title: The kinetic mechanisms of the bifunctional enzyme aspartokinase-homoserine dehydrogenase I from Escherichia coli.
abstract: The kinetic mechanisms of the reactions catalyzed by the two catalytic domains of aspartokinase-homoserine dehydrogenase I from Escherichia coli have been determined. Initial velocity, product inhibition, and dead-end inhibition studies of homoserine dehydrogenase are consistent with an ordered addition of NADPH and aspartate beta-semialdehyde followed by an ordered release of homoserine and NADP+. Aspartokinase I catalyzes the phosphorylation of a number of L-aspartic acid analogues and, moreover, can utilize MgdATP as a phosphoryl donor. Because of this broad substrate specificity, alternative substrate diagnostics was used to probe the kinetic mechanism of this enzyme. The kinetic patterns showed two sets of intersecting lines that are indicative of a random mechanism. Incorporation of these results with the data obtained from initial velocity, product inhibition, and dead-end inhibition studies at pH 8.0 are consistent with a random addition of L-aspartic acid and MgATP and an ordered release of MgADP and beta-aspartyl phosphate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Ohio 44325-3601.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Angeles
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Viola
mesh_terms: D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D001225:Aspartokinase Homoserine Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical
chemical_list: D001224:Aspartic Acid; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D001225:Aspartokinase Homoserine Dehydrogenase