title: Differential binding of NAD+ to acyl glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and its role in the acyl group transfer reaction.
abstract: Enzyme protein fluorescence of di-furylacryloyl-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (di-FA-GPDH:lambda max.excitation 290 nm, lambda max.emission 338 nm) is quenched about 28% on saturation with NAD+. Results of fluorometric titration of di-FA-GPDH with NAD+ suggest the presence of two tight and two loose coenzyme binding sites (Kdiss. 0.1 and 6.0 microM, respectively). Initial rates of the NAD(+)-dependent reaction of di-FA-GPDH with arsenate and phosphate and of mono-FA-GPDH with phosphate have been determined at varying coenzyme concentrations. The data suggest that binding of NAD+ at the tight sites does not activate the acyl group for its reaction with the acceptor (phosphate or arsenate). The group transfer reaction is dependent only on NAD+ binding to the loose sites, which carry the acyl group. The large difference in the NAD+ binding affinity to the two types of sites and their different effects on the group transfer reaction impart a sigmoidal shape to the rate versus [NAD+] plots. The sigmoidicity is abolished if the reactive SH groups at the unacylated sites are blocked by carboxymethylation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Malhotra
mesh_terms: D000215:Acylation; D001665:Binding Sites; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009243:NAD; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases