title: Incubations of testis myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase with D-(5-18O)glucose 6-phosphate and with H218O show no evidence of Schiff base formation.
abstract: myo-Inositol-1-P synthase (EC 5.5.1.4) purified from rat testis and from bovine testis was allowed to react with D-[5-18O]glucose-6-P. myo-Inositol, obtained in these reactions, retained all of the 18O originally in the glucose-6-P. When these enzyme preparations were incubated with unlabeled glucose-6-P in a medium enriched in H2 18O no uptake of the oxygen isotope occurred that could be ascribed to the myo-inositol-1-P synthase reaction. By these criteria this enzyme, which is considered to use an aldolase mechanism in the cyclization step, cannot form a Schiff base during the reaction. In addition, these enzymes are not inhibited by 10 mM EDTA. One interpretation of this evidence is that the myo-inositol-1-P synthases we have studied are neither Class I nor Class II aldolases, and simply use base catalysis in the cyclization step.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002238:Carbohydrate Epimerases / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D003903:Deuterium; D005958:Glucosephosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D008297:Male; D007296:Myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Synthase / Q000378:metabolism*; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D051381:Rats; D012545:Schiff Bases; D013045:Species Specificity; D013737:Testis / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D005958:Glucosephosphates; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D012545:Schiff Bases; D003903:Deuterium; D002238:Carbohydrate Epimerases; D007296:Myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Synthase