Purification and characterization of the D-alanyl-D-alanine-adding enzyme from Escherichia coli.
The Escherichia coli D-alanyl-D-alanine-adding enzyme, which catalyzes the final cytoplasmic step in the biosynthesis of the bacterial peptidoglycan precursor UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-meso-diaminopimelyl-D-Ala-D- Ala, has been purified to homogeneity from an E. coli strain that harbors a recombinant plasmid bearing the structural gene for this enzyme, murF. The enzyme is a monomer of molecular weight 49,000, and it has a turnover number of 784 min-1 for ATP-driven amide bond formation. Experiments monitoring the fate of radiolabeled UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-meso-2,6-diaminopimelate and D-trifluoroalanine proved that the preceding enzyme in the D-alanine branch pathway, D-alanine:D-alanine ligase (ADP), is capable of synthesizing fluorinated dipeptides, which the D-Ala-D-Ala-adding enzyme can then incorporate to form UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-meso-2,6-diaminopimelyl-D-++ +trifluoroAla-D- trifluoroAla.
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Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002268:Carboxypeptidases / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004151:Dipeptides / Q000378:metabolism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010453:Peptide Synthases / Q000378:metabolism; D046929:Serine-Type D-Ala-D-Ala Carboxypeptidase; D014538:Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism
D004151:Dipeptides; D014538:Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid; C002225:UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid pentapeptide; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; D046929:Serine-Type D-Ala-D-Ala Carboxypeptidase; D010453:Peptide Synthases; C019638:D-alanylalanine synthetase