AT, is destroyed by treatment with snake-venom phosphodiesterase. ATP and 2-oxoglutarate apparently function as allosteric effectors for the conversion of PII-AT to PI-DA.

Keywords: E. coli, protein-bound uridine nucleotide, adenylyltransferase, 2-oxoglutarate, cascade regulation

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