title: Inactivation of liver 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase by phenylglyoxal. Evidence for essential arginine residues.
abstract: Treatment of liver 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase with the arginine-specific reagent, phenylglyoxal, irreversibly inactivated both 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase and fructose-6-bisphosphatase in a time-dependent and dose-dependent manner. Fructose 6-phosphate protected against 2,6-phosphofructo-2-kinase inactivation, whereas MgGTP protected against fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase inactivation. Semi-logarithmic plots of the time course of inactivation by different phenylglyoxal concentrations were non-linear, suggesting that more than one arginine residue was modified. The stoichiometry of phenylglyoxal incorporation indicated that at least 2 mol/mol enzyme subunit were incorporated. Enzyme which had been phosphorylated by cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase was inactivated to a lesser degree by phenylglyoxal, suggesting that the serine residue (Ser32) phosphorylated by cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase interacts with a modified arginine residue. Chymotryptic cleavage of the modified protein and microsequencing showed that Arg225, in the 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase domain, was one of the residues modified by phenylglyoxal. The protection by fructose 6-phosphate against the labelling of chymotryptic fragments containing Arg225, suggests that this residue is involved in fructose 6-phosphate binding in the 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase domain of the bifunctional enzyme.
authors.affiliation: Hormone and Metabolic Research Unit, International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Rider
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hue
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002918:Chymotrypsin; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology; D010658:Phenylglyoxal / Q000494:pharmacology*; D025481:Phosphofructokinase-2; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D001120:Arginine; D010770:Phosphotransferases; D025481:Phosphofructokinase-2; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; D002918:Chymotrypsin; D010658:Phenylglyoxal