title: [Coenzyme-binding sites of the brain pyruvate dehydrogenase complex].
abstract: It is shown that the relative amount of the holoenzyme in the highly purified pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from the bovine brain is higher when the enzyme activity is assayed in the reaction of nonoxidative formation of acetaldehyde as compared to the pyruvate: NAD+ reductase reaction. The S0.5 values for thiamine pyrophosphate are as following: (TPP) (0.314 +/- 0.22) x 10(-7) M with reaction of nonoxidative formation of acetaldehyde, (0.188 +/- 0.08) x 10(-6) M and (1.65 +/- 1.16) x 10(-6) M in case of the pyruvate: NAD+ reductase reaction. TPP in the concentration of (0.5-6.0) x 10(-7) M completely protects the sites of nonoxidative formation of acetaldehyde from modification by the coenzyme analogs, 4'-oxythiamine pyrophosphate and tetrahydrothiamine pyrophosphate. However, the pyruvate: NAD+ reductase activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is inhibited in this case by 30-34%. The data obtained suggest that in contrast to the pyruvate: NAD+ reductase reaction the conversion of pyruvate to acetaldehyde occurs by the sites which tightly bound TPP.
authors.forename: Iu M
authors.initials: IuM
authors.lastname: Ostrovskiĭ
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Nemeria
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Zabrodskaia
authors.forename: D Iu
authors.initials: DIu
authors.lastname: Gerashchenko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D002417:Cattle; D011485:Protein Binding; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex / Q000378:metabolism*; D013835:Thiamine Pyrophosphate / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex; D013835:Thiamine Pyrophosphate
vernacular_title: Izuchenie kofermentsviazyvaiushchikh tsentrov piruvatdegidrogenaznogo kompleksa mozga.