title: Identification of separate acyl- CoA:glycine and acyl-CoA:L-glutamine N-acyltransferase activities in mitochondrial fractions from liver of rhesus monkey and man.
abstract: The conjugation of glycine to benzoates and the conjugation of L-glutamine to certain arylacetates are catalyzed by two different acyl-CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferases which can be purified separately from liver mitochondrial fractions of either rhesus monkey or man. In both species, one transferase is specific for glycine and the other for L-glutamine. The glycine enzyme utilizes either butyryl-CoA or benzoyl-CoA as acyl donors while the glutamine enzyme uses either phenylacetyl-CoA or indoleacetyl-CoA. Acyl-CoA substrates for one transferase do not serve as substrates for the other. Additional studies with the monkey liver enzymes revealed that acyl-CoA substrates for one transferase inhibit the other, that the apparent Km value is low (10(-6) to 10(-5) M range) for the preferred acyl-CoA substrate as compared to the amino acid acceptor (greater than 10(-2) M) and that both transferases have a molecular weight of approximately 24,000. Hippuric acid and either phenylacetylglutamine or indoleacetylglutamine were characterized as the products formed by the separate enzymes.
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D003065:Coenzyme A; D005973:Glutamine; D005998:Glycine; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D051379:Mice; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D005973:Glutamine; D000217:Acyltransferases; D003065:Coenzyme A; D005998:Glycine